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Phloz vs Productive
Productive is built for agencies, down to budgets and invoicing. Phloz covers client delivery, adds the tracking map, and leaves the finance layer to your accounting tool.
What Phloz has that Productive doesn't
- Tracking infrastructure map
- Typed tracking-node schemas
- Free unlimited client portal access
When Productive is the right choice
Productive is the better tool if these matter more to you than the tracking map:
- Profitability you can see: cost and billable rates per person turn each project and client into a live profit-and-loss, with overhead on top
- Resource planning against each person's real capacity, with tentative bookings and placeholders for roles not yet hired
- Recurring retainer budgets that roll unused or overused hours forward and can draft the invoice
The long version, including where Productive strains: Productive.io for agencies: the honest review.
Already on Productive and looking to leave? The Productive alternative for agencies page covers what changes and how the migration goes.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Phloz really cheaper than Productive for an agency?
- It depends on your team size and client count. Phloz plans are sized by active clients, with a set number of team seats included in each (extra seats cost extra), nothing is charged per contact, and viewer seats for client stakeholders are free — so the comparison turns on how many clients you run versus how many people and contacts you have. Run your own numbers on /pricing; we would rather you check than take our word for it.
- Can Phloz replace Productive entirely, or is it a complement?
- For digital marketing agencies running client CRM, delivery work, and tracking documentation on Productive (or trying to), Phloz can replace that part. It doesn't replace everything Productive may do: sales pipelines for product companies, invoicing or job costing, live-data dashboards, and generic team PM unrelated to client work stay where they are — so for some agencies Phloz is a complement, not a replacement.
- How long does migrating from Productive take?
- Plan on 1-3 days: a few hours of structural mapping, importing clients and their contacts from a CSV and re-creating open work by hand, and a parallel-running week to verify nothing slipped. The main lift is mental — accepting the agency-shaped defaults instead of recreating your Productive setup verbatim.
- Does Phloz integrate with Productive?
- No. Phloz has no Productive integration, no public API, and no Zapier connector, so the two don't sync. Teams switching off Productive export what they need, re-create clients and open work in Phloz by hand, then leave Productive behind. If Productive stays as the company-wide tool and Phloz handles agency ops only, the two run side by side without a sync. Talk to us about your specific case at contact@phloz.com.
- Why doesn't Productive have a tracking infrastructure map?
- Tracking infrastructure as a typed graph (every GA4 property, GTM container, ad pixel, and conversion action per client, with health state and verification cadence) isn't a feature Productive positions for. Phloz built it because the usual alternative is a spreadsheet that goes stale. It's the center of Phloz, not an add-on.
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