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What Is LiquidPlanner?

LiquidPlanner is a Project Management solution powered by a predictive scheduling engine designed to help teams forecast accurate project timelines, optimize the allocation of people across the portfolio and rapidly adapt to change.

Use predictive scheduling to do scenario modeling, spot capacity bottlenecks and risk in real-time, and ensure teams are executing on the most important work. Plan work, predict the future, and perform beyond expectations with LiquidPlanner.

Who Uses LiquidPlanner?

Engineering, technology and manufacturing teams use LiquidPlanner’s Planning Intelligence to inform resource alignment, enhance collaboration and enable teams to deliver projects with confidence.

LiquidPlanner Software - My board view allows you to always know what you need to work on next so you're never guessing what the priority is for you. This is a personalized view of all your project work. This view allows you to understand your workload and balance accordingly.
LiquidPlanner Software - Time Sheets allow you to track how many hours are spent on tasks and projects, so you have deeper insights into where your time is spent. Time tracking allows you to collaborate with your team more efficiently,  to make the most of your team's time and re
LiquidPlanner Software - Dashboards provide a high-level summary that allows you to visualize all your projects, tasks, and priorities in one place. Here is where you can see if you're at risk of missing project deadlines across the portfolio of projects.
LiquidPlanner Software - Priority views is where you can drill down into the project details to assign tasks, set priorities, and easily assess schedule risk. This level of insight allows you to make changes to the project plan before deadlines are missed.
LiquidPlanner Software - This view visualizes your entire team's workload, which is unique to LiquidPlanner. This allows you to see bottlenecks in the project before missed deadlines. Automatic resource leveling helps to ensure a balanced workload across the team.

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Reviews of LiquidPlanner

Average score

Overall
4.3
Ease of Use
3.9
Customer Service
4.4
Features
4.1
Value for Money
4.0

Reviews by company size (employees)

  • <50
  • 51-200
  • 201-1,000
  • >1,001
Jose
Jose
Project Manager in US
Verified LinkedIn User
Chemicals, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Great project management tool, flexible and efficient to organize your workflow.

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: We utilize Liquidplanner to oversee different extend demands over the company, this device permits us to remain in touch with the venture ask, track which bunches are searching for work, and give reports. I'm binding together detailing and streamlining errand administration for a number of ventures and endeavors, Liquidplanner moreover makes a difference us superior oversee and apportion company assets. LiquidPlanner gives everybody in our office a centralized store to see what employments are within the line, what's coming up and what everybody is working on, it's important especially when somebody is out of town or debilitated and somebody else has to get things done. one or two assignments.

Pros:

LiquidPlanner client interface permits for a awesome bargain of customization, making it simple to collaborate with various inner groups and share data between divisions, we will track different ventures with LiquidPlanner insights. Ready to see the asked ventures, relegate them to the proper individual and meet the due date to guarantee all errands are done, I adore that LiquidPlanner is so adaptable in its applications, we will share records, communicate with clients and keep track of employments open and closed.

Cons:

I wish the involvement for clients (entry visitors, in specialized phrasing) would be more in tune with that of directors so that we seem more effortlessly taught clients in route, and so they have more adaptability in route. Not continuously client inviting and can be troublesome for amateur clients to handle the strategy, there's no settled list alternative on the input frame, fair a dropdown. A few highlights proposed by clients and on back gatherings never show up on the item guide or take a long time to execute.

Oluwadamilola
Operations Manager in Benin
Financial Services, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

An In-Depth Review of LiquidPlanner

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: Overall, LiquidPlanner is a great tool for managing projects. It has an intuitive user interface and powerful features that help users plan, track, and manage projects with ease. The cost can be a bit steep for some, but it is definitely worth it for those who need a comprehensive project management solution.

Pros:

LiquidPlanner is an incredibly powerful project management tool that helps users plan and manage projects with ease. It provides an intuitive user interface to help users easily navigate through the software, allowing them to quickly understand the process and get started. With LiquidPlanner, users can easily manage tasks and resources, track progress, collaborate with team members, and make sure that deadlines are met.

Cons:

While LiquidPlanner is a great tool, there are a few drawbacks. The cost of the software can be quite expensive for a small business, and the learning curve can be quite steep for new users. Additionally, the customer support could be improved, as sometimes it can take a while for them to respond to inquiries.

