Project Management

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All-in-one work management platform combining project management, time tracking, expense management, and invoicing for small-to-medium service businesses. Targets teams needing unified billing and resource visibility without a full PSA suite.

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In its favor

Why people choose Avaza

The signal that keeps Avaza on the shortlist. Sourced from G2, Capterra, and customer scoping calls.

Small teams pick Avaza for its free tier with unlimited contacts and project collaborators, removing billing friction during initial adoption.

Service businesses cite the tight integration between time tracking and invoicing as a reason to stay — time logged against a project flows directly to an invoice.

Project managers value the resource scheduling view showing who is allocated to which project across the team calendar.

Professional services firms highlight that quotes can be converted to active projects in one click, keeping the sales-to-delivery pipeline fluid.

Small businesses choose Avaza over point solutions because one login covers projects, tasks, team chat, expenses, and billing.

Advanced task management features are limited compared to dedicated tools, causing teams managing complex project hierarchies to look elsewhere.

Reporting requires navigating role-based permissions and is described as difficult to access, create, and use for real-time profit-and-loss visibility.

Teams scaling beyond small-business size find the platform lacks the depth needed for multi-project portfolio management and enterprise workflows.

Integration capabilities are considered limited, prompting teams with complex toolchains to migrate to platforms with richer marketplace ecosystems.

Reasons to switch

Why people leave Avaza

The recurring reasons buyers give for replacing Avaza. Presented as facts, not knocks.

Platform scorecard

Strengths, weaknesses, and where Avaza fits

Grades across six dimensions, plus a SWOT-style view of where the platform shines and where it falls short.

SWOT — strengths, weaknesses, and use-case fit

Strengths

Unified platform covering projects, time tracking, expenses, and invoicing under one login.Free tier with unlimited contacts and project collaborators for small teams to evaluate fit.Time logged against tasks can flow directly into invoices without re-entry.Cost rate and billable rate configuration at contact or category level cascades through to timesheet entries.Resource scheduling calendar shows team allocation across projects.

Weaknesses

Reporting is role-restricted and difficult to navigate, particularly for real-time profit-and-loss visibility.Task management lacks depth for complex project hierarchies — suitable primarily for small to mid-sized projects.Custom fields only appear in filtered report views and require explicit configuration to export.Integration ecosystem is smaller than major PSA competitors, limiting connectivity for complex toolchains.Team Chat history is not exportable through any documented API endpoint.

Where it works

Small professional services firms with 1–20 team members that need unified project tracking, time logging, and client billing in a single login.Service businesses billing clients on time where logged hours flow directly into invoices without manual re-entry, eliminating duplicate data entry.Small teams in professional services verticals such as healthcare administration, architecture, education, or management consulting requiring basic project structure with integrated financial visibility.Small businesses replacing disconnected tools with one platform covering projects, tasks, team chat, expenses, and invoicing to reduce subscription sprawl.Small teams valuing responsive, personalised customer support during onboarding and ongoing usage over deep customisation options.

Where it struggles

Organisations requiring complex, multi-level task hierarchies or nested sub-project structures beyond basic sections and tasks.Teams needing real-time profit-and-loss dashboards or detailed financial reporting that requires navigating role-restricted report permissions.Growing businesses scaling beyond small-team operations that require portfolio-level multi-project governance and enterprise workflow capabilities.Teams dependent on extensive third-party integrations or maintaining complex multi-tool ecosystems with rich marketplace connectivity.Organisations requiring granular, flexible reporting with real-time visibility or custom dashboards beyond the standard 48 role-restricted report templates.

Pricing tiers

Avaza pricing overview

Avaza uses a per-user pricing model for Timesheet/Expense, Admin/Finance, and Resource Scheduling seats. Additional users cost $7/month each. Storage beyond the tier allocation is billed at $0.50 per GB per month. The Free tier is functionally limited to 5 active projects and 10 customers, which is a common migration scope constraint.

Free

Tier 1 of 4

$0/month

What's included

Unlimited Project Collaborators1 Timesheet/Expense User1 Admin/Finance User5 Team Members with Chat5 Active Projects, 10 Customers5 Invoices/Bills per month, 100MB storageRegular Email and Chat Support

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What gets migrated

Avaza object support

Object-by-object support for Avaza migrations. Per-pair details surface during scoping.

