Retain Resource Planning 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Retain Resource Planning

4.4

(20)

Pricing

Starting at £15.00 per month

About Retain Resource Planning

Access real-time information from across your business in multiple locations, improve processing time to respond faster to new resource demands from clients and enhance the way you match people with specific tasks to deliver exceptional experiences.

Balance supply and demand and maximise your margins however large your workforce gets with effective forecasting, business planning and insight-driven decision making from a single, comprehensive view.

Plan for future workstreams and scale operations by carrying out training and recruitment to meet client demand. Keep employees motivated to develop and succeed and achieve optimal billable utilisation for more balanced workloads and a healthier work/life balance.

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Retain Resource Planning Pricing and Plans

Starting price: £15.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

£15.00

per user, per month

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Retain Resource Planning Features

Popular features found in Resource Management
Calendar Management
Collaboration Tools
Forecasting
Multiple Projects
Project Planning
Reporting/Project Tracking
Task Management
Time & Expense Tracking
Utilization Reporting
More features of Retain Resource Planning
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Dashboard
Activity Tracking
Alerts/Notifications
API
Approval Process Control
Assignment Management
Attendance Management
Attendance Tracking
Budgeting/Forecasting
Budget Management
Capacity Management
Commenting/Notes
Competency Management
Customizable Branding
Customizable Fields
Customizable Reports
Data Import/Export
Document Management
Document Storage
Drag & Drop
Employee Database
Employee Profiles
Employee Scheduling
File Sharing
Gantt/Timeline View
Labor Forecasting
Milestone Tracking
Mobile Access
Monitoring
Percent-Complete Tracking
Performance Management
Prioritization
Projections
Project Planning/Scheduling
Project Templates
Real-Time Data
Real-Time Notifications
Real-Time Reporting
Real-Time Updates
Reminders
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & Statistics
Resource Allocation & Planning
Resource Management
Resource Request
Resource Scheduling
Role-Based Permissions
Search/Filter
Self Service Portal
Sick Leave Tracking
Skills Tracking
Third-Party Integrations
Time & Attendance
Time Off Management
Time Off Requests
Timesheet Management
Vacation/Leave Tracking
Workflow Management

Retain Resource Planning Integrations

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Retain Resource Planning User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.4

Ratings Breakdown

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40%

10%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.3

Value for money

4.4

Customer support

4.2

Functionality

4.1

Have you used Retain Resource Planning and would like to share your experience with others?

Verified

Reviewer

Telecommunications

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed August 2019

Retain - Trusted and user friendly resource planner

Retain Resource Planning application helps me utilize resources at the organization I work and lets me manage resources for the future. I was never disappointed with Retain.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Retain is an amazing resource planning software I found recently. And I loved it from the first use. It helps me plan future work at our organization very easily like no other planner has done. I like the user friendly interface very much and how it is available as a desktop application, web application and a mobile app. I love how customizable it is and it also support multiple currencies.

Cons:

I have not experienced any cons so far. It's a highly reliable product.

Reasons for switching to Retain Resource Planning

Because my previous resource planner gave me errors and was not reliable when I needed it

Vendor Response

Thank you for your feedback, it is great to hear that you love our product. We are always looking to make improvements, so if you do have any suggestions please contact us at info@retaininternational.com

Replied September 2022

Tanya R.

Verified reviewer

Accounting

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2021

Can't imagine not using Retain

Before Retain, we used an excel tracker for staffing. Everyone entered this information differently, which posed issues for accurate reporting. Retain has allowed me not only to compile and display this data in multiple views and functions. It has allowed accurate and timely reporting to upper management and is now serving as the main tool in our workflow planning meetings, enabling myself and management to make staffing decisions based on live and accurate data.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Retain is the resource management tool I needed to be proactive in planning and forecasting staffing solutions. Plans view is the selling point for me. Being able to see all the staff jobs planned on a calendar is what led me to decide to implement Retain at my firm rather than other resource management software. The Skills feature is allowing a small firm like FK to hone in on Staff's skills and thus finding the perfect "fit" when staffing a job using this feature.

Cons:

I dislike when I am in the middle of reviewing someones plans and I get timed out. Or when there are additional upgrades to the software, and all my settings and features have been restored to factory. Another thing that could be improved on is bringing additional editing shortcuts from Retain Wallchart to Retain Cloud. The ability to crop and resize bookings is something that I am missing in my day to day handling of staff's plans.

Reasons for choosing Retain Resource Planning

It came down to ease of use, reliability and customer care. Retain was leaps and bounds ahead with all of the above, while still providing superior software.

Vendor Response

Thanks for your feedback, Tanya. Sorry to hear that you are having a problem with timeouts. We are aware that this is an issue and unfortunately a number of external factors unrelated to Retain can cause issues with timeouts. We are investigating root causes on this issue. Please contact us on info@retaininternational.com so that we can discuss your specific issue further. As part of our Roadmap for cloud we are adding additional functionality to Retain Cloud planner. This includes improved planner functionality to support better selection, block copy, cut/split bookings & view rotations between jobs and resources.

Replied September 2022

Eric M.

Verified reviewer

Accounting

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed August 2022

Retain should look to transform from resource management to experience management

Using Retain is like going to the dentist. You know you have to go, but are not excited about it.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The Search feature is most impactful and the Table View is easier to use.