Samuel
Samuel
Product Manager in US
Verified LinkedIn User
Airlines/Aviation, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Project Management and Not Much Else

3.0 6 years ago

Comments: I do like the tool. It's fairly simple to learn. Menu structure and feature overload are intimidating at first, but you get over that (to an extent). iOS app is important to my team - quick reference to projects running is very good to have and many other products like LP don't have a mobile app at all. Overall, it's just not for me and my team. If there are better connections with development tools (Jira, BitBucket, Slack etc.) in the future, we may reconsider.

Pros:

It's easy to set up hierarchy and control a project using LiquidPlanner. Feature set is very good and there are few gaps. For project planners, it's a great tool because it allows you to assign tasks, add time, and see a Gantt chart in a few clicks.

Cons:

It's not for me. I'm in Product Management and my team was looking for a tool that will integrate with (or be less friction) with our current development tools. We currently use Atlassian (Jira, BitBucket) products for development and Google Sheets for our sprint management. The cons of LiquidPlanner is that it's a PROJECT tool, not a Product tool. I know LP probably doesn't plan on filling that need for a Product tool but there is a gap in that market and providing integrations with products like Atlassian could allow for LP to expand into a completely new market. All the features are there, just need to engineer some more automated and simplified ways of managing products, rather than large scale projects with LP.

Thomas
Operations Manager in UK
Construction, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

Liquid planner bridges the gap between manufacturing and construction.

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: We sit between manufacturing and construction, this system bridges the gap between a resource planner and project management tool. It is the only system we have found that makes intuitive changes to project dates based on changes to resource or changes to projects and assigned personnel.

Pros:

The software is intuitive combining both resource planning and project management, both systems influencing each other, giving accurate predictions based on real time information and updates.

Cons:

The Gant chart for individual and the overall project portfolio is very basic cannot be exported as a report. When changing priorities the effect of the change cannot be demonstrated against the previous expected finish dates as the previous dates are lost. It would be good if you could mock run a change of the project priority and the system showed the previous finish dates dates against the new dates, demonstrating the effect the priority change has on the project finish.Sending an email on significant project milestones would be a good feature.

Matthew
Senior Software Engineer in US
Biotechnology, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

LiquidPlanner Project Management that Works!

5.0 3 years ago

Comments: We consolidated a variety of tools (spreadsheets, Microsoft Project, email) into a single project management system used by the entire company. This streamlined our training and minimized our project management overhead. LiquidPlanner did a great job at what it claimed to do - project management.

Pros:

The product was simple to use. It was easy to for remote access since it is a SAAS. It did a great job keeping track of project tasks. Each task was simple to enter and simple to manage. Task attachments and checklists were nice features that gave additional information to the person doing the task and the project manager.

Cons:

The software has a specific mentality about project management. If you follow that mentality, the software is amazing. If you decide you know better, it will lead to lots of lost time in trying to gain metrics from LiquidPlanner. Our team was trained on the former, but decided to do it their own way for about 16 months. It was a long hard battle to get our management team to switch to the LP mentality. When they finally did, the tool just worked with minimal effort and overhead. So, more our issue than LPs, but LP could be more flexible.

Julian
Engineering Manager in US
Automotive, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Flexible and User Friendly

5.0 5 years ago

Comments: We have prevented primary resources from being over allocated. This shows where the bottle necks are and allows us to apply another resource to a particular task or project if needed.

Pros:

We enjoy the user friendly interface. It's easy to add\move tasks and adjust project plans. Calendar view is also great for reviewing the team's work load on a weekly or monthly basis. This provides a clear direction for all members of the team.

Cons:

It can become difficult to manage a work space with many projects (50+). Details can get lost and it can be overwhelming to users.

Jonathan
Freelancer in Canada
Marketing & Advertising, Self Employed
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Great platform, but you need to use it a lot to understand it

4.0 5 years ago

Comments: It was difficult to understand the platform at the beginning, but when you understand it, I really liked it. The thing is : I invested a lot of time just to understand it and you put the expensive price on top of that, at the end it costs me a lot more that it save in first 6 months.

Pros:

I really like that you can do a lot to help with your project management and team management. All the informations is in one place (you need to create a structure that represent your company and your staff) and everybody can find what he wants. It's easy to do follow-ups with clients. The best thing is that you don't need a few platforms to see the time left, the budget and the tasks.

