Who Uses Resource Guru?
Resource Managers, Project Managers, Producers and anyone else who needs to schedule resources for projects.
What Is Resource Guru?
The fast, simple way to schedule people & other resources online! Get team visibility on one clever calendar. Drag & drop bookings in seconds. Manage vacation & other types of time off. An availability bar helps with capacity planning. Clash management helps you stay in control. Dashboards, email notifications & calendar sync mean everyone's up to speed. Powerful reports let you monitor utilization rates. No software to install. From only $2.50 per person/month. Sign up for a 30-day free trial.
Resource Guru Details
Resource Guru
http://www.resourceguruapp.com
Founded 2011
Resource Guru pricing overview
See pricing plansResource Guru does not have a free version but does offer a free trial. Resource Guru paid version starts at US$2,50/month.
Starting Price
US$2,50/month See pricing details
Pricing Details
From only $2.50 per person/month
Free Version
No
Free Trial
Yes, get a free trial
Resource Guru deployment and support
Support
- Business Hours
- Online
Deployment
- Cloud, SaaS, Web
Training
- Documentation
Resource Guru Features
Advertising Agency Software
- Campaign Management
- Collaboration
- Document Management
- File Sharing
- Project Management
- Task Management
- Time Tracking
Attendance Tracking Software
- Calendar Management
- Employee Scheduling
- FMLA Tracking
- Overtime Calculation
- Reporting/Analytics
- Self Service Portal
- Time Tracking
Employee Scheduling Software
- Automated Scheduling
- Messaging
- Mobile Access
- Online Time Clock
- Payroll Management
- Reporting/Analytics
- Resource Management
- Schedule Distribution
- Shift Swapping
Leave Management System Software
- Approval Process Control
- Calendar Management
- Employee Scheduling
- FMLA Tracking
- Leave & Absence Reporting
- Leave Policy Management
- Self Service Portal
Professional Services Automation Software
- Billing & Invoicing
- CRM
- Client Portal
- Collaboration Tools
- Document Management
- Portfolio Management
- Project Management
- Proposal Generation
- Quote Management
- Resource Management
- Time & Expense Tracking
Project Management Software
- Agile Methodologies
- Budget Management
- Client Portal
- Collaboration Tools
- Cost-to-Completion Tracking
- Customizable Templates
- Gantt Charts
- Idea Management
- Kanban Board
- Milestone Tracking
- Portfolio Management
- Resource Management
- Time & Expense Tracking
- Traditional Methodologies
Project Planning Software
- Agile Methodologies
- Budget Management
- Collaboration Tools
- Due Date Tracking
- Gantt Charts
- Kanban Board
- Prioritization
- Progress Tracking
- Resource Management
- Task Management
- Template Management
- Traditional Methodologies
Project Tracking Software
- Collaboration Tools
- Cost-to-Completion Tracking
- Gantt Charts
- Kanban Board
- Milestone Tracking
- Percent-Complete Tracking
- Prioritization
- Status Tracking
- Time & Expense Tracking
Remote Work Software
- Collaboration
- Electronic Signature
- Employee Activity Monitoring
- Live Chat
- Meeting Management
- Remote Access
- Remote Support
- Softphone
- Task Management
- Time Zone Tracking
- Video Chat
- Web Conferencing
Resource Management Software
- Capacity Management
- Collaboration Tools
- Drag & Drop
- Forecasting
- Reporting/Project Tracking
- Resource Scheduling
- Search/Filter
- Skills Tracking
- Utilization Reporting
Scheduling Software
- Alerts/Notifications
- Appointment Scheduling
- Automated Scheduling
- Class Scheduling
- Employee Scheduling
- Facility Scheduling
- Group Scheduling
- Multi-Location
- Real-time Scheduling
- Resource Scheduling
- Room Booking Management
Workforce Management Software
- Budgeting/Forecasting
- Contractor Management
- Employee Lifecycle Management
- Employee Scheduling
- Labor Forecasting
- Performance Metrics
- Recruitment Management
- Skills Tracking
- Time & Attendance Management
- Variable Workforce
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Resource Guru Reviews
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Average score
Myroslav P.
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Overall Rating5 /5
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Ease of Use5 /5
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Features & Functionality4 /5
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Customer Support5 /5
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Value for Money5 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 2020/02/03
"Simple and very easy to use resource scheduling\tracking app."
Comments: Resource Guru is a great resource scheduling application for a simple use cases. It does what it promises perfectly. The UI is very friendly and pleasant - make for a great user experience. I used it to track the tasks for my team for almost a year. I would have kept using it but the company mandated a different tracking system and I had to abandon it. I like that Resource Guru'a focus on their product and customer service. I also appreciated the slow introduction of new features. Overall, very pleasant and satisfactory experience with a great application.
Pros:
- Ease of use
- Very pleasant UI
- Flexibility
Cons:
- Lack of features. The application does the simple scheduling\tracking perfectly though.
- Copy\paste of resource tasks was not available at the time
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 2020/02/03
Pj S.
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Overall Rating4 /5
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Ease of Use5 /5
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Features & Functionality4 /5
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Customer SupportUnrated
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Value for Money4 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 2021/01/25
"Clean, easy to use software with lots of room for growth"
Comments: Overall, Resource Guru has been a welcome addition to our operational process. I have thoroughly enjoyed using the software so far and it has certainly made things easier on myself and my team. Although I have a long list of things I think the software can improve on, I hope to work with the development team to open a dialogue on these additions. I know that our application for the software may be unique, but I'm sure the developments will be appreciated by others as well.
Pros: Resource Guru is a very clean-looking software that provides an ease of use unlike I've seen in other products. No training was required to bring my team online with the software, much of it is intuitive. I appreciate the professional look and feel as well as the simplistic interface. Filtering is something that is crucial to our business, and while I love the functionality of it there is definitely room for improvement. Through implementing small workarounds we were able to bring this software online for a team of over 100 field service engineers with very short turnaround (less than three weeks of overlap between the old software and Resource Guru).
Cons: While Resource Guru provides a clean and simple software, at times I find it too simple. There are some features that are built in some places but not others. For example I have the option of custom tags for filtering Resources. I can build out a filter for region, city, desired schedule, skillets, or even favorite food if I want to. However, none of this applies to Projects. I would love to be able