Comparison
Marque CRM vs Productive.io
Productive.io has strong resource management and profitability reporting — but per-user pricing and no site monitoring make it expensive for growing UK agencies. Compare it honestly with Marque CRM.
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The short version
Choose Productive.io if…
- • Profitability reporting and resource utilisation are the absolute top priority — above all else
- • You're a larger agency (20+ staff) where Marque's user caps become limiting
- • You don't manage client websites on retainer, so site monitoring isn't relevant
- • Budget is not a constraint and you want best-in-class in a specific category
Choose Marque if…
- • You want strong resource management without paying per seat as you grow
- • Site monitoring is part of your service offering and you need it built in
- • You need client health scores, white-label portal, and support ticketing alongside your PM tools
- • You serve e-commerce clients and need Shopify data in your CRM
What Productive.io does well
Productive.io has earned a strong reputation among mid-sized agencies for a reason. Its resource management is best-in-class: you can plan team capacity weeks and months out, forecast revenue based on scheduled work, and see actual vs. budgeted utilisation per person and per project. For agencies where margin visibility and resourcing discipline are the number one operational priority, Productive is a serious tool.
The profitability reporting goes deeper than most competitors. You can model scenarios, see where time is being lost to non-billable work, and drill into budget vs. actual at the task level. Finance leads and operations directors at larger agencies often cite this as the feature that keeps them on the platform.
Where Marque has the edge
Productive.io starts at $9/user/mo on their Essential tier, but most agencies need the Standard tier ($24/user/mo) for full features including resource scheduling. A 10-person agency on Standard pays $240/mo — roughly £190. Marque's Agency tier at £149/mo covers 15 users with everything included. As you grow from 10 to 15 people, Marque stays at £149. Productive.io grows to $360/mo.
Productive.io has no site monitoring capability. Agencies managing client websites — WordPress, Shopify, or bespoke — are still paying separately for uptime monitoring, SSL tracking, and plugin update notifications. Marque's Agency tier includes all of this natively. Every client site you manage is monitored from within the same platform you use for projects and billing. No second login, no second subscription, no data context-switching.
Pricing
Marque is a flat fee per agency, not per seat: Starter £29 , Grow £79 , Agency £149 a month, with 90 days free and no card to start. Hiring somebody does not change the bill until you run out of seats on your plan.
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