Cons:

It took a lot of time to find LiquidPlanner easy to use and to find a structure that represent the company and our employees . The interface (or UX) is not simple. The price is a bit expensive if you have a small team.

Daniel
Implementation engineer in US
Medical Devices, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

LiquidPlanner

5.0 5 years ago

Comments: Im 100 % satisfied with LiquidPlanner love the ease of use.

Pros:

LiquidPlanner is my preferred online project management software quickly set up projects run analytics and provide real time updates to customers.

Cons:

There are very few issues I have but I’m not a fan of the limited ability to provide a quick giant chart back to my customers.

Daniel
Founder in US
Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Liquid Planner stands apart

5.0 4 years ago

Comments: I have used LiquidPlanner for managing R&D labs, New Product Development programs, and smaller project management efforts. It is easy to train others on and is great for tracking project progress and actual effort.

Pros:

Liquid Planner provides a real-to-life approach to project management. I love the way that they use a 3-point estimate for likely remaining effort for each task. This rolls up into a very useful, and dynamic estimate of project completion.

Cons:

Though there are work-arounds, it is sometimes frustrating that task dependencies are tedious to enter.

Addison
Solution Architect in US
Financial Services, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Addison LiquidPlanner Experience

4.0 last year

Pros:

Ease of deployment and utilization. Task and project management automation is another great aspect.

Cons:

The only issue is lack of iOS mobile application.

Calvin
Engineer in US
Food & Beverages, 501–1,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Prioritized Management Strategies

4.0 2 years ago

Comments: Right scheduling and perfect planning

Pros:

Capabilities of planning cores according to their priorities. Accessibility of all relevant information only to relevant people at right time.

Cons:

For the time I used tool no main downside I can record.

Kevin
President in US
Management Consulting, Self Employed
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

LiquidPlanner's Superpowers and its Impact on Your Profits

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: We wanted to increase On time Percentage of our Engineer to Order process to over 90% to get more business, which we did, increasing profits, along with the ability to take on more work and reduce chaos on the manufacturing plant floor. Basically a lever for profit making.

Pros:

The most basic difference between this software and others is a simple acceptance that task times vary. However, no other tools account for that, which leads to an unseen paradox. If you are estimating a project to be finished by using the average length of each task, then the predicted lead time will always be wrong! LiquidPlanner can be used as part of the Theory of Constraints Critical Chain Project Management process, which I have used to get OTP consistently over 95%.

Cons:

At this time, Critical Path is not available in the new version but is offered in the Classic version.

Lisa
Software Engineer in Germany
Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 501–1,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Feature-rich Project Management Software!

4.0 3 years ago

Comments: LiquidPlanner provides the best-customized data and special reports. Moreover, you can grant multiple permission letters to more than a hundred people. Additionally, with this premium software, you can record the daily working hours in your project. You can simply administer your activities and sort out them accordingly.

Pros:

LiquidPlanner works with a 3P strategy. Thus, this software works to plan, predict, and perform which is impeccable. So, it helps in aligning and managing your business in better ways. The LiquidPlanner has a better scheduling network and works by providing the best features for marketing trends. Additionally, you can also enjoy the free accounts here. LiquidPlanner is a highly productive tool. This software provides you with a helpful guide about the format and structure that you should follow for projects. Additionally, LiquidPlanner properly saves all your files and important documents without consuming much space. Thus, it is the better option to choose for storing significant data in one place. You should use the premium version to unlock other features.

Cons:

The most unwanted feature of this tool is the complex system. Thus, users find it hard to understand and operate the tool. So, there is a need for qualified skills to use its dashboard and further operations. LiquidPlanner only works for the basic features and doesn't provide any tested list opportunities. Additionally, this software doesn't work with the user-friendly mode and thus, at times users find it hard to manage it.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Marketing & Advertising, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Extremely Robust Project Management Software

5.0 5 years ago

Comments: We use LiquidPlanner for managing virtually everything within our business. From internal tasks to external client tasks. We even manage volunteer hours and PTO scheduling within LiquidPlanner, and we export all of our LP data into our accounting software for billing and invoicing. It's basically the backbone of our organization.

Pros:

LiquidPlanner makes tracking multiple large, complex projects possible and easy (after the initial learning curve). It provides fully customizable dashboards that can be set up per project or per user (or both) and robust reporting. It also allows you to get a good view of what's coming up in relation to how much bandwidth each user has to manage it, as well as how the team's bandwidth affects the project/task expected completion date. It just has SO MUCH!!!

Cons:

It has a fairly steep learning curve. Our team has been using LiquidPlanner for over 4 years and we are still learning various nuances of the platform or better implementations. Also, the UI could use a serious update and it's not at all mobile-friendly (the mobile app is also a joke). But none of that would deter us from using it because it provides so much value that we haven't been able to find in any other system.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Food Production, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

A versatile tool, adaptable to any project or process type.

4.0 6 years ago

Comments: Overall my experience has been good, but frustrating. It took a lot of effort and time to build out the templates I needed, and getting the team to adapt it has been a roller coaster. There are a lot of functionalities I haven't gotten to explore yet, because most of my time has been spent on maintenance of projects. That is just for my situation though, and I don't have a ton of extra time to devote to expanding my usage of reports and dashboards. I would really like to set up dashboards, I just haven't had time.

Pros:

I like that it allows me to make templates for projects, it really makes it a lot easier to start a project off. I also love that I can make custom fields, it really helps me to capture all of the important data for our type of process. Plus, everybody can choose which fields they see on their project dashboard, it helps to make sure each person only sees what is important to them and nothing superfluous.

Cons:

I really wish there was the capability to collaborate on documents - that really would make this the perfect tool. I have asked multiple times about that, but I don't think it is in the plan to add anytime soon. You can add a link to a cloud based shared file, but nothing on internal servers. Just adds an additional step to complete work.

Ann
Ann
Application Development Manager in US
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Great project management software even though it doesn't fit our needs 100% of the time.

4.0 7 years ago

Comments: I couldn't do my work every day without Liquid Planner. I am constantly referencing it and using it throughout the day.

Pros:

I like the way we can use this as a project management, time tracking, and a scheduling platform. So many other tools I've used only address one of these vital areas. The timers on each task are one of my favorite features of Liquid Planner. It makes it so easy to track time and see how accurate estimates really are on a given task or set of tasks. You can easily view progress, see overruns and areas of concern (there's a red fire icon), and put as many details in the actual task as you need. You can link tasks together, create dependencies, and perform other actions to get a realistic view of a project.

Cons:

Sometimes it is difficult to set up scheduling the way our company needs it to be represented. However Liquid Planner always seems to be putting out new features and their support team is very helpful in trying to help their clients find solutions.

David
David
Director of Academic Services and Technology in US
Verified LinkedIn User
Higher Education, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Cloud-based Project and Department Resources Management Tool of Choice

5.0 5 years ago

Comments: The customer support from LiquidPlanner has been excellent! We recently had some very helpful web conferences with the customer support team and found some new features we were previously unaware of.

Pros:

LiquidPlanner has been our project management software application since 2016. We manage hundreds of projects for six different clients and internal projects. With an agile team of 11 employees, this tool has allowed us to balance employee workloads, better predict time-to-market, and analyze our department efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

Cons:

It took nearly a year to real 'dial-in' the software to our unique use case. There was a lot of trial-and-error in the beginning and a number of hours spent with tech support from LiquidPlanner. However, we have the tool running very well for our processes now and find new areas of our business where the data from LiquidPlanner has been beneficial to decision-making.

Rebekah
Communications Specialist in US
Higher Education, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

LiquidPlanner review

5.0 3 years ago

Pros:

I have lots of projects going on at the same time, all the time. LiquidPlanner is SO helpful in keeping each project straight, and all the folders and projects within each project. I'm never working alone, so being able to see where my teammates are at in their projects helps me gauge where we're at overall. There are so many features about LiquidPlanner that I love and it's incredibly hard to pick just one to talk about!

Cons:

It has taken our team quite a bit of time to use LiquidPlanner to its more full potential. I know even now, we aren't using it to its full capacity. We have so much going on that we don't have the time to slow down and pick apart the features. It's a lot of trial by error and "I didn't know we could do that with LP!" is said pretty often -- which is a good thing!

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Marketing & Advertising, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Powerful project management tool

4.0 2 years ago

Pros:

LiquidPlanner is a powerful online tool for managing activities, workloads, and plans. This can automatically and dynamically schedule work for your entire team even when circumstances change.

Cons:

Setting up projects and learning to use them requires a lot of time. There is no interactive Gantt chart and no attachments other than images or milestones.

