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Phloz vs Resource Guru
Resource Guru is resource scheduling — who's booked, who's free, across weeks. Phloz is the agency CRM + delivery + tracking layer; it knows the clients and the work, not the calendar.
What Phloz has that Resource Guru doesn't
- Typed tracking-infrastructure map (GA4/GTM/pixels/CAPI per client) with proactive tracking-health
- Agency CRM — clients, contacts, message threads, client portals (Resource Guru schedules people, it doesn't hold the client relationship)
- Task delivery with client-visible deliverables + approval
- Note: Resource Guru does true capacity planning — availability, leave, clash detection, utilization; Phloz has departments but no booking/capacity layer
When Resource Guru is the right choice
If you're not running a digital marketing agency, Resource Guru is likely a fine fit. Resource Guru is a mature, capable product — it just isn't shaped for our specific use case. Phloz exists because we couldn't find a platform that treated agency ops and tracking infrastructure as first-class.
Already on Resource Guru and looking to leave? The Resource Guru alternative for agencies page covers what changes and how the migration goes.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Phloz really cheaper than Resource Guru 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 Resource Guru entirely, or is it a complement?
- For digital marketing agencies running client CRM, delivery work, and tracking documentation on Resource Guru (or trying to), Phloz can replace that part. It doesn't replace everything Resource Guru 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 Resource Guru 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 Resource Guru setup verbatim.
- Does Phloz integrate with Resource Guru?
- No. Phloz has no Resource Guru integration, no public API, and no Zapier connector, so the two don't sync. Teams switching off Resource Guru export what they need, re-create clients and open work in Phloz by hand, then leave Resource Guru behind. If Resource Guru 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 Resource Guru 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 Resource Guru 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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