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TL
Verified reviewer
Design, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed March 2021
Best PSA software
Ruddr has saved me hours each week on generating invoices. I can also see where all my time is being spent, and the intuitive charts/graphs are extremely helpful in managing my project workload. The design is top notch and everything “just works” — the adoption as the primary tool for managing projects was seamless. Game changer from my old system of Excel files.
PROSThe UX and QuickBooks integration were a game changer for my small business, everything is intuitive and just works
CONSRuddr appears to be a rapidly growing platform, from their support emails they are continually adding more features but there are a few specific enhancements I’ve requested that are in the dev pipeline
Reason for choosing Ruddr
simplicity, data-driven charts, and invoicing integration
Reasons for switching to Ruddr
Integration for tracking time and segmenting billable hours — great visibility into managing projects and seeing where my time was actually being spent. can’t imagine NOT using Ruddr now.
Vendor Response
Thanks for this review TL! We are adding features on a weekly basis. Customers like you are helping shape the product with their feedback.
Replied March 2021
Michael
Environmental Services, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed December 2022
Best project management program for Environmental Consulting
We had been using Quickbooks projects and Quickbooks time but the features were lacking. We tried Bigtime which was heavy on the sales pitch and had 0 customer service help. When we connected with Ruddr we were given a free demo, direct access to the customer support team, and no up front cost. This allowed us to make a decision based on the quality of their product and not the demands of a contract and a forced sales approach. We have been on for only a few months and every time I have a question we get an answer in a few hours.
PROSThis is a fantastic and easy-to-use software with an amazing price point. The modern feel and ease of quick integration with Quickbooks make this a true winner for small consulting firms.
CONSIt really has no faults for our needs. My only faults would be a wish list of features like an online app, and more branding opportunities.
Reason for choosing Ruddr
The lack of a true trial in some of the other products and the fact that they required a large upfront cost that was nonrefundable was a turnoff on other products. Ruddr gives you a real trial and you pay only for what your needs are at the time you need them. As a small company, we fluctuate in size as we work with multiple contractors. We only pay for the seat when we have those people employed and we turn it off when they are nonactive and are not billed for the seat.
Reasons for switching to Ruddr
Bigtime has the worst customer service experience I have ever seen in mid-market software.
Lydia
Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed April 2021
Good experience, wish more people could approve hours
Easy to use, functions quite well. Easy to track hours
CONSMore people should be able to approve hours
Vendor Response
Thanks for your review and feedback Lydia. We have additional time/expense approvers and approval workflow on our roadmap. We will get those built into Ruddr just as soon as we can!
Replied April 2021
Mike
Marketing and Advertising, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed December 2020
Awesome UX and Slack Integration
For my team, Ruddr was a big step up from the simple time trackers we have tried in the past. It is more of a professional services automation platform but it doesn't have the big price tag. I love that we only have to pay for our billable personnel. This allows our administrative folks to access the platform and all the data but they just can't record billable time to client projects.
PROSOur agency has tried several different time/expense trackers over the years. Most had a clumsy user experience. Also, the basic time trackers don't provide all of the information I need to run the business. What I like about Ruddr is 1) the user experience is super clean and simple; 2) the Slack integration is better than any other PSA product I tested; 3) I don't have to pay for non-billable users; and 4) the reports and metrics are much better than what I was getting with basic time/expense trackers.
CONSIt could use some more integrations with modern SaaS products. I currently use the Slack and QuickBooks integrations and those work great. But, I'd like to integrate with a few more products that my team uses every day.
Reason for choosing Ruddr
The user experience, Slack integration, and pricing model were much more attractive with Ruddr.
Reasons for switching to Ruddr
Harvest's Slack integration is fairly basic. Also, it is missing some key metrics and reports that I need to run our agency (like billable utilization rate). Harvest feels like it is meant for small firms but we are trying to grow!
Vendor Response
Thanks so much for this feedback. We have a list of integrations that we will be building out over the next several months. We appreciate your business!
Replied December 2020
Daniel
Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2021
Great product and service
It's been great. It's an easy tool with NO workarounds that we needed to utilize. With functionality that we needed that was not present in the base application, [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] was great in understanding our need and getting what we needed.
PROSIt had over 95% of the functionality we were looking for without having to customize or use workarounds for employee time entry and for invoicing
CONSThere were a few items around the timesheet and invoicing functions that were critical to us. They were not there, but Ruddr has been very responsive to our needs
Reason for choosing Ruddr
Can't remember all the products we reviewed or investigated. Ruddr was the top product choice for us based on functionality
Reasons for switching to Ruddr
Homebase was geared more toward food or general labor services that require clock in and clock out. We had so many work arounds which was fine for a small need, but as our business grew, Homebase just couldn't meet our needs. It was cheaper vs Ruddr but we had to make the change
Vendor Response
Thanks Dan, we appreciate your business and these comments. We will continue to be responsive to your team's needs as we rapidly evolve the product over the months and years ahead.
