What is Asana used for?

Asana is a work-management platform for projects, tasks, goals, portfolios, reporting and cross-team coordination.

Does Asana support client work?

Yes. Asana supports guests and markets client-management workflows, but it remains a general work platform rather than a studio system with proposals and invoices.

How is bettro different?

bettro is intentionally shaped for creative client work and joins the opportunity, proposal, project, meeting, time, update and invoice around one client.

Does Asana include time tracking?

Yes. Asana lists native time tracking, with exact availability depending on the plan.

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Alternatives Asana

An honest alternative

Looking for a Asana alternative?

Asana is pProjects, timelines and automation for coordinating work across teams — and for many teams that's exactly right. But if your studio's work starts where Asana's strengths end, it's worth looking at what a tool built for creative client work does differently.

Try bettro bettro vs Asana, side by side

Why studios start looking beyond Asana

Nobody switches tools for fun. Studios usually start shopping when the tool they have was built for a different operating model than the one they run. With Asana, that tends to sound like:

Built for a different centre of gravity
Asana's strength is pProjects, timelines and automation for coordinating work across teams. If your week revolves around client delivery rather than that, the fit starts to strain.
The client experience is an afterthought
Studios tell us clients end up seeing internal boards, threads or portals that were never designed for them — and the studio ends up translating.
Commercial and delivery live apart
Proposals, time and invoices in one place; projects and client conversations in another. Reconciling them becomes someone's part-time job.
You assemble the studio system yourself
General tools are flexible by design, which means the studio's operating model has to be built and maintained — cCompanies coordinating many teams and cross-team dependencies

What bettro does instead

bettro is a client workspace for creative studios: the relationship and the delivery in one place, with a client-facing side that's designed to be seen.

Your team works primarily for external clients
You want commercial records and delivery in the same product
Clients should see a purpose-built portal, not your internal workspace
A branded client portal, so clients see progress, files, decisions and invoices — never your internal workspace.
Leads, proposals, projects, meetings, time and invoices connected around one client record.

Switching from Asana: a checklist

Changing systems is mostly a data and workflow decision. Work through these before moving a live client.

1.Map custom fields, rules and dependencies before importing tasks
2.Separate internal project history from client-visible information
3.Identify portfolio and goal reporting that has no direct project equivalent
4.Run one client end-to-end in bettro before migrating the rest — the workflow differences show up fastest in real work.

Questions about leaving Asana

What is Asana used for?: Asana is a work-management platform for projects, tasks, goals, portfolios, reporting and cross-team coordination.
Does Asana support client work?: Yes. Asana supports guests and markets client-management workflows, but it remains a general work platform rather than a studio system with proposals and invoices.
How is bettro different?: bettro is intentionally shaped for creative client work and joins the opportunity, proposal, project, meeting, time, update and invoice around one client.
Does Asana include time tracking?: Yes. Asana lists native time tracking, with exact availability depending on the plan.

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