Projects

Fully supported

Projects are Avaza's top-level container. They carry billing method, budget, cost rate, and billable rate settings inherited from the contact or timesheet category level. We migrate projects 1:1, preserving dates, status, team member assignments, and custom fields.

Sections

Fully supported

Sections are grouping containers inside a project used to organise Tasks. They have a display order and no independent metadata. We migrate them in sequence with their parent project.

Tasks

Fully supported

Tasks sit inside Sections inside Projects. Each task carries assignees, due dates, priorities, and flat-rate amounts. We preserve the full task hierarchy and assignee mapping.

Timesheets

Mapping required

Timesheets are time entries linked to a project, section, task, user, and timesheet category. Billable rates and cost rates are copied into each timesheet record from the project at entry time and can diverge from source settings. We map the timesheet record including its frozen rate values and flag any entries where the rate was overridden post-creation.

Expenses

Fully supported

Expenses are linked to a project and carry amount, currency, category, billable flag, and receipt attachments. We migrate expenses as-is and preserve the billable flag for downstream invoicing.

Invoices

Mapping required

Invoices are financial records that can include free-form line items, timesheet blocks, expense blocks, and task fixed amounts. They reference customers and carry payment status. We import invoices as completed records and flag any that were partially paid at migration time.

Quotes and Estimates

Mapping required

Quotes are distinct from invoices and have approval statuses and client-view links. Avaza can convert a quote to a project but the quote itself is not a project sub-object. We reconstruct quote line items as project-level data.

Customers and External Contacts

Fully supported

Customers are contacts billable at the account level. External Contacts are broader and include project collaborators and client portal users. Both are migratable and carry billing and payment-term settings.

Users and Team Members

Mapping required

Avaza differentiates between Project Collaborators, Timesheet/Expense Users, Admin/Finance Users, Resource Schedulers, and Chat-access Team Members. Role-based limits vary by tier. We map the user identity and role assignments and flag any role counts that exceed destination plan limits.

Timesheet Categories

Fully supported

Timesheet Categories define the type of work logged and carry default billable and cost rates that cascade into projects and timesheet entries. We migrate categories and preserve their rate configurations.

Attachments

Mapping required

File attachments on tasks, expenses, and invoices are stored internally. We migrate file references and re-attach files where the export includes the blob or a reachable URL. Files without a reachable URL are noted in the migration report.

Custom Fields

Mapping required

Custom fields are available on Projects and Tasks and appear in filtered report views. They are not surfaced in the standard export grid without applying the correct filter context. We map named custom fields explicitly during the discovery phase.

Reports and Exports

Fully supported

Avaza exposes 48 named reports across Project Management, Finance, Expenses, and Exports sections. Reports are role-filtered. We pull from the Exports section for raw unformatted data suitable for import elsewhere.

Team Chat Channels

Not in this platform

Team Chat is an internal messaging layer without a documented export endpoint. Chat history is not included in data exports and we cannot migrate it. We flag this gap upfront during scoping.

Gotchas

What to watch for in Avaza migrations

Issues we've hit on past Avaza migrations, tagged by severity. FlitStack AI handles every one — surfacing them up front because buyer engineering teams want to know.

High

Cost Rates and Billable Rates are role-restricted

Medium

Timesheet rate values are copied at entry time

Medium

Invoice data spans multiple linked entities

Medium

Tier-based limits on active projects and users

Low

Team Chat has no export capability

How a Avaza migration works

Four steps, Avaza-specific

Connect

Not publicly documented — Avaza API documentation is accessible at api.avaza.com but authentication method is not disclosed in the available research data. into Avaza. Scopes limited to read-only on the data we move.

Map

We translate Avaza-specific structures (custom fields, objects, value lists) to the destination's model.

Sample

Test with a 50–200 record subset to validate Avaza quirks before production.

Migrate

Full migration with Avaza rate-limit handling. Rollback available throughout.

FAQ

Avaza migration FAQ

Answers to the questions buyers ask most during Avaza migration scoping. Not seeing yours? Book a call.

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Most Avaza migrations under 1M records finish in 48–72 hours end-to-end. Larger orgs with custom objects or buyer-side security review typically take 5–7 days.

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