Replied April 2021
Ryan
Design, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed April 2021
Great reporting, time tracking can be easier
Our account team needed better reporting on usage and efficiency of our creative teams, and Ruddr seems to tackle reporting and dashboards with more effectiveness than the competitors that we considered.
CONSIt really needs to be easier for our employees to track their time. After using Harvest for years, our team misses the toolbar feature they have for quick time tracking. We are waiting with baited breath for something similar from Ruddr.
Reasons for switching to Ruddr
We preferred the reporting features that Ruddr offers to better manage the efficiency of the agency and each individual.
Vendor Response
Thanks for this feedback Ryan! We have the MacOS native app on our road map and we'll also be developing iOS and Android apps as well. We will get these important features built just as soon as possible!
Replied April 2021
Mark
Information Services, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed July 2021
Selected Ruddr after evaluating 4 other competitors
Customer service was ridiculously good. While onboarding, worked with me over the July 4th weekend. They paid attention and demonstrated that they are a new and hungry player in the Pro Serv ERP game. From my evaluation / assessment time I know that none of the competitors were going to pay attention to us like they did
PROSThe price to feature ratio is ridiculous for this product when compared to its competitors. The critical features for me were project expense and time tracking, burn rate management, monthly budgets, project budgets, roles budgets and task budgets.
CONSResource planning and new budget features are not there yet, but coming late July. Timing works for us. Wish they had project management ala SmartSheets or MS Project or integrations with those. Also wish the open API was published. These are coming later in the year.
Reason for choosing Ruddr
Price to value ratio and customer service
Vendor Response
Thanks for this detailed review! We will have resource planning and budget analysis released this month. Our public API will be coming a bit later.
Replied July 2021
Michelle
Accounting, 1 employee
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2021
Makes My Invoicing Breakdown Easy
Very good experience. [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] in tech support is very informative and helpful.
PROSI like how I can break down the client, then project, and then task and track my time. I also like the integration with Quickbooks Online for easy invoicing and payment receipt.
CONSI haven't had any issues with the software.
Reason for choosing Ruddr
I like the ease of use with Ruddr much more.
Vendor Response
Thanks Michelle! We appreciate your feedback. We take a lot of pride in giving our customers an unmatched level of customer support. We look forward to continuing to work with you!
Replied April 2021
Ji
Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2021
Recording work time is fast and easy on Ruddr!
So far has been amazing! The [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] of Ruddr even had a Zoom meeting with us to walk through all the features. The software itself has a very modern design, and very user-friendly, I guess their team must have done many user testing at the early phase of the development.
PROSI like the way Ruddr allows me to record my work time by just input a couple of numbers. For example, if I worked for 4 hours and 30 mins, I just need to input 4.5. Ruddr is easy to use and fast, also very intuitive that it only took me 30 mins to grab the basic features that I need for my job.
CONSJust some small things, I wish some of the text colors can be darker, so it will be easy to scan fast.
Vendor Response
Thanks for your review Ji! We appreciate your feedback and continued support. In terms of some of the text color, we are regularly testing out small tweaks to colors and font sizes. We will improve the readability as we experiment with these options.
Replied April 2021
Anonymous
201-500 employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2021
Ease of Use blows away competition
Simple, easy to use, does what we need. Most importantly I think end users will find it more pleasing to work with since they have to touch it at least weekly.
PROSFor products like this, ease of use is critical. This category of software is often a pain for users because it is critical (they have to use it) but the experience is often so bad they end up hating it. Seems like they had the opportunity with new tech to design the experience from the ground up "the way it should be". Reporting is also a huge plus.
CONSIntegration wasn't hard but we are sub 500 FTEs
Vendor Response
Thank you for your feedback! We will continue to keep a simple User Experience as a guiding principle as we add features to Ruddr over the months and years ahead.
Replied April 2021
Jonathan
Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed April 2021
Ruddr Review (The ABM Agency)
Ease of use, relatively intuitive and great product support to help with ramp up/onboarding to the larger team.
CONSThere are some quality of life type features / functionality where Ruddr is lacking that I think could go a long way with stepping it up to the next level. Mostly around items that would be efficiency gains when filling out timesheets and creating similar products or tasks. Also notable, Ruddr seems to be greatly lacking when it comes to the ability to assign different approvers for particular employees' timesheets and/or assigning different approvers depending on the client and/or project. This seems like something that should be a "default" or natural feature when rolling a tool like this out. It should be expected that there will be more than one person that would need to be responsible for approving timesheets so having the ability to assign approver based on employee and project/task should absolutely be incorporated as soon as possible.
