--- description: Review of Forecast Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs on Software Advice New Zealand. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: Forecast | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice NZ --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Resource Management Software](/directory/1296/resource-management/software) > [Forecast](/software/325098/forecast) # Forecast Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/325098/forecast Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/325098/forecast?page=2) > Forecast is a fully integrated scheduling platform that gives you the ability to organize your team's schedule into visual plans that let you map out your upcoming projects and make smarter resourcing decisions. With Forecast, you'll be able to: - View your team’s schedule in color-coded visual plans that make it easy to see how long a project is scheduled to take, who's working on what, and who's overbooked. - Assign people to projects and view your plans by project or people. Red bars indicate when an employee is overbooked, so you can move projects and deadlines around before they become burnt out. It's also easy to see when someone has the availability to take on a new project and exactly how much time they can devote to it. Share your plans with the entire team so everyone knows what they should be working on, and when. - Integrate Forecast with its sister app Harvest to gain insight into project progress and improve your estimating and scheduling. > > Verdict: Rated **4.3/5** by 31 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.3/5** | 31 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 3.9/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.0/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 70% | (7/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Harvest - **Founded**: 2006 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$6.25 - **Pricing model**: Per User (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: $5.00/user/month - **Target Audience**: 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500 - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong SAR China, India, Ireland, Israel, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates and 2 more ## Features - Access Controls/Permissions - Assignment Management - Availability Management - Calendar Management - Capacity Management - Collaboration Tools - Data Import/Export - Drag & Drop - Employee Management - Employee Scheduling - Forecasting - Gantt/Timeline View - Group Scheduling - Multiple Projects - Online Booking - Prioritisation - Project Management - Project Planning - Projections - Real-Time Data ## Integrations (1 total) - Harvest ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - Chat ## Category - [Resource Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/1296/resource-management/software) ## Related Categories - [Scheduling Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/4738/scheduling/software) - [Calendaring Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/4657/calendar-app/software) - [Resource Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/1296/resource-management/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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Clear colour coding allows for easy project scheduling. > > **Cons**: - Adding notes to projects can be limited > > Overall an easy to use interface for scheduling a team of staff for a variety of projects. ----- ### "Good product" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *4 May 2020* | Graphic Design | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: It makes it easy to schedule our team's days and weeks while also prioritizing projects. It also is helpful per team member to keep track of your projects, and set milestones for the projects ahead of time. > > **Cons**: The only thing I don't like about this software is when you shift things around if a new project comes in or an old drops off, it's a little challenging to do because you have to click every single element after that project. Would be easier if there was a "bump" feature of some sort. > > Overall, it's a very helpful tool that keeps our business running. I think it's a great tool and would recommend to others. ----- ### "An early beta product that doesn’t work, with a premium product price and arrogant culture" — 1.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *12 March 2022* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 0.0/10 > > **Pros**: What it is supposed to do, in theory, is a great concept. However, in practice, it doesn’t deliver and is a waste of time and money. > > **Cons**: The product has many fundamental flaws. For example, if you charge a deposit for a project via Forecast, it doesn’t actually credit the deposit against completed work. It is a half baked beta project. > > When we raised issues with the product, they refused to accept the premise of the issue and ridiculed us. When it finally became impossible to reject the obvious flaws in the product, they asked us to help them design the solutions. I have no issues giving ideas to a startup to help them improve the product, but I am less inclined to do so after being treated poorly. ----- ### "Useful tool for planning team members' time but not the most intuitive" — 4.0/5 > **Jack** | *17 January 2019* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 6.0/10 > > **Pros**: Forecast's direct integration with Harvest (time tracking) makes it a simple and easy process to assign tasks to a team member in Forecast and have it automatically appear in Harvest for them to log time against, helping streamline the process and reducing the number of steps. > > **Cons**: While the interface for Forecast is fairly easy to use, it isn't all that intuitive. It can be difficult to see what a team member is working on, and if there's a few people on the team, there is a lot of faffing around to open up each team member's list and see what they're assigned to. > > Overall, Forecast is a time saver for managing teams, and the feedback from the team members is that it helps co-ordinate their week ahead and know what they need to be working on. If they can work on improving the design and layout, it could be the perfect team management system. ----- ### "Forecast is great for project management for timelines/resources -- goodbye static gant charts." — 4.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *3 July 2018* | Biotechnology | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: The reporting and planning of project timelines is so simple with forecast. Once you learn where the UI controls are, it is easy to report over timelines and view data. I love that you can zoom in and out between how granular data is. It is really easy to tell what is going with just one glance at the screen. > > **Cons**: Setting up clients, employees and projects can be cumbersome. Once the entire thing is set up, it is easy to modify or edit -- but getting our things in order to get it all inside of forecast took some time. That combined with slower page load times on the app (when we were using it at least) made it a bear to onboard. > > We get an agreed upon view of what is going on -- our management knows the project schedules and our employees know where they will be allocated in the future. That also means we can prevent time collisions for project planning purposes and figure out where we went wrong if timelines are missed. ----- Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/325098/forecast?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/325098/forecast) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | | fr | | ----- ## Structured Data