A Productive alternative for service businesses

Start with your priorities

Before comparing features, agree on three things with the people who will use the system every day:

1. What must work on day one?The processes you cannot run without, starting with the one that hurts most.
2. Where do hand-offs break?The places where data is re-typed between tools or teams today.
3. Who will look after the setup?Who adds fields, changes layouts and onboards new people.

What is Productive?

Productive is agency management software covering projects, budgeting, time tracking, resourcing and billing.

Why service businesses look for an alternative to Productive

Every business is different, but these are common reasons service businesses look at other options:

• They want full accounting and multi-entity finance in the same platform
• They want an intranet and branded client help centers
• They want people, recruiting and learning alongside delivery

How Perspectiv is different

• Multiple legal entities, countries and currencies, with legal entity groups
• Knowledge hub for your intranet and published documentation, plus client and vendor portals, in the same platform
• People, recruiting and learning in the same platform
• Your administrators add fields, page layouts and wording themselves, without developers or consultants
• Single sign-on with SAML or OpenID Connect is included in every plan

When Productive may be the better choice

If you need agency project and budget management running today, Productive is built for agencies. Perspectiv’s Projects area is coming soon.

Moving from Productive

Perspectiv imports from spreadsheets, matching your columns to its fields as you go, so data exported from Productive or any other tool can be brought in. Start with the area that hurts most, run both side by side for a short period, then switch. Our guide on switching in stages applies here too.

1. Map your dataMatch the columns you export to Perspectiv’s fields.
2. Test a small sampleImport a few records and check them with the people who use them.
3. Review, then switchRun both side by side for a short period, then move over. Ask a question if you are unsure.

Productive is a trademark of its owner. Perspectiv is not affiliated with or endorsed by Productive. Descriptions are based on public information as of October 2026; check with each vendor for current details.

Where it lives in Perspectiv

Labels show what opens first in the private beta (Q2 2027), what is being built now, and what is on the roadmap.

• Project managementComing soon

  Projects, programs and portfolios, with budgets, change orders, WIP, profitability and forecasts.

• Resource managementComing soon

  Availability, scheduling, staffing, capacity, utilization and pipeline-driven demand.

• Time & expenseComing soon

  Timesheets, timers and expenses against the work, approved and ready to invoice.

• General ledger & accountingPlanned

  Chart of accounts, journals, multi-entity accounting, intercompany, revenue recognition and period close.