Vendor Response
Thanks for this feedback Jonathan! We will work hard to satisfy these product gaps for you. We do currently have the ability to clone a project as well as a project task. In terms of approvals, we just added a client approval in addition to our internal approval. So, you can now send a time/expense approval to a client for approval before invoicing. In terms of multiple time approvers and approval workflow, that is on our road map. We will get that built into the product as quickly as we can!
Replied April 2021
David
Computer Software, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed January 2021
An intuitive and nimble PSA
I needed a way to log and track time against projects and send an invoice to my client. Ruddr does this seamlessly.
PROSWith a modern and fresh interface, Ruddr has up-leveled what an expected UI/UX should be for PSA software. It has all the core features you'd expect for logging time entries and billing customers.
CONSNot much to dislike. The software has just launched (at the time of this review) so I'm confident that additionally expected features will roll out over time to complete the solution (i.e. integrations, advanced reporting).
Vendor Response
Thanks David! Our road map for this year includes several additional reports and integrations. Once we get those into production, we'd love to get any additional feedback you might have on them.
Replied January 2021
Christy
Information Technology and Services, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2021
Excellent Product and Customer Service
Our overall experience with Ruddr has been fantastic. [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] is extremely helpful and very quick to respond back to any questions that we may have.
PROSThe software is extremely easy to use. The invoices are perfect for what we need for our clients.
CONSThere were a few changes that we questioned if they could be made. The Ruddr team jumped right one it and has made the software work for our company. They are quick with changes and listen to their clients on what would be nice to haves.
Vendor Response
Thanks for your review Christy! The NXT Level Technologies team has provided helpful feedback that has led to several new features in Ruddr. We look forward to continuing to improve the product with you!
Replied April 2021
Anonymous
1 employee
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2021
Fabulous software for very low price
This is the sole software I use to track my time/projects and invoice clients.
PROSI really like that I can track hourly or fixed fee products. I like how easy it is to use. I can create clients, projects and budgets with just a few button clicks. There's even a timer if I want to just start and stop the clock to track my time.
CONSNothing so far! I wish they also had an accounting software, I'd use that too!
Vendor Response
Thanks for your review! While Ruddr isn't an accounting package, it does have a great integration with QuickBooks Online. You can create invoices in Ruddr that automatically publish to QuickBooks. Also, any updates to the invoice (or payment) in QuickBooks will immediately be reflected in Ruddr.
Replied March 2021
Justin
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2021
Must have for our business
Having the insight into our projects and business has been invaluable and the team at Ruddr is the definition of responsive!
PROSThis tool provides the insights into our business that ensures we are making the right business choices. Profitability, utilization, invoices, expenses, it does it all.
CONSIf you are new to the services business this tool might seem like overkill with the configuration options. Start simple and grow into the tool, you'll think yourself later.
Vendor Response
Thanks Justin, this is great feedback and we truly appreciate your business! We are excited to make Ruddr even better for your team over the months and years ahead.
Replied April 2021
Griffin
Packaging and Containers, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed May 2021
Simple yet effective
I enjoyed the ease of switching through projects in the timing section of the software. The data feedback has been invaluable for our company and has helped us see where we are actually spending our time and resources.
CONSThere was a bit of a learning curve, especially with others whom I trained on the product. However, after several days everyone had the methods down.
Vendor Response
Thanks for your review Griffin! We have some features on our product roadmap that should make Ruddr even easier to learn in the near future. We will keep working to make the product better and better for your team at Craft!
Replied May 2021
Mariah
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed April 2021
Ruddr is a Great and Easy Solution for Time Management and for Capturing Utilization
Overall a great experience and I hope to continue using Ruddr in the future.
PROSI appreciate the ease of reviewing utilization and timesheets in one spot. It makes it easy for engineers who just need to get in and submit time and get out. I also appreciate the connection to Quickbooks so timesheets don't need to be sent back and forth via email. Its a one stop shop for us, which we greatly appreciate!
CONSOnly item I wish it had is an integration with google drive so we can upload files/documents to specific projects.
Reasons for switching to Ruddr
We were using excel spreadsheets before (and still currently are as we make our decision) but its not the fastest or most effective way to get peoples time and capture their utilization
Vendor Response
Thanks Mariah! We will be adding Google Drive integration (along with other cloud storage providers). We will let you know just as soon as that integration is live and ready!
Replied April 2021
Kristi
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT