Side by Side Feature Comparison

Top New Features

Feature		CLASSIC	NEW
Advanced Scheduling Limits	Daily, weekly, and monthly limits available for tasks, sub-folders, projects, and packages
Dedicated Template Feature	Create new projects from pre-built templates with a single click.
Slack Integration	Stay informed of assignments and changes within your work.
Custom Task Status	Customize your task status options to match your team's workflow.
Optimized to Scale	Built to handle thousands of people, projects, and tasks
New Modern Interface	Updated, colorful, and powerful user interface to make it easy to execute work
Enhanced Access Controls	Determine what users can see AND do.
Advanced Group Associations	Members can belong to one or multiple groups to model teams and departments, plus set access controls.
Built-in Learning Academy	In-app learning to help enhance your project management skills
Flexible Availability Settings	Daily and weekly working times that can have specific start and end dates

Smart Scheduling

Feature		CLASSIC	NEW
Real-time Updates	Schedule updates automatically without a "schedule ready" button.
Predictive Scheduling	Forecast when work will be done with a scheduling engine that dynamic adapts to change.
Automatic Resource Leveling	Eliminate overload & improve utilization with automatic resource leveling across projects
Priority Based Planning	Align everyone around what matters most with priority-based planning
Ranged Estimation	Capture uncertainty in your plan with best-case worst-case estimation
Integrated Time Tracking	Instantly update the schedule with logged progress & see where time really goes
Smart Schedule Bars	Know exactly when work will finish based on the uncertainty built into your estimates
Optimized to Scale	Built to handle thousands of people, projects, and tasks
Daily Scheduling Limits	Daily limits on projects and tasks
Advanced Scheduling Limits	Daily, weekly, and monthly limits available for tasks, sub-folders, projects, and packages
Flexible Availability Settings	Daily and weekly working times that can have specific start and end dates
Custom Task Status	Customize your task status options to match your team's workflow.
Work Limit	Work Limit caps the number of hours to work on an item and once it's set, Work Limit Delta calculates automatically to keep you on track.
Wait Times	Tells the scheduling engine how many days to wait after the predecessor dependencies are satisfied before starting the successor task
ASAP Scheduling Tags	Set an ASAP tag on a task to set priority overrides within the project, package, or workspace.

Project & Portfolio Management

Feature		CLASSIC	NEW
Collections	Active, Pending, Archive, and Template Collections to group projects and keep your portfolio organized
Portfolio Views	Manage all of your projects in a prioritized Portfolio View
Project Views	Manage your project details, tasks, & assignments in Project Views
Board Views	Experience Board Views for projects, packages, team members, & groups
Grid Views	Experience Grid Views at all levels of the project portfolio
Workload Views	Stay on top of your team's workload across all projects or a single project
Alerts & Insights	Gain visibility to schedule risk in real-time & have useful information to resolve it
Schedule Insights	Leverage data-driven insights to improve project performance
Dependencies	Use finish-to-start dependencies on packages, projects, sub-folders, & tasks
Target Start (Delay Until) & Target Finish (Deadline)	Use target dates to guide predictive scheduling and know if you can meet your deadlines
Stop Scheduling after Target Finish	Control whether you want work to push out beyond your target finish date
Change Tracking	Easily see any changes to the project or portfolio in one consolidated view
Delete and Recover Items	Easily restore items and manage who can do this with Access Controls
Portfolio-wide Search	Search across portfolio collections to quickly find work
Dedicated Template Feature	Create new projects from pre-built templates with a single click.
Slack Integration	Stay informed of assignments and changes within your work
Single Sign-On (SSO)	Integrates LiquidPlanner with your corporate SSO solution

Workload Management

Feature		CLASSIC	NEW
Flexible Availability	Daily and weekly working times that can have specific start and end dates
Events / Out of Office	Add time blocks for when you or the team are out of the office
Portfolio Workload Views	Stay on top of your team's workload across all projects
Project Workload Views	See and manage workload specific to a single project
Member Workload Views	See and manage workload specific to a team member or modeling resource
Group (Team) Workload Views	See and manage workload specific to a group of users
Visibility Access Controls	Determine what users can see
Action Access Controls	Determine what users can do

Task Management

Feature		CLASSIC	NEW
Multiple Assignments	Create multiple assignments within a single task to track all the work that needs to be done
Tracking Only	When you need to track time, but you don't need Predictive Scheduling to calculate dates
Deleting Time Restores Estimate	When you delete a time entry, time is automatically added back to your remaining estimate
Personal Work Views	Team members get a personalized Workload, Board, and Timesheet View to help them get the right work done
Document Linking	Link to external document programs like Google Drive, Dropbox, or Box
File Attachments	Attach important files to any plan item
Timesheet Review & Export	Review and export timesheet data for specific members, groups, or projects
Timesheet Locking	One click Timesheet locking by member, group, project or workspace.
Task Export	Export project data, time tracking entries, and rate sheet information for billing
Billing Rates	Add specific billing rules that can be used on projects to calculate cost

Reports & Data Customization

Feature		CLASSIC	NEW
Favorite Views	Create favorites for views that you access over and over again
Custom Task Status	Customize your task status options to match your team's workflow
Custom Color Choice	Add color to tasks, sub-folders, projects, and packages
Custom Data Fields	Enrich categorization and analysis by adding your own properties to packages, projects, members, and tasks
Client Field	Associate your projects with specific clients for filtering and reporting
Smart Widgets for Dashboards	Choose from a variety of dynamic widgets in the gallery to customize your dashboards
Project Dashboards	One-click set-up to visualize work and see real time scheduling insights for projects
Package Dashboards	One-click set-up to visualize work and see real time scheduling insights for a package of projects
Custom Workspace Dashboards	Customize dashboards to focus on desired data across the portfolio
Intake Form	Streamline how new project or tasks are added through a customizable form
Custom Cost Codes (Activities)	Categorize how time is being spent and associate cost codes with assignments, tracking, and rate sheets
Member Groups	Members can belong to one or multiple groups to model teams and departments, plus set access controls
Placeholders	Assign work that doesn't need to be scheduled or tracked
Modeling Resources (Virtual Members)	Plan, schedule, and track work for non-users or machines
Multiple Workspaces	Plan work for different departments, subsidiary companies, or projects you'd like to keep separate
API	Add new plan items, update existing plan items, get data about plan items, get logged time entries, download into an Excel File.

Account & Billing

Feature		CLASSIC	NEW
Multiple Users in Different Workspaces	All billing is done at the organization level, with users belonging to multiple workspaces
Flexible Billing Terms	Monthly, Quarterly, Semi-annual, and Annual subscriptions
Support & Feedback	Contact us through the app to get help, provide feedback or book time with a Product Advisor