Flowlu
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All-in-One Work Management Software for Teams
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Features
84 features across 19 categories
Agile(3)
Quickly adapt to changes within projects, easily prioritize issues, bring maximum value to clients by delivering desired products without delay
Manage project backlog and organize work into agile sprints
Manage up to 50 agile projects
Automation(5)
Define and automate business processes with visual workflow builder
Complete automation suite with up to 10 business processes
Automate sales processes including lead capture, pipeline management and follow-ups
Eliminate routine work and focus on actual work through powerful automation rules available in almost every module to handle repetitive tasks
Create workflow and pipeline automation rules to streamline processes
Billing(6)
Use customizable invoice templates for professional billing
Automate late payment reminder notifications to clients
Invoice clients and get paid online, create and send invoices within seconds, automate billing and impress customers with professional invoices
Accept online payments for invoices through integrated payment processing
Create and manage product catalog for invoicing
Automate recurring billing with recurring invoice generation and payment tracking
CRM(10)
Advanced customer interaction and activity tracking features
Identify and merge duplicate contact records to maintain clean CRM data
Store and track email communication within CRM for comprehensive customer interaction history
Use pre-built email templates for CRM communications to streamline customer outreach
Track email opens and interactions within the CRM system
Access extended email history and communication records
Create web forms to capture leads directly into the CRM
Create up to 5 email inboxes per employee for better organization
Create and manage multiple sales pipelines for different products or teams
Effortlessly manage and capture new sales opportunities, track customer interactions, plan future activities and store email communication in one place
Collaboration(11)
Create a dedicated space to share information with clients, freelancers, or contractors for seamless customer collaboration
Stay in touch with team at any time through real-time chat, task and project comments, and notifications on relevant updates
Team activity feed to stay informed on company-wide updates
Invite external users and collaborators to work on projects
Complete suite of collaboration features for large teams
Create group chat channels for team communication
Manage personal calendar and schedule
Send private messages and communicate one-on-one with team members
Create and share team calendars for scheduling and planning
Add comments to tasks and mention team members for collaboration
Add followers and collaborators to tasks for team coordination
Customization(10)
Advanced customization options for record layouts, fields and business logic
Customize record layouts and fields for core modules
Customize branding elements like colors and logos in invoices and client portal
Use custom domain and email addresses in the platform
Create custom fields to capture business-specific data across modules
Create custom lists and views to organize data according to business needs
Define custom status values for tasks to match business workflow
Create calculated fields using formulas for advanced data manipulation
Complete white-label solution with custom branding throughout the platform
Use ready-made templates for projects, tasks and workflows to jumpstart work
Document Management(1)
Generate any custom documents needed effortlessly and customize them to fit specific business requirements with pre-filled information
Finance(8)
Plan and track project and departmental budgets
Advanced financial management tools for large organizations
Easily manage and track finances, maintain all financial records in one place, visualize data using graphs and have deep insights on spending
Basic financial tracking functionality for projects and organization
Track product inventory levels and manage stock for billing purposes
Support multiple currencies for invoicing and financial tracking across global teams
Track payments and expenses for financial management
Forecast project cash flow and monitor financial health of projects
HR(5)
Complete HR management tools for large teams
Organize teams into groups for basic HR management
Visualize organizational structure with interactive org charts
Create and manage employee work schedules
Manage employee time off requests and track vacation/leave
