Best Scoro Alternatives for Agencies in 2026

Scoro is a capable platform. It connects quotes, projects, resourcing, and billing, and plenty of agencies run on it without complaint. When people do go looking for something else, the reasons tend to be specific, so it helps to name them before comparing tools.

Why Agencies Look Past Scoro

The first reason is the entry cost. Scoro's pricing page lists four preset plans, from Time-billing at $17 per user per month to End-to-end at $57, and every one of them requires at least 5 users. A three-person studio pays for five seats from day one.

The second is what costs extra. QuickBooks and Xero integrations are listed as paid extras, and the customer portal is a paid add-on. The sales CRM and pipeline come with the End-to-end preset, so an agency that wants quoting, CRM, and billing together ends up on the top plan.

The third shows up in reviews. Scoro holds a 4.5 on Capterra from 262 reviews, and reviewers keep describing it as overwhelming at first and expensive for small teams. That doesn't make it a bad product. It's built for firms that will use most of it.

Every price below comes from the vendor's own pricing page, checked on September 15, 2026. Ratings are Capterra averages from the same day.

Scoro Alternatives at a Glance

Teamwork.com

Teamwork.com grew up as project management and has added billing and resourcing over the years. If your agency thinks in projects and tasks first, it will feel familiar fast.

Basics is $9.99 per user per month billed annually with a 3-seat minimum, but invoicing from logged time, retainer budgets, and QuickBooks start on Accelerate at $24.99 with a 5-seat minimum. Profitability reporting sits on Optimize, which is quote-only. There's a free plan for up to 5 users and a 14-day trial.

Reviewers mention pages that slow down on large projects and an interface that feels busy at first. Next to Scoro, you pay less for invoicing and retainers, and more once you want deep financial reporting.

Productive

Productive is built for agencies and consultancies, and its strength is resource planning tied to budgets. Its published pricing lists Essential at $10 per user per month billed annually ($12 monthly) and Professional at $25 annually ($29 monthly), with Ultimate by quote. No seat minimum is stated, clients can be added as users at no charge, and there's a 14-day trial.

For an agency leaving Scoro over the 5-seat floor, Productive is the closest like-for-like option. It covers resourcing, budgets, a sales CRM, and invoicing, exports invoices to QuickBooks Online, and connects to Xero. Reviewers do mention a learning curve and reporting that feels clunky, so run the trial with your own retainers.

BigTime

BigTime sells itself as the financial brain behind every project, and it's aimed more at accounting, consulting, engineering, and IT firms than agencies. It earns a spot here because of accounting. QuickBooks Desktop and Online are integrated on every plan, and it syncs with Xero and Sage Intacct too, where Scoro charges extra for the connection.

Essentials starts at $20 per user per month, and the higher tiers aren't priced on BigTime's site. A client payment portal comes with the upper plans. Reviewers point to a weak mobile app, a dated interface, and accounting sync that doesn't always run cleanly.

Function Point

Function Point is built for creative agency owners and doesn't pretend to be anything else. Standardize is $53 per user per month billed annually ($58 monthly) and Optimize is $62 ($68 monthly), plus an onboarding fee that isn't published.

You get a sales pipeline, campaign and project budgets, resource forecasting by role, batch invoicing, and a client portal, with QuickBooks Online on Optimize. Per seat, that's in the same range as Scoro's End-to-end plan for a tool designed entirely around agency work. Many of its Capterra reviews are several years old and mention training time and lag, so judge the current version in a trial.

Workamajig

Workamajig is for advertising and marketing agencies that want accounting inside the same system instead of synced to it. Pricing is $49 per user per month at 10 or more users, $47 at 25, and $45 at 50, with a month free on annual payment. The pricing page doesn't mention a trial.

It includes a full accounting package, resourcing, a sales CRM on the Agency plan, and unlimited client and vendor logins. Reviewers are consistent about the downside, which is a clunky interface with a lot of clicking.

Accelo

Accelo covers much of the same ground as Scoro: quotes, retainers, capacity forecasting, and profitability, with QuickBooks Online and Xero integrations listed. It bought the resource forecasting platform Forecast in 2025. Pricing is quote-only, with no public trial.

Reviewers describe a steep learning curve and slow pages, though most of those reviews predate the Forecast merger. Our founder ran his agency on Accelo for years before Vantage existed, so read our Accelo alternative post knowing where he's coming from.

Kantata

Kantata, formerly Mavenlink, is for bigger firms. It sells to mid-market and enterprise services companies, prices by quote, and goes deep on resource management and project financials, with a strong Salesforce connection. Leaving Scoro because it feels like too much tool? Kantata goes the other way. If you've outgrown Scoro, it's worth a call.

Harvest and Harvest Forecast

Some agencies leaving Scoro realize they don't need full agency management software. Harvest handles time tracking and invoicing, with QuickBooks and Xero on every plan, for $9 per seat per month on Teams billed annually. Forecast adds scheduling for $5 per person per month, billed separately, and both come with 30-day trials. There's no native CRM, so it fits teams under about 10 people with simple billing.

How to Pick

Start with the reason you're leaving. The seat minimum is easy to escape: Productive states none, Harvest starts at one seat, and Teamwork.com's Basics plan needs three. For QuickBooks included in the price, BigTime and Harvest are the obvious candidates. Agencies that want a tool built around creative work should compare Function Point and Workamajig, and if Scoro is starting to feel small, Kantata is the call to make.

Whatever you shortlist, run a real trial. Set up one retainer, one fixed-fee project, and one hourly client, and send all three invoices before you decide.

Vantage (Our Product, in Early Access)

We build Vantage, so weigh this section accordingly. It's a PSA for digital agencies with 5 to 50 people that keeps clients, projects, tickets, time tracking, and invoicing in one place, including retainers with hour drawdown and QuickBooks Online sync. It also has an encrypted vault for client logins.

Published pricing is $49 per user per month billed annually or $59 monthly, with every feature included. Vantage is in early access and doesn't have public reviews yet. If that works for you, join the waitlist.

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