Ben
Head of Development Technologies in US
Verified LinkedIn User
Internet, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: GetApp

Expensive, complex, and extremely powerful.

4.0 7 years ago

Pros:

LiquidPlanner is quite customizable with different ways to view tasks and many different screens to visualize things in alternative contexts. For a project manager on the business side, it allows for very powerful organization of multiple projects and teams, and many possibilities for scheduling and prioritizing tasks. It allows for flexible time tracking using range estimates and a simple time entry view.

Cons:

It's easy to lose track of how many hours were actually approved for a task if you want to take advantage of the ability to re-estimate things on the fly. It can be slow to load and cumbersome to use. It can be difficult to find things in the overly complex Projects view. Search filters get reset every time you click a task link from someone else that doesn't match your existing filters. It's not always intuitive how to find things using the available search options (for example, unless you put the project name in every task title, searching for the project name doesn't do much good). Time entry takes a lot of clicks with recent updates if you need to add notes to each item. The API is complex to use (though powerful).

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Higher Education, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Effective Project Management Solution that can Adapt to Your Needs

5.0 5 years ago

Comments: The product and support are great. If you put the time and effort into learning the tool and you have complete buy-in from your team, you'll be successful with it.

Pros:

The solution is very flexible and, with internal discussion and buy-in, can effectively meet the needs of most organizations.

Cons:

The solution is built on the idea of priority-based work. Everything is essentially given a top-down rank of importance, with items either moving up or down the stack as needed. The system then adds resource capacity to predict when items will reach completion. We have enough projects, work efforts, tickets, etc. in motion concurrently that managing priority this way is more laborious than I'd like.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Hospitality, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Great and superb platform for project management.

5.0 4 years ago

Comments: I would recommend LP to organizations which want their teams to stay on track and,also be able to manage projects and tasks.

Pros:

It proves a comprehensive breakdown of projects and tasks,analysis and tracking. It's flexibility is also what that makes it the unique standout among all other products.

Cons:

At times it's UI is a little tough to navigate.Also the interface is a bit dated and could probably need a refreshing because it is so customizable and data heavy.

Chris
COO in UK
Internet, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Great for PM/OPs, bad for Devs & Creatives

4.0 8 years ago

Comments: I love it, however, our devs and creatives find it frustrating to use despite large amounts of training and personalisation. There are a number of tools that would make this more helpful and less painful to the "doers". Our business needs are well met, though there are other aspects that don't accomplish our requirements. Kanban, for example, as well as cross-team/project sprint planning whilst maintaining a weekly outlook. Finally, with the latest price hikes it doesn't feel "good value" and I'm now faced with justifying the expense when before it was self explanatory. This is compounded by exchange rates.

Pros:

I have recommended. I like the meld of planning and projection. I love the hi/lo estimations and the detail I can provide clients

Cons:

Useability for doers, especially timesheets Lack of integrations with SCM. Poor connectivity/communication for my clients; their portals don't show custom fields, board views or timelines for tickets/tasks. True Kanban is not feasible Sprint-based planning for cross-team/project resource is not possible alongside weekly overviews A desktop app would be great; especially for devs etc The mobile app hasn't changed since we started using this in 2012 and is highly impractical. Doesn't work well on ipads

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Information Technology & Services, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Mid Level Employee using softwar

4.0 6 years ago

Pros:

I like that i can put all my things on a ticket and keep track of them through the prcess of developmente. I can send things to other team mebers on them and keep all the information in one place

Cons:

It is hard to keep my baord clean. Say there are two developers on one ticket my status is in devleopmentt but I get doen I can't chagne the status on the ticket to be code review cause they are still working and it needs to be in devleopment for htem now I have two tickets in developmtn.

Rebecca
Rebecca
Technical Analyst in US
Verified LinkedIn User
Insurance, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Quick-Start Project Tracker

5.0 6 years ago

Comments: LiquidPlanner is a helpful tool that keeps my organization on task and accountable for meeting their deadlines. Communication on a task or project becomes easy even when team members are not in the office at one time.

Pros:

For people unfamiliar with any data or project tracking interfaces, the UI of LiquidPlanner has a very small learning curve. It is very easy to introduce new employees to it and have them working within it on the same day.

Cons:

The checklists within each task would benefit from some further customization. Expandable sub-sections where users could list some steps to complete before the user can check off that list item.