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Flowtly vs Productive
Productive is a management platform for agencies and consultancies. Flowtly covers the same ground for service firms and adds employment agreements, e-signatures and European e-invoicing.
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The short answer
Pick Productive if you run an agency, your books live in Xero or QuickBooks, and revenue forecasting months ahead is central. Pick Flowtly if you also want employment agreements, e-signatures and e-invoices through Peppol in the same tool.
Who Productive is for
- Agencies and consultancies
- Teams whose accounting runs in Xero or QuickBooks
- Firms that plan revenue and resourcing months ahead
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
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| 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 |
| Productive | Pro | Built for agencies: projects, time tracking, budgets, resource planning, invoicing and a sales CRM. | Productive product pagechecked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Productive | Pro | Forecasting and revenue recognition are part of the product. | Productive pricing pagechecked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Productive | Con | The top plan, Ultimate, has no public price. | Productive pricing pagechecked 24 Oct 2026 |
| Productive | Con | HRIS and invoicing integrations start on the Professional plan. | Productive pricing pagechecked 24 Oct 2026 |
When Productive is the better choice
- You run a creative or digital agency and want tooling shaped around agency work.
- Your books are in Xero or QuickBooks and should stay there.
- Forecasting revenue months ahead matters more to you than people records in the same tool.
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.
Productive
Per user, per month, on the Essential and Professional plans; Ultimate is quoted. 14-day free trial.
Moving from Productive
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, clients and time entries from Productive’s reports.
- 2
Import and check
Bring clients, projects and rates into Flowtly; we help with the first import and show what could not be matched.
- 3
Run in parallel
Invoice one month from Flowtly while Productive stays read-only, then switch it off.
See Flowtly with your own projects
Bring a sample of your projects into the free trial. We help with the first import.
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- 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 Productive is checked against its public pages on the date shown.
- Productive pricing page, checked 24 Oct 2026
- Productive product page, checked 24 Oct 2026