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Flowtly vs Asana
Asana is work management: tasks, projects, portfolios and workflows for teams of every kind. Flowtly is built for service firms and ties the work to time, invoices and margin.
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The short answer
Pick Asana if you need to plan and track work across teams, with many views and automations, and billing happens elsewhere. Pick Flowtly if you bill clients for your team’s time and want invoices and project margin built from the same records.
Who Asana is for
- Teams coordinating tasks across departments
- Companies with many cross-team projects and portfolios
- Organisations whose billing and finance run in other tools
Who Flowtly is for
- Service firms of 5–50 people that bill for their team’s time
- Owners who want each project’s margin before month-end
- Teams that want projects, time, invoices and their people in one tool
Pros and cons
Each point names its source and the date we checked it.
| Product | Pro or con | What it means | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flowtly | Pro | Projects, time, invoices, budgets and team costs share one record, so each project’s margin is current. | Flowtly featureschecked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Flowtly | Pro | E-invoices through EU Peppol and Factur-X, and through KSeF for Polish entities. | Flowtly featureschecked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Flowtly | Con | No Gantt chart yet; it is on the public roadmap as planned. | Flowtly roadmapchecked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Flowtly | Con | A short list of native integrations (Google Calendar, Make, Polish banks) plus an open API, not a marketplace. | Flowtly integrationschecked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Asana | Pro | Mature task management with boards, timelines, portfolios and rule-based automation. | Asana product pagechecked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Asana | Pro | A free plan to start, and resource management on the Advanced plan. | Asana pricing pagechecked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Asana | Con | No invoicing among its plans: billing clients needs another tool. | Asana pricing pagechecked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Asana | Con | Project budgets come in a separate Timesheets and Budgets add-on. | Asana pricing pagechecked 24 Oct 2026 |
When Asana is the better choice
- Your main need is planning and tracking tasks, not billing.
- Many departments, not only delivery, will work in the tool.
- You want a large choice of views, templates and integrations.
Pricing model
How each product charges. We do not copy list prices here, because vendors change them: follow the link for today’s figures.
Flowtly
Per user, per month, on three plans, with annual billing cheaper than monthly. Free trial.
Asana
Free plan, then per user, per month on Starter and Advanced; Enterprise is quoted. Timesheets and budgets are an add-on.
Moving from Asana
Typical effort: two to four weeks for a team of 20, with both tools running side by side for one billing cycle
- 1
Export
Export projects and tasks from Asana as CSV.
- 2
Import and check
Set up clients, projects and rates in Flowtly; we help with the first import.
- 3
Run in parallel
Log one month’s time in Flowtly and invoice from it; keep Asana for task boards if your teams like them.
See Flowtly with your own projects
Bring a sample of your projects into the free trial. We help with the first import.
Other comparisons
- Flowtly vs ProductiveThe closest match to Flowtly; the difference is people records and European e-invoicing.
- Flowtly vs WorkflowMaxA strong quote-to-invoice job flow tied to Xero or QuickBooks; less for people and e-invoicing.
- Flowtly vs OdooThe broadest suite here; a service firm configures the apps it needs and leaves the rest.
- Flowtly vs Bitrix24A wide collaboration and CRM workspace at a flat price; project finance is lighter.
- Flowtly vs SkelloMade for shift rotas and French labour rules; not for billing client projects.
- Flowtly vs spreadsheetsFlexible and familiar until several people edit the numbers every month.
Sources and review
Written by Flowtly’s team, who build one of the two products compared. Every point about Asana is checked against its public pages on the date shown.
- Asana product page, checked 24 Oct 2026