Knowledge Management(3)
Create simple internal wiki for knowledge sharing
Create external-facing knowledge bases accessible to clients and users
Create both internal knowledge bases to keep team informed and external knowledge bases to help clients and users with guides and manuals
Mobile(1)
Mobile application available for iOS and Android to manage work from anywhere
Organization(1)
Manage multiple organizations from a single account
Planning(1)
Brainstorm and keep ideas with fully customizable mind maps, define them into projects, discover new insights and grow business without limits
Project Management(5)
Visualize project timeline and dependencies with interactive Gantt chart views
Visualize tasks and projects using customizable Kanban board views
Manage multiple projects and view them as a portfolio for strategic planning
Plan, create and manage multiple projects, track progress, prioritize tasks, forecast project revenue, plan costs and monitor overall project profitability
Create and manage dependencies between tasks to ensure proper project sequencing
Reporting(4)
Create custom dashboards with advanced analytics and visualizations
Generate reports on sales pipelines, customer interactions and CRM performance metrics
Advanced analytics for project and portfolio management
Generate P&L, cash flow and other financial reports
Security(2)
Advanced security features for enterprise deployments
Control user permissions and access levels based on defined roles
Task Management(3)
Set up tasks that repeat on a schedule
Create subtasks to break down complex tasks into smaller units
Stay on top of all tasks, convert ideas into tasks, assign them to teammates, measure and analyze time spent on each task and improve productivity
Time Tracking(3)
Comprehensive time tracking across all projects and teams
Track time spent on tasks with built-in timer functionality
Convert ideas into tasks and track time spent on each task, measure billable hours, compare planned vs logged time with custom billing rates
Workflow(2)
Create multiple custom workflows for task management
Create custom workflows for project management with multiple configurable stages
Pricing
Free
- ✓100 contacts with 1 pipeline
- ✓Lead capture forms
- ✓Tasks & Projects with 1 workflow, Kanban & list views, milestones
- ✓Invoices & estimates
- ✓Product catalog
- ✓Branding
- ✓Payment & expense tracking
- ✓Private chat
- ✓Personal calendar
- ✓Comments & mentions
- ✓Basic wiki
- ✓Mind maps
- ✓Company feed
- ✓Mobile app
Essential
- ✓Everything in Free
- ✓Multiple sales pipelines
- ✓Email sync
- ✓Email templates
- ✓CRM reports
- ✓Gantt chart
- ✓Backlog & sprints
- ✓Subtasks
- ✓Task dependencies
- ✓Project workflows
- ✓Online payments
- ✓Invoice templates
- ✓Late reminders
- ✓Finance reports (P&L, cash flow)
- ✓Task followers and collaborators
- ✓Group chat
- ✓Shared calendars
- ✓Growing team knowledge base
- ✓Task timer
- ✓Custom fields & lists
- ✓Task statuses
- ✓Templates
- ✓Basic record customization
- ✓Basic team organization (groups)
- ✓Core integrations
- ✓Live chat support
Advanced
Popular- ✓Everything in Essential
- ✓Sales automations
- ✓Email tracking
- ✓Client portal
- ✓Duplicate merge
- ✓Advanced CRM reports
- ✓Multiple task workflows
- ✓Recurring tasks
- ✓Portfolio management
- ✓Project cash flow forecast
- ✓Recurring invoices
- ✓Multi-organization & multi-currency support
- ✓Inventory tracking
- ✓Role-based access
- ✓External wiki for clients
- ✓External knowledge base
- ✓Billable hours
- ✓Planned vs. logged time
- ✓Custom billing rates
- ✓Formula fields
- ✓Branding
- ✓Advanced record customization
- ✓Org chart
- ✓Time off management
- ✓Schedules
- ✓Full integration hub with higher API capacity
- ✓Workflow & pipeline automations
- ✓3 business processes
- ✓Priority support
Ultimate
- ✓Everything in Advanced
- ✓5 inboxes per employee
- ✓Extended email history
- ✓Advanced tracking
- ✓20 task & project workflows
- ✓50 agile projects
- ✓Enterprise project & portfolio analytics
- ✓Budget planning
- ✓Advanced dashboards
- ✓Enterprise finance tools
- ✓Multiple organizations
- ✓Enterprise knowledge base
- ✓100 external collaborators
- ✓Full collaboration suite
- ✓Full time tracking suite across projects & teams
- ✓Full white-labeling
- ✓Custom domain & email
- ✓Enterprise security options
- ✓Enterprise HR suite for large teams
- ✓Enterprise integrations with maximum API capacity
- ✓Full automation suite with 10 business processes
- ✓Dedicated success manager + onboarding
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Integrations
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