Asana vs FunctionFox: 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.

Speaker 1: I am Jaydra and I am the president and owner of a forensic accounting firm and a tax accounting practice, and I give FunctionFox five out of five. Before using FunctionFox, we were using QuickBooks Time and we switched to FunctionFox from that. In the process of making the decision, we considered several other options and ultimately landed on FunctionFox. We chose FunctionFox ultimately because it was the least complicated of all of the options. It had a simple, easy to use format that was really intuitive and didn't have excess clutter or extra steps that didn't have any added value to the using of the software. And because it's an online application, so it can be accessed from anywhere at any time, either on the mobile app or through the web app. And it doesn't matter what kind of software system you have. If you have the internet, you can access FunctionFox. Getting started with FunctionFox was really great. The onboarding was a wonderful experience. We got assigned a person from FunctionFox who walked us through the whole process of transferring data over if we wanted to do that, and getting all of our users set up and assigning them permissions so that we could have the admin folks with their admin permissions and all of my staff with their regular employee permissions. And then we also used it for a couple of weeks and then had another session with the onboarding assistant person who walked us through some of the challenges that we've been having and helped us learn how to use this software in ways that we didn't understand before. For anyone else who's considering using FunctionFox, I highly recommend it and I would offer to you that one of my favorite things about FunctionFox is that my staff loves it. So as a business owner, it's important to have tools that are functional and that work all the time without giving you a lot of weird technical blips and also that are easy for your staff to pick up and use without having to spend a whole lot of time training them on the intricacies or particularities of a product. And it also saves a whole bunch of time because you can drill down three levels into the timekeeping that you're doing. So within each type of project that you're working, you can assign preset tasks that are common. So if you don't want to have to continuously type the same note over and over again if you're checking email or calling clients or reviewing documents or something that you'd have to type over and over again, it's nice that you can just pick that from a dropdown list when you're using FunctionFox.