Asana vs Zapier: Which is a better fit?

Ellenore K.: My name is Ellenore. I'm an administrative assistant at Equipter, which is a manufacturing company with about 70 employees, and I would give Asana five stars. Well, we are mostly an in-person company, but we have three separate buildings that people are working in. It's a fairly large campus, and people are working in many different departments, and we needed a way to bring everybody's work together so we could all see what we're working on, be able to assign things to other people, and mostly just keep everyone on the same page, because without some kind of system like this, it's chaos. I think the biggest thing that I appreciate about Asana is the visibility that it gives me for other teams and for my team. I think without this, it's just me running around to people's desks, asking questions in different buildings, making sure that we're all understanding things. With Asana, it means that I sort of have eyes on what everyone is doing and can keep track of how I need to fit into that. We have had some limited issues with our dependencies on recurring tasks. We have a fairly substantial, a large task that happens about once a week, and for a while we had dependencies set up so that we couldn't move ahead too quickly in the process before the earlier tasks were done. After a couple of months of that working with one of the more recent updates, we lost the ability to do that. That's a little unfortunate. It's not a huge deal because the people who were involved know what has to happen first, but that was a nice feature that we liked that hasn't been working so well for us recently.

Allen E.: Hey, my name's Allen and I'm the president of a small rehab company and I give Zapier a five. Before using Zapier, I was doing a lot of manual work, just pulling data from one app to another and it depended on my employees being on top of things. Once I got Zapier implemented, it easily connects a lot of my apps together, automates a lot of my workflow. As soon as I enter data in one place, it populates multiple other apps and areas and reduces a lot of the redundancies and inefficiencies ahead of my company. Brought in Zapier because we were having a lot of inefficiencies as far as entering the same data in several different either Google Sheets or CRM or other places and keeping things in sync. When things would change in one software, we had to remember to change in another software and Zapier just simplified all that and automated it so all the data was synced across the apps and services that we use. Using Zapier was very easy to integrate and start using. It's very intuitive. It just asks you for which apps you want to connect, your login info, where the data is stored, what format you want it to be pulled and what data you want it to be inputted into the next app. It takes a couple minutes to set up each of those apps and pretty simple. If you're planning to try Zapier, they have a free trial. It doesn't hurt to just try it. I think you'll love it. I know there are other connectors out there. But Zapier I found to be just very easy, intuitive and they give you a lot, even on their free tier trial. But you're probably going to want to expand past that if you're going to be a heavy user.