Migrate your awork data
Agency-focused project management platform with built-in time tracking, workflow automation, and a clean interface. Positioned as a simpler Jira alternative for teams managing client projects.
In its favor
Why people choose awork
The signal that keeps awork on the shortlist. Sourced from G2, Capterra, and customer scoping calls.
Users consistently cite built-in time tracking as the primary reason for choosing awork, because it eliminates the need for separate time-logging tools and keeps billing data tightly coupled to tasks in one platform.
The interface is described as intuitive and immediately clear, making it accessible to team members of varying technical skill levels without requiring formal training or documentation.
Workflow customization is praised as significantly simpler than Jira, with fewer settings to configure and a more focused feature set that maps directly to agency processes.
The Lexoffice integration is highlighted as a differentiator for German-speaking agencies, connecting project time data directly into accounting workflows with minimal manual intervention.
Teams switching from Notion, Trello, or Microsoft To Do cite awork's structured project hierarchy and dedicated client-project setup as the key improvements to how they organize work.
Time tracking cannot be logged directly against a Client record, only against Projects and Tasks, forcing teams that bill by client to create wrapper projects or lose billing granularity.
Small, ad-hoc tasks require a full Project to be created before they can be tracked, pushing teams toward either over-engineering their project structure or skipping time logging entirely.
Sortable priority tags are absent from the task interface, leaving teams without a native way to sequence or filter work by urgency across the project board.
A November 2025 review noted that despite being described as the best on the market, the platform fell short on core feature expectations and felt limiting for growing teams.
Reasons to switch
Why people leave awork
The recurring reasons buyers give for replacing awork. Presented as facts, not knocks.
Platform scorecard
Strengths, weaknesses, and where awork 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
Weaknesses
Where it works
Where it struggles
Pricing tiers
awork pricing overview
a work publishes tier names (Starter, Professional, Enterprise) with recommended team sizes but does not publicly disclose per-seat or flat pricing. Professional is recommended for teams of 5–100 users; Enterprise targets teams of 20–200 users. Pricing is custom and typically negotiated, which means migration scoping must account for potential feature gating if a source account is on a lower tier.
Starter
Tier 1 of 3
Not publicly documented
What's included
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What gets migrated
awork object support
Object-by-object support for awork migrations. Per-pair details surface during scoping.
Projects
Fully supporteda work's primary container for client work. Projects have statuses, assigned users, budgets, and deadlines. We migrate Projects 1:1 and preserve the project name, description, start/end dates, budget fields, and owner assignment. Status values require mapping to the destination system.
Tasks
Fully supportedTasks are the core work unit within Projects. awork exposes tasks in list, board, and timeline views. We export all task fields including assignee, due date, priority, status, and description. Custom field values are migrated at the task level. The task's status field maps from awork's per-workspace status scheme.
Subtasks
Mapping requiredSubtasks exist as a structured child object of tasks. The exact nesting depth and display behavior vary by view. We preserve the parent-child relationship but flag subtask ordering if the destination system has ordering limitations. Some PM tools collapse subtasks into checklist fields, which we handle during field mapping.
Users (Team Members)
Fully supportedUsers are workspace-scoped members with roles. awork stores user profiles with names, email addresses, and avatars. We migrate user records and preserve assignments on Projects and Tasks. If the destination system uses a different user schema, we map by email as the unique identifier.
Project Statuses
Mapping requiredStatuses are user-defined at the workspace level, not global. Each project can have a custom set of statuses with distinct names and colors. We collect the full status schema during scoping and build a value map so migrated records land in the correct state at the destination.
Custom Fields
Mapping requiredCustom fields are created at the workspace level, then activated per-project before they appear at the task level. awork supports text, number, date, and other field types. We flag any custom field that is not activated for a target project, as it will not surface at import time. Task-level custom fields export to Excel and API in all views.
