Comments on: Liquid Planner gets project portals

Collaborative tool Liquid Planner has a new way to share a collaborative project called portals.

[MadLyb]

I like these online tools, but they have really got to work on the value proposition. $300/year per user can be a big hit for most teams.

At least they are finally getting what MS got quite a few years ago with Project Server, that a lot of people need to interact with a project, but you will never get someone to pay $450 per person just so they can update a task or view progress.

[Charles-LP]

Josh, thanks for the thoughtful coverage. Per the first comment, LiquidPlanner is actually a low cost alternative compared to other professional SaaS Project Management products that do scheduling, timesheets, etc. Typically you are looking at $600 a seat /yr (and more) for alternatives. If you want to compare to CRM, we pay $1200 a seat/year for Salesforce Enterprise (ouch). The key way to look at this is productivity delivered vs. cost of the tool. Assume your team member makes $50K a year, then all we really need to save him/her is 1 hour a month to break even. If LiquidPlanner isn?t saving you many times that, call us and we?ll show you how.

Charles, CEO, LiquidPlanner.

[indrekthebest]

Wise answer from Charles. It's still costly for small businesses. Well, small businesses do not need all that functionality. There are plenty of free alternatives. I recommend www.yutiti.com.