What is Productive used for?

Productive is agency-management software for resourcing, project delivery, time, budgets, invoicing and profitability reporting.

Does Productive include resource planning?

Yes. Capacity, availability, workload and forecasting are prominent parts of its official product.

Which is simpler for a small creative studio?

bettro is intentionally narrower and client-centred. Productive is the stronger candidate when utilisation, resourcing and detailed financial reporting are essential.

Does Productive include invoicing?

Yes. Productive connects invoicing to tracked time and project budgets.

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Looking for a Productive alternative?

Productive is bBudgets, time, invoicing and team planning for agencies — and for many teams that's exactly right. But if your studio's work starts where Productive's strengths end, it's worth looking at what a tool built for creative client work does differently.

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Why studios start looking beyond Productive

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 Productive, that tends to sound like:

Built for a different centre of gravity
Productive's strength is bBudgets, time, invoicing and team planning for agencies. 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 — aAgencies that live in budgets and utilisation reports

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.

A clear client experience is more important than complex resource forecasting
You need the essentials without a heavy reporting layer
Your studio wants delivery and communication in one approachable 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 Productive: a checklist

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

1.Preserve historical time, budget and profitability records
2.Decide which reports are genuinely needed in the new workflow
3.Map resource plans separately from active project commitments
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 Productive

What is Productive used for?: Productive is agency-management software for resourcing, project delivery, time, budgets, invoicing and profitability reporting.
Does Productive include resource planning?: Yes. Capacity, availability, workload and forecasting are prominent parts of its official product.
Which is simpler for a small creative studio?: bettro is intentionally narrower and client-centred. Productive is the stronger candidate when utilisation, resourcing and detailed financial reporting are essential.
Does Productive include invoicing?: Yes. Productive connects invoicing to tracked time and project budgets.

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