Time Entries
Fully supporteda work stores tracked time with start and end timestamps, user attribution, billable/non-billable flags, and task association. Time entries export in Excel format. We migrate all time entry fields and note that billing rates stored inside awork may need separate mapping if the destination uses a different rate schema.
Project Templates
Mapping requiredProject Templates in awork define reusable project structures including default tasks, statuses, and custom field configurations. We preserve template definitions as a distinct object and migrate them as Projects or templates at the destination depending on the target platform's template model.
Tags
Fully supportedTags are key-value labels applied to tasks to categorize work across projects. Tags export with task data. We map tag names 1:1 and flag any tag normalization needed if the destination system enforces lower-case or uniqueness constraints.
| Object | Support | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Projects | Fully supported | a work's primary container for client work. Projects have statuses, assigned users, budgets, and deadlines. We migrate Projects 1:1 and preserve the project name, description, start/end dates, budget fields, and owner assignment. Status values require mapping to the destination system. |
| Tasks | Fully supported | Tasks are the core work unit within Projects. awork exposes tasks in list, board, and timeline views. We export all task fields including assignee, due date, priority, status, and description. Custom field values are migrated at the task level. The task's status field maps from awork's per-workspace status scheme. |
| Subtasks | Mapping required | Subtasks exist as a structured child object of tasks. The exact nesting depth and display behavior vary by view. We preserve the parent-child relationship but flag subtask ordering if the destination system has ordering limitations. Some PM tools collapse subtasks into checklist fields, which we handle during field mapping. |
| Users (Team Members) | Fully supported | Users are workspace-scoped members with roles. awork stores user profiles with names, email addresses, and avatars. We migrate user records and preserve assignments on Projects and Tasks. If the destination system uses a different user schema, we map by email as the unique identifier. |
| Project Statuses | Mapping required | Statuses are user-defined at the workspace level, not global. Each project can have a custom set of statuses with distinct names and colors. We collect the full status schema during scoping and build a value map so migrated records land in the correct state at the destination. |
| Custom Fields | Mapping required | Custom fields are created at the workspace level, then activated per-project before they appear at the task level. awork supports text, number, date, and other field types. We flag any custom field that is not activated for a target project, as it will not surface at import time. Task-level custom fields export to Excel and API in all views. |
| Time Entries | Fully supported | a work stores tracked time with start and end timestamps, user attribution, billable/non-billable flags, and task association. Time entries export in Excel format. We migrate all time entry fields and note that billing rates stored inside awork may need separate mapping if the destination uses a different rate schema. |
| Project Templates | Mapping required | Project Templates in awork define reusable project structures including default tasks, statuses, and custom field configurations. We preserve template definitions as a distinct object and migrate them as Projects or templates at the destination depending on the target platform's template model. |
| Tags | Fully supported | Tags are key-value labels applied to tasks to categorize work across projects. Tags export with task data. We map tag names 1:1 and flag any tag normalization needed if the destination system enforces lower-case or uniqueness constraints. |
Gotchas
What to watch for in awork migrations
Issues we've hit on past awork migrations, tagged by severity. FlitStack AI handles every one — surfacing them up front because buyer engineering teams want to know.
Custom fields must be activated per project
Project statuses are per-workspace, not global
Timeline export is an image, not structured data
| Severity | Issue |
|---|---|
| Medium | Custom fields must be activated per project |
| Medium | Project statuses are per-workspace, not global |
| Low | Timeline export is an image, not structured data |
Leaving awork?
Where awork customers move next
5 destinations awork can migrate to.
How a awork migration works
Four steps, awork-specific
Connect
OAuth 2.0 (recommended OAuth 2.1 with PKCE / Authorization Code Flow) and personal API keys into awork. Scopes limited to read-only on the data we move.
Map
We translate awork-specific structures (custom fields, objects, value lists) to the destination's model.
Sample
Test with a 50–200 record subset to validate awork quirks before production.
Migrate
Full migration with awork rate-limit handling. Rollback available throughout.
FAQ
awork migration FAQ
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