General information
Name:Paymo
Paymo is a modern project management app, that allows small and medium project-based businesses to manage their projects from start to finish. Having the required functionality in just one app eliminates the need and struggle to work with and learn to use several apps, ensuring a seamless workflow throughout the entire life cycle of a project. Overall, Paymo is a great solution to create and assign tasks, keep track of your employees work time at the office and on the go, and collaborate and issue invoices to your clients based upon timed worked. Paymo is ideally suited to freelancers from various business sectors, but can be utilized by SMB’s as well.
Vendor: Paymo LLC
Hosting options: Web only
Cost and plans: $14.95/user/month which includes all the features. There is a 15 day free trial so that you can check everything out.
Languages: 18 options, one of the most generous I’ve ever seen!
Currency: Loads. I didn’t count them all, but there are probably about 18 to match the language options.
Basic features: starting a project
None of the software I’ve reviewed this year makes it difficult to start a new project, and Paymo is no exception.
Use the big ‘Add Project’ button. Leica app for mac. Type in the project description, add the client info (I think this is mandatory), set a colour. There is a nice range of greens so I can choose one to match my corporate colours.
You can then add tasks. I wasn’t massively impressed that each task has to be added to a task list. I wasn’t sure why I would want to set up new task lists, so I created one to find out. It just displays the tasks grouped together on the screen. You could use a task list to group or categorise tasks such as by the person who is doing the work or by project stage.
I did like that you don’t have to click too much to move to the next task. If you have lots of tasks to enter you can do them quickly, type the task name and click Add Task to get another one going straight away. I am a big fan of not having too many mandatory fields. You can mark a task as complete from within the task details or the task list.
The task information pane in Paymo
You don’t have to click save or enter on lots of the fields in the system, which is very slick. Once it’s on the screen, it’s done.
You can link milestones to a task list but not to a task. And I don’t believe it’s a dynamic link – it’s not going to flash up that you are missing that milestone if you don’t complete all your tasks on time.
Client focused
Paymo is really aimed at small and medium sized businesses which provide services to others. Everything to do with a project relates back to the client.
The reporting feature gives you lots of options, but essentially they only report on time spent on the project (and the associated cost of this). These sorts of reports are handy for giving your clients or working out what to bill clients, but perhaps less useful for working out whether your internal team is over-resourced.
The good thing about the reports is that you can have them either static or live, so you can produce real-time reports or snapshots depending on what you need.
The dashboard is where you’d go for your other data, and it looks very smart. You can’t drill down into the dashboard, which is a shame. The dashboard picture in the help and on the Paymo website looks much better than the dashboard I had available, and not just because it had a ton more data in it. There obviously are additional widgets available but I wasn’t sure how to add them to the dashboard.
This is what yours might look like if you had even more data and widgets:
This is the Paymo dashboard as illustrated in the press kit: lots more widgets and useful data!
There is a full timesheet feature, with plenty of colourful ways to display the data. You can pick to view the data as lists, or month to view/week to view with different colours to highlight your different projects (hence the reason for choosing a project colour).
Integrations and mobile
Paymo has an API, plus apps for Apple devices and one you can download from Google Play. Then there are desktop widgets for Windows and Mac that let you easily track time on tasks and update your projects without having to have to go to the website all the time. There’s also Zapier integrations, so it’s really flexible.
Tailoring it for you
One of the best things about Paymo is how much you can tailor it to suit you. Add photos of your team. Add a logo. Pick your colours. And best of all, you can change the date format so you don’t have to have the month first! UK readers rejoice.
It might seem picky, but these little things make the difference between a totally smooth experience and a happy user and one who uses it because they have to and thinks it’s just OK.
To conclude…
If you run a consultancy, if you offer services to other businesses, if you are a freelancer, then this would work for you. It’s slick, well-designed and targeted to a particular market.
The power of Paymo is in the integrated invoicing, financial reporting, billing and client management. If you didn’t need that then you’d be wasting much of the functionality, in my view, as that’s what it does best.
May 2017 Update: Since writing my initial review they’ve added Gantt Chart and Portfolio Gantt Chart, Resource Scheduling, Kanban Boards, flat fee projects and GSuite integration which makes Paymo a powerful project management tool.
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I shared this review with Laurentiu at Paymo and he commented:
There are actually 74 currency options.
Grouping by task lists is mainly for project stages/types of jobs and not for users (users can be added to each task). For example, a project “Web Design” that has been split in tasks lists and tasks and users assigned to tasks:
Research
-online research (Joe)
-online research (Joe)
-meeting with clients (Mary)
-compile report (Joe)
Design
-concept (Julie)
-wireframes (Julie)
-concept (Julie)
-wireframes (Julie)
Development
– front end (Chris)
– back end (John)
Etc.
– front end (Chris)
– back end (John)
Etc.
You can also hit Enter to add another task (after you’ve added one) instead of moving your hand from the keyboard to the mouse. You can set reminders.
We’ve added the possibility to create “Flat Free” projects
We now have a Gantt Chart, a Resource Scheduler and Kanban Boards
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We’ve added the integration with Google Apps
We’ve also launched the Paymo Academy where you can study advanced project management functionality (for the moment we have materials on Gantt Charts)
https://yellowcritic669.weebly.com/blog/mac-app-store-twist. Full disclosure: Paymo has been one of my blog sponsors this year but I have not been paid for this review. Just thought you’d like to know!
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Paymo Plus is an automatic time tracking tool that tracks what you do on the computer. It tracks how much time you spend browsing Facebook, editing a Word document, tweeting, or how much time you spend away from the desk.
Where to download PaymoPlus
Paymo App
Script editor app mac. You can download Paymo Plus from your Paymo account by clicking on Your profile (bottom left corner) → Add-ons & Integrations or from our website.
Paymo App For Mac Shortcut
Paymo Plus is designed for multitasking and it’s very easy to use: just set it to run when the computer boots up and link the entries with the tasks whenever you like to.
You can add new task lists and tasks in the left Projects and tasks section. If you have a lot of projects you can filter them by typing the name or the first couple of letters.
Syncing entries with the online account
Time entries can be linked with the desired task by either right clicking on the time entry → Link with task, dragging and dropping the time entry from the center of the app to the tasks section on the left or by using Rules.
Create Rules in Paymo Plus
The fastest way to sync entries with tasks is to create rules by clicking on the Rules option → Add rules. Creating a rule helps you automatically associate a specific program with a project and a task. You need to follow these steps:
Paymo App For Mac Windows 10
- select the desired application and add it to the Selected Applications list
- select a window title rule (match all words, match any word, match exact phrase or match regular expression) and add the words, phrase or regular expression
- select when the rule should be active
- select the project and task you wish to link the entries with
Setting up the app
When clicking on View you can set the apps you wish to be excluded from tracking. You can also select to display the linked entries and to refresh the project list.
In order to access the Settings section you need to click on File → Settings for Windows or Paymo Plus → Preferences for Mac. There you can set up your login credentials, the away time detection, proxy settings and UI Settings. Or you can right click on the timer icon → Settings.
Paymo App For Mac Computer
If the app stops tracking or saving time entries, it means the sqlite got corrupted – don’t worry, there’s a quick fix for that. You need to click on Paymo Plus → About Paymo for Mac or Help → About Paymo for Windows and follow the path to the sqlite file. Once there, close the app (exit) -> Rename the sqlite file and re-open the app and everything should be back to normal.