Monograph Erfahrungen

This software is fairly easy to implement and use. We appreciate that it allows us to track time for jobs. The Gantt charts are very helpful to planning our work.

The invoicing feature needs a lot of improvement. It would be nice to be able to see how much you're likely to be able to invoice each month, based on the contracts and the hours spent on each job. It would also be nice if the invoicing feature could total the amount invoiced as you create invoices. I understand that there are some updates planned soon that should address these issues, though.

I like the graphs that show how I have distributed my time between different projects.

It seems like it is hard for the administrator to assign the projects and update the deadlines.
I do not have an issue with it on my end.

I discovered this software at an AIA conference and brought my conversations about it back home to my office. It was so cool to me how it was organized, with different ways of organizing your work and projecting time planned in different ways. It’s a pretty robust planning tool. The fact that it allows you to track dollars, as well as manage weekly work planning and requests , is pretty cool too. It was definitely an attractive tool that I took back to my company and requested we try it out.

I tried to test out this tool, but I was unable to fully test it without getting a team into it. I could not get a full project team to use it because they wanted to have someone test it out first. The cost ended up being overruled. People would rather use a free tool that does less things, I think because most people don’t want to take the time or spend resources to plan effectively.

I like the flexibility of the software and the direction that it is going. There is definitely expandability and we really like being able to grow with the company.

Need to get daily planning resolved and sub consultants need to be integrated into the system.

Love how easy and user friendly Monograph is. It has the features that we need without the frills and complications of other softwares. The team at Monograph has been so helpful and the access to all their articles has been a huge benefit.

There are a couple features that I wish Monograph had, like batch AR reporting and a setting to create an invoice template, but hopefully these are features that can be added soon.

This finally allows a project-overview look across all active projects in the firm. Other software only focuses on specific projects but Monograph lets you assess everything that's going on in a small-medium firm.

There are a few features still in development like better forecasting of individual employees' time, but the team has been responsive about those updates and communicates them well.

Works like we think as architects, allows percent complete invoicing and budget tracking.

I wish the reporting was more robust or customizable.

easy to navigate the website, since I can see what other teammates are working on, it's very transparent.

I wish it has the time subtraction factor per each project. it only shows overall in one particular year or not be able to take the data out into excel or pdf is challenging

Unlike other project management and time tracking software, this product provides the capability to track project budget/fees in phases that align with the architecture industry's standards.

One of the most valuable things about this software is the ability to track hours against the project fee. We wish that the status of each project related to the project fee was more clear (percentage complete, time remaining for each phase, etc). You have to click into several menus to get to this info.

The visualization of the information makes this somewhat intuitive.

Wish tasks were better broken down in smaller elements to track better time per tasks.

I like the scheduling feature the best so I can see how workload is being divided in the office and what our capacity is.

Not sure - still getting to know it and nothing really bugs me yet. I do not like when you have to change team members on a project that you have to change each phase...

Monograph makes it easy to both plan for projects and quickly see a clear overview of them. The colors are also helpful in quickly differentiating one project from another. Monograph allows you to see how much time employees are spending on what projects.

I wish there was a feature for general office use where someone who is not working on a specific project, but instead the business itself, could use the timer.

The ease of editing a project is awesome.

I haven't found much that needs to be adjusted yet.

1. Very nice graphical interface which makes it easier to use than other products with similar features
2. Monograph as a company is very open and transparent about the improvements they are working on and are always eager to get constructive feedback.
3. The Money-Gantt feature

The Milestone and Task tracking capabilities do not have project team notifications yet

I like the amount of features and the setup of the software

I wish it were a bit easier to use the milestones and tie them to tasks. It would be nice if there could be notifications or email reminders if a milestone deadline is coming up, if a project is going over budget, or going over schedule.

interface
time tracking
gantt charting
milestones

invoicing does not show outstanding balance per projects.
would like to generate draft invoices for review as a batch instead of 1x1
tasks do not send out automated reminders, reducing functionality
reporting is weak, would like to be able to generate reports on all active projects, by staff member etc.

The graphic representation of the relationship between budget/schedule/actual.

- The resource section is not usable for a large company. Needs to pre-sort projects and staff before start-up.
- Project setup and especially resource allocation are cumbersome.
- Reports are limited.
- Billing rates were not setup to allow for rate increases.
- Need to create and track subtotals in projects with multi-faceted contracts

This platform keeps everything our office needs for time tracking and project management in one place.

Updating hours in the field on the go is near impossible and manual input once we get back to the office isn't the easiest. If you don't know how much time but you know about when you started and stopped, you have to do the math converting 4:00pm - 4:52pm site visit into '52 minutes' into '.xx' hours

That it’s a small start up company is desirable.

Get an app for crying out loud! The web browser on a phone is dreadful. Time tracking should be an easy process. I liked jumping onto an app on my phone while on a bus home at the end of the day and I just can’t do it with Monograph. I have to be at a desk to use the software and even then it’s clunky and not intuitive.

As a sole practitioner my time is spread across every facet of running the business and Monograph helps me stay organized and efficient. The project planning, time tracking, fee management and invoicing facets are invaluable allowing me to spend more billable time working on projects.

I appreciate that Monograph continually evolves and update features, but I would like to have more customizable/editing features on the Invoicing end.

easy to use, straight forward. i use it on the daily to track my time.

hard to notify the person a new task was made that you are working with

I love how easy it is to fill out my timesheets. Timesheets are well organized in the software and easy to edit. I also like being able to add notes to the hours I put in.

I think that the time tracker clock could be easier to use. Currently I don't use it at all because it ends up being more of a pain than a benefit. As well as not improving efficiency. I think it would be more useful if it was integrated with the time sheet page. I often jump from project to project in a single day. So being able to start time on a project and pause, then start time on another would be helpful.