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Built-in project management

Orizen Project Management.
Your projects delivered, on time,
without a pointless status meeting.

Organise, assign, track. Orizen connects your project to your quote, your tasks to your team, and your delivery to your invoicing. One tool, no friction.

Automatic link: quote → project → invoice
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The full article

Beyond the methods, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, there are teams who deliver. Which ones actually move to an integrated project tool, what it changes day to day, and why we designed Orizen Project Management without imposing a method or a vendor's vocabulary.

I Who it is for

A project tool built for the people who deliver, not for the people who describe the method in meetings.

Project management in a small company is rarely a shortage of tools, it is an excess of them. Trello for the tasks, Drive for the deliverables, Excel for the hours, email for the rest. Four profiles keep coming back to us.

Agency, IT consultancy, engineering firm

You run 5 to 20 client projects at once. Each has its milestones, its team, its deliverables. For now: Trello, Drive, Excel, and a lot held in people's heads.

Every project in one pipeline, with the customer, the team, the signed quote, the hours logged and the deliverables, all attached to the same record.

Owner steering their own projects

Mid-month, you do not know which of your projects is late or over budget. You find out when it is time to invoice.

An overview per project: progress, team, running margin, slippage alerts. Steering becomes continuous rather than after the fact.

Overloaded project manager

Trello for the tasks, Excel for the hours, Asana for the tracking, Drive for the deliverables. You spend more time reporting than doing.

One screen. Task kanban, customer milestones, time logged, deliverables, without switching tools. The reporting writes itself.

Tradesperson, construction, site management

You run several sites at once: quotes, delivery milestones, before and after photos, customer sign-off at each stage.

One project per site, milestones shared with the customer through the portal, photos and certificates stored where they belong. No more scattered WhatsApp and text messages.

II The project, finally connected

Your projects deserve better than spreadsheets and emails.

The visual detail below: the usual friction, what Orizen does instead, and how a signed quote becomes a project and then an invoice, with nothing to copy, nobody to chase and no third-party tool.

What you still do today

Your projects deserve better
than spreadsheets and emails.

Tracking by email

The project's progress lives in endless email threads. There is no way to know where each task stands without chasing every team member by hand.

Task spreadsheets, disconnected

Your schedule is in a Google Sheet, your tasks in Trello, your deadlines in an email. Nothing links the project to the original quote or the final invoice.

No link between project and invoicing

Your project is finished but the closing invoice lives in another tool. Delivery and payment are joined up by hand, and things get forgotten.

How it works in Orizen

Everything you need.
Nothing you do not.

Stages and milestones

Structure each project into phases and milestones. Set target dates, follow progress live, and spot delays before they become critical.

Assigned tasks

Assign each task to a team member with a due date. Everyone sees their own workload. Automatic notifications do away with chasing people by hand.

Dependencies and templates

Set dependencies between tasks so the wrong work does not get unblocked too early. Build reusable project templates to start faster.

Quote → project → invoice, joined up

The signed quote creates the project automatically. Delivery triggers the closing invoice. The whole commercial chain is connected, with nothing retyped.

Built into Orizen

Project management is not
a module off on its own. It links up.

  • Quote approved → project created automatically : nothing to recreate by hand
  • Project delivered → closing invoice : delivery triggers the billing
  • Same team as the CRM and sales : one staff directory, not three
  • Customer notified at key milestones : a dedicated client portal for visibility
  • Time logged → project profitability : compare planned against actual
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Quote signed in Orizen
The sales cycle moves to "Won"
2
Project created automatically
Structured from the chosen template
3
Team assigned, tasks handed out
Automatic notifications to the team
4
Milestones delivered, customer notified
Client portal updated in real time
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Final delivery → invoice issued
Billing triggered from the project
III How it goes

No "implementation project". You start with a project, not with a requirements document.

Three clear milestones, with no consultant living on site: a team steering its projects from the first week, and a quote to project to invoice cycle that falls into place with nothing to copy.

Day 1 · First project

Your first structured project by the afternoon.

  • A project created from a signed quote, or from scratch
  • Project stages tailored with you
  • Team invited and tasks assigned
  • Client portal switched on, milestones shared
Week 1 · The full cycle

Quote → project → invoice, with nothing to copy.

  • A project created automatically on every signed quote
  • Time tracking switched on for the team
  • First invoice triggered from a milestone reached
  • A guided video call with a human from Orizen included
Month 1 · Continuous steering

You stop discovering the overruns at month-end.

  • Live project profitability view
  • Slippage alerts: missed deadlines, margin below target
  • Weekly customer report sent automatically
  • Projects compared with each other: duration, margin, team
IV Frequently asked questions

The answers to the questions we get asked most.

What is project management software and who needs it?

Project management software brings the stages, tasks, milestones and team of a customer project together in one place. For a small company, it is the tool that turns a signed quote into a controlled delivery, without losing information in emails, spreadsheets or sticky notes. Any organisation that delivers work as jobs benefits from it: agencies, IT consultancies, construction, consulting, trades. From the third or fourth parallel project, keeping track without a dedicated tool becomes unstable.

How much does project management software cost?

Project management tools generally run between €8 and €40 per user per month. Orizen Project Management is part of the Orizen modular approach: no extra cost for users who already have the CRM or the invoicing module. The free 14-day trial covers every feature, with no commitment.

How do I go from a signed quote to a structured project without retyping?

As soon as a quote is signed electronically in Orizen, a project is created automatically with the customer, the amount, the promised delivery date and the quote lines, which can become stages or deliverables. The team is notified and the project appears in the pipeline. Nothing to retype, nothing to copy from the CRM into an external tool.

How do I track the time spent on each project?

Each team member logs their hours against tasks, or uses the one-click timer. The profitability report refreshes live: you see straight away what margin each project is making against the signed quote. Particularly useful for agencies, IT consultancies, freelancers and engineering firms.

Can my customers follow the project live?

Yes, through the Orizen client portal. Each project can be shared with your customer in read-only mode. They see the milestones passed and the deliverables available in real time, and can comment directly in the portal. No more "where are we?" emails: your customer has the answer live.

How do I share files and deliverables without Drive or Dropbox?

Every project has a built-in file space, open to your team and to your customer through the portal. You drop the deliverables there (PDFs, images, videos) and your customer opens them directly, with no Drive permissions to manage and no external Dropbox links. The files stay attached to the project, inside the history of the relationship.

Customer feedback

What it changes
in the team's day-to-day.

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We were juggling Trello, Google Sheets and email to follow our projects. Since we moved to Orizen, a signed quote creates the project in one click, and the invoice goes out automatically on delivery. We have gained 3 to 4 hours a week on tracking alone.

TM
Thomas M. Head of projects · Digital agency, 12 people
V What we believe

Why we built Orizen Project Management differently.

We have seen too many project managers juggle Trello, Excel, Asana and a shared Drive file, and lose half their energy reporting on work they had already done.

We have seen too many signed quotes vanish into a mailbox with no structured project behind them, until a customer asked "so, where are we?" three weeks later.

We have seen too many companies discover their overruns at invoicing time, and find the expected margin gone without knowing exactly where it went.

So we built Orizen Project Management. One screen: the project, its stages, its team, its customer. From signed quote to delivered project without switching tools, because a project delivered on time starts with a project properly tracked.

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