Asana vs Filestage: 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.

Rick: Hi, my name is Rick. I'm director of sales, and I give Filestage a five out of five. For more information, check the links below. Before we used Filestage, we were using combination of emails, text messages, and Dropbox to try and get approvals and share content with our staff internally and with our customers. There were a lot of reasons we ended up going with Filestage, but I guess the big ones were that it was really easy for our clients to understand, b, there was a history of all the revisions and changes and requests, and then I guess the third one was that there was a definitive approval. You've got to click the button to signify that something is approved. So there was no ambiguity in terms of the wording with emails going back and forth or with multiple email streams. Somebody was designated as the lead for our clients, and once they clicked on the button that was approved, we knew it was approved. Getting started with Filestage was it two-step process. Getting started itself was really easy. I mean, they make the onboarding process as simple as you want it to be. If you can craft an email, then you can get it going. If you can upload to your favorite website, you're going with Filestage. The integration, we can make it as deep and as complex as you wanted it to be. So with integration, we started... I guess really, the first week that we've had under the paid program, we were beginning to integrate with it, and it's kind of like an onion. Every week, we find another use for it, another way to plug it in to another application. So the integration has never stopped. We were just finding better ways to work Filestage into our process. The biggest recommendation I have is that if you're having trouble getting in touch with your clients and getting definitive answers for them, give this a try. I mean, it's one of those platforms that got a great free trial. I know that people don't like to start something and then sort of get part way into it and then move out. Dive in. You're going to find out that you like it, and if you're just a little bit iffy as to whether or not you want to pay the monthly fee, once you've been using this for a week or two, you'll find out that your return on investment is one day. The amount of time that it saves you in getting work through on your very first project with your very first customer, it's paid for that entire monthly subscription.