Cons:

The reporting feature is nothing more than a means to dump raw data in MS Excel. The reporting comes after our experience managers manipulate the data into actionable information.

Isaac T.

Verified reviewer

Utilities

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2024

Resourceful Platform for Project and Tasks Planning

Retain Resource is integral in brings suitable mechanisms of managing all the resources in a business

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The program brings organization to all the business resources that companies have, and accurate allocation is done.

Cons:

The software has made consistent assistance in managing resources.

Dan H.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed April 2024

Hits the mark!

Overall, Retain has driven greater and more immidiate visibility of engagements and utilisation right across the workforce. The focus and attention from the customer service team has been almost immediate throughout and all issues have been professionally and succesfully dealt with.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The ability to have a real time view of the workforce provides critical actionable insight at a management level, whilst also assisting our team leaders in accurately managing existing deployments and planning for upcoming epeak and troughs.

Cons:

The scrolling function takes some time to get used to.

Tram D.

Verified reviewer

Financial Services

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed August 2022

Retain's Review

Overall, our experience with product Retain Cloud (Web version) is fine. I used to use Retain Wallchart (App version) previously in PwC Vietnam then I could recognized the enhancement as well as disadvantages of Retain Cloud. The good points of this product are some reports can perform like Power BI, users (at manager level) can customized their view and all users can access the system from any devices. As for the drawbacks, we noticed that your technical teams have done all their best to enhance the functionalities gradually. BDO Singapore separately sent them some requests and got their feedbacks very fast (except for some still in consideration to develop in future :), and we still keep following up on that )

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The color pallets - It's really helpful for us to definite the booking's types, engagements manager and bookings purposes. Secondly, granting user access to the Retain Cloud is easily and conveniently.

Cons:

The reporting functions does not work well per our expectation. We appreciated the efforts of supporting team for their fast actions on our requests. However, currently we often use only 3-4 in total 20 types of designed templated. Our resource team will work more with Retain Supporting team on this matters on a later date.

Vendor Response

Thank you Tram for your review. The colour themes are designed to provide some meaning to your resource planning data and so it is good that you have discovered this very important feature. Resource management is very visual and the planner views can get very busy and so this was one of the reasons we included colour themes in the early releases. Please feel free to leave your ideas on our Ideas portal: https://retain.ideas.aha.io/

Replied October 2022

Eugene T.

Verified reviewer

Automotive

10000+ employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Reviewed November 2021

Easy to Use

Our organization uses only the basic functions of Retain Planner. This is partly because the users aren't interested in the additional features. However, it could also be argued that if the intermediate/advanced features were more intuitive and easier to use, the users may be more inclined to try them out.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Our organization uses only the basic functions of Retain Planner. For that purpose, we find Retain Planner to be very easy to pick up and use.

Cons:

For the intermediate features (e.g. Reports), usage is somewhat less intuitive and workarounds are often needed. For this, we need support from more experienced internal users or Retain technical support.

Rahim L.

Verified reviewer

Financial Services

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed August 2022

CPAB Review

We have used the on prem version for many years and have migrated to the could platform. Generally the product does we we need it to do.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The new version is on the cloud. THe GUI is easy to use. Very little training required for staff.

Cons:

We wish the product has more out of the box reporting. Visual reports that look just like the dashboard.

Vendor Response

Many thanks for your feedback about your experiences using the Retain Cloud platform. One of our initial goals with the newer cloud platform was around low-touch and self-sufficiency and so it is good to hear that post-implementation that you have got up and running. Our reporting capability is being enhanced in each quarterly release where we enable more data to be reported on. Please look out for our release notes that will summarise the key changes and speak to us if you require any help. Please feel free to leave your ideas on our Ideas portal: https://retain.ideas.aha.io/

Replied October 2022

Ciaran B.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed November 2021

Easy to use, logical software

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I have Taken over the the Retain admin for my company about a year and a half ago and have found it a very easy software to pick up. It is easy to use and very logical. There are so many customizable fields that we can use for anything and the support have been great at helping me get used to the tool. We have it tailor made for our business now and I think it does a great job at helping us manage our resources and bookings

Cons:

There's some annoying bugs that happen in our retain that are very hard to get to the bottom of, for some example every now and again we will get triplicate bookings during our SAP import and the next day (import) it will correct itself. It's hard to identify and the root cause for little things sometimes

Vendor Response

Thank you for your feedback, it is great to hear that you have found the software very intuitive and customisable, that is the experience we wanted to provide. Regarding the triplicated booking issues, I suspect this is an issue with your SAP integration. Please contact us at info@retaininternational.com so we can help you further.

Replied September 2022

Bas S.

Verified reviewer

Accounting

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Reviewed August 2022

Revieuw By Bas

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The constant updates and once the configurability.

Cons:

The lagg/slow scrolling. It is rather slow to use I have to admit. It also logs me out often during a day and it gives a lot of errors nowadays when planning with Roles(requests).

Vendor Response

Thanks for your feedback, Bas. Sorry to hear that you are having a problem with timeouts. We are aware that this is an issue; unfortunately, many external factors unrelated to Retain can cause issues with timeouts. We are investigating the root causes of this issue. Please contact us at info@retaininternational.com so that we can discuss your specific issue further.

Replied September 2022

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