Project Management

Migrate your Intervals data

Web-based time-tracking-first project management tool for small-to-mid teams. It lacks a mobile app and offers fewer collaboration layers than modern alternatives.

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In its favor

Why people choose Intervals

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

Project-count pricing instead of per-user — every paid plan above Lite includes unlimited users; you pay for active projects, which is unusual in PM SaaS and appealing to billable-hour firms that don't want to count seats.

Increases billable capture per the vendor's own customer data — Intervals cites typical billable-hours lift of 25-30% just from improved time tracking discipline, which justifies the spend for agencies, consultancies, and law firms.

Built specifically for billing-heavy workflows — per-task budget tracking, milestone date management, integrated invoicing, and consistent CSV/PDF exports cover the operational basics of professional services without extra tools.

20+ years of operation by Pelago and 5,000+ paying companies — Intervals has been continuously running since well before most modern PM tools, providing platform stability that startup-stage PM SaaS cannot match.

Documented public REST API with 30-day free trial — Intervals publishes API documentation at www.myintervals.com/api/ and offers a true trial without credit card, lowering evaluation friction.

No native mobile app — all time entry and task work must happen in a desktop browser, which rules out field-based or travel-heavy teams.

Dated UI compared to Asana, Monday, ClickUp or Hive — the vendor has publicly acknowledged the interface needs modernization but a new UI has been promised rather than delivered.

Limited collaboration depth — task comments and milestone notes exist but the platform has no real-time collaboration layer, @mentions, or rich document editing.

No bulk document export — documents must be downloaded individually from each task, which makes migration off the platform painful for any account with significant file attachments.

Access-level roles are limited to admin/member, with no separate project-manager, executive, or client-portal role tiers, frustrating larger or more hierarchical organizations.

Reasons to switch

Why people leave Intervals

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

Platform scorecard

Strengths, weaknesses, and where Intervals 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

Built-in timer with start/stop makes time entry frictionless for billable teamsConsistent export to CSV and PDF across every report view without configurationPer-task budget tracking and milestone date management support billing-heavy workflowsXML and CSV export available for all core objects via the native export menuAccess-level roles (admin, member) provide basic permission separation

Weaknesses

No mobile app — all time tracking and task updates require a desktop browserLimited access-level granularity — no separate manager, project-manager, or executive tiers out of the boxTimesheet approval workflow is not customizable to match firm-specific approval chainsTask management lacks advanced controls like dependencies, custom status workflows, or subtask hierarchiesNo bulk document export — individual downloads required for every file

Where it works

Small-to-mid teams (up to ~30 people) working at desktop stations who need integrated time tracking without relying on mobile access.Billable-hour businesses such as law firms, consultancies, and design agencies where tracking time per client or project is the primary workflow.Organizations with straightforward project structures that use milestones for phase tracking and do not require task dependencies or subtask hierarchies.Teams that require consistent, ad-hoc export of time and task data to CSV or PDF without configuration overhead for billing or client reporting.Firms needing per-task budget monitoring and milestone date management as core components of project financial oversight.

Where it struggles

Remote or field-based teams requiring mobile access for time entries and task updates, given the absence of a native mobile application.Organizations requiring granular access-level separation such as distinct manager, project-manager, or executive tiers beyond basic admin and member roles.Firms with complex approval chains needing customizable timesheet approval workflows that match firm-specific routing and sign-off processes.Projects involving task dependencies, custom status workflows, or subtask hierarchies, as the platform lacks these advanced task management controls.Mid-to-large teams or organizations that rely on real-time collaboration layers, document bulk exports, or cross-project dependency tracking.

Pricing tiers

Intervals pricing overview

Intervals uses an unusual active-project-based pricing model where every paid tier (except Lite) includes unlimited users. Lite is $29/month with 3 users and 3 active projects. Basic is $49/month with unlimited users and 10 active projects. Not so Basic is $69/month, Professional is $99/month for 30 projects, Premium is $149/month, Top Shelf is $199/month, and Unlimited is $259/month. Annual billing offers a 20% discount, and a 14-day (some sources cite 30-day) free trial requires no credit card. 'Active project' is defined as in-progress — completed projects set to inactive do not count against the monthly cap.

Lite

Tier 1 of 7

$29/month

What's included

3 users included3 active projectsTime tracking, task and project managementReports and analysisInvoicing, payments, document storage14-day free trial, no credit card

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What gets migrated

Intervals object support

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

Clients

Fully supported

Clients are the top-level organizational units in Intervals. The schema is flat — a client name, status, and contact references — and maps cleanly to most destination CRM or PM platforms' account/client objects.

People

Fully supported

People are user accounts with timesheet permissions and roles. We migrate People as team members, preserving their assigned access level and whether they are active or inactive.

Projects

Fully supported

Projects belong to Clients and contain Tasks and Milestones. The Project object carries budget, start/end dates, and status. We preserve project-to-client ownership during migration.

Milestones

Fully supported

Milestones are date-driven checkpoints within a Project. Each Milestone has optional comments. We preserve the milestone sequence and target dates, and re-link them to their parent Project in the destination.

Tasks

Fully supported

Tasks belong to Projects and optionally to Milestones. Each Task has its own comments. We preserve task ordering, status, assignees (People), and estimated vs. actual hours. Task-to-Milestone linkage is explicitly carried forward.

Task Comments

Mapping required

Task-level comments are threaded text entries attached to Tasks. Most destination platforms store these as activity notes or discussion threads — we map them to the equivalent comment/note object and flag any formatting differences in the scoping call.

Milestone Comments

Mapping required

Like Task Comments, Milestone Comments are threaded entries tied to Milestones. We apply the same comment-to-note mapping logic used for Task Comments.

Project Notes

Mapping required

Project Notes are standalone text entries scoped to a Project but not tied to Tasks or Milestones. We map these to the destination project's notes or description field.

Custom Activity Fields

Mapping required

Custom activity fields are user-defined properties attached to activities (time entries). These vary per account — we enumerate all active custom fields during the discovery phase and map each to a corresponding custom field in the destination.

Time Entries

Fully supported

Time entries are the primary data object in Intervals. Each entry records hours, a date, task association, and billable status. We preserve all entries chronologically and re-link them to their target Task records.

Documents

Not in this platform

Intervals stores attachments as documents, but the platform explicitly states that documents cannot be bulk exported — only individually downloaded. We flag this as a manual-step gap and do not attempt bulk document migration.

Gotchas

What to watch for in Intervals migrations

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

High

No bulk document export in Intervals

Medium

Custom activity fields are account-specific and require enumeration

Medium

No native bulk-import format for inter-object relationships

How a Intervals migration works

Four steps, Intervals-specific

Connect

API key (documented at www.myintervals.com/api/) into Intervals. Scopes limited to read-only on the data we move.

Map

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

Sample

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

Migrate

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

FAQ

Intervals migration FAQ

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

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Most Intervals 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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