Autotask PSA

RATING:

4.3

(132)

About Autotask PSA

Autotask PSA is an IT business management platform consisting of a service desk, project management, account management, documentation management, time tracking and billing, contracts, resource management, inventory and procurement, and reporting. Autotask allows supervisors to configure workforce security levels and time off policies and use the dispatch calendar to handle service calls, to-do lists and appointments. The file protection portal lets administrators set up rules to handle data backups and file restoration, whilst maintaining compliance with HIPAA and SOC2 guidelines. Additionally, users can manage inventory across multiple locations and check item availability when creating new contracts, projects or tickets. Autotask facilitates integration with sever...

Autotask PSA Pricing

There’s no large upfront charge for the software and no expensive hardware to buy and maintain. You pay a low monthly fee for each user. In fact, in most cases the cost of Autotask is covered with the first wasted hour each user saves, or the first missed billable hour they capture each month with our software.

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Autotask PSA Reviews

Overall Rating

4.3

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4

Customer Support

4

Value for money

4

Functionality

4

Most Helpful Reviews for Autotask PSA

1 - 5 of 122 Reviews

Jeremey

11 - 50 employees

Used unspecified

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

Reviewed January 2024

A PSA That Doesn't Disappoint

User Profile

Garry

Verified reviewer

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed December 2017

We use it daily and couldn't live without it!

We run our entire business out of Autotask. It does everything for us as an MSP.

PROS

Autotask is about automation. It makes ticketing and billing processes standardized and automated. It has become our central repository for information. All service related issues, time spent, contracts, hardware, etc goes in there. I tell my team all the time, "If it doesn't exist in Autotask, it didn't happen."

CONS

Autotask support has historically been difficult, but is getting much better. Reporting is very powerful, but also VERY difficult to get your arms wrapped around it. It isn't something you do on a whim. If you have time to spend with it, you'll get good data. If you don't have time to spend, make sure you pay for some Autotask consulting time to help you.

Elizabeth

Information Technology and Services, 1 employee

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed September 2019

Great for Large Teams

Overall I enjoyed using the Autotask PSA for most things, but it was not a good fit for the team I was working with.

PROS

Autotask PSA is a great option for large teams. It is fully customizable, offers a wide array of features, and has an excellent, hands-on onboarding process. It is a great option for large teams.

CONS

This software required quite a bit of manual set up for tasks I needed -- things such as automatically sending emails to clients on ticket updates, changing fields from required to not required, etc. For a very small team, onboarding was a bit onerous.

Reason for choosing Autotask PSA

The RMM was the main draw, the fully integrated PSA was a perk.

Reasons for switching to Autotask PSA

The team was looking for a PSA that integrated with an RMM.

Steven

Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed August 2023

If ticket communications are critical, Autotask is woefully under developed.

Very frustrated our initial efforts to emphasise specific requirements around integrated messaging from tickets received assurances and poor demonstrations misleading our understanding of the numerous product limitations. Search functionality of the UI is also lacking and with no option to write or save your own queries we have to submit a feature request to community in the hope of just making common variables such as Website or Contract names accessible from the search form. The fact that Kaseya doesn't even use Autotask is definitely noteworthy.

PROS

The online chat support staff were both knowledgeable and accessible during regular business hours in New Zealand and in my opinion represent one of the more compelling values of the platform.

CONS

Email handling functions are woefully out of date. As an MSP providing contract ICT Support for customers it is absolutely essential that we be able to interact with third party vendors on matters related to numerous types of issues where the customer contact does not need to be involved. These issues can be related to licensing, security, cable contractors, etc. In my previous experience with other products such as Request Tracker, FreshDesk and FreshService, ZENdesk, and even Spiceworks, this has never been an issue -- all supported the basic feature of being able to email and receive a reply back as internal update on the ticket. I made concerted effort to spell this out as clearly as possible to during the initial pre-sales demos and was misled to believe Autotask wouldn't be a problem here. Now we are losing track of significant amounts of key communications being documented in our tickets because of this.

Reason for choosing Autotask PSA

Supposed quality of integration with other products.

User Profile

Kevin

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

3

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed June 2023

You get out what you put in

I use Autotask daily to manage projects, tickets, contracts and pull reports required to fulfil my duties. Other than Teams and Outlook, its the platform I rely on most. Autotask is infinitely customisable so almost any business problem can be solved. Workflows allow automated events from notifications to status changes to be configured based on an unlimited list of triggers. Contract management and time entries for billing are a critical component of what MSPs do everyday. We use APIs to solve problems that can't be solved inside Autotask.The project management module is under developed though. Its impossible to view project tasks in a Kanban view and Autotask lacks features common in other platforms to make managing agile projects simple. If Autotask hadn't been so deeply integrated in our organisation, I might well be using something else for managing our projects. The procurement module is similar. Its apparent that the majority of Autotask's development budget is spent on the ticket management system. The knowledgebase section works well, but lacks the UI to make it a go to location for storage of the entire business's knowledge. It would be great to see some AI integration to assist engineers to solve tickets by suggesting fixes based on KB articles.

PROS

Autotask provides a platform that covers almost everything required by an MSP that takes its business seriously. Its infinitely customisable and can be configured to do almost anything. The ticket management system is excellent and the integrated contract and time management features are indispensable for MSPs that sell many different services.

CONS

The user interface is outdated which can make the platform difficult to use and configure. The project management features in Autotask still feel neglected and lack many features now considered to be basic by modern standards. The procurement section is also cumbersome and lacks the flexibility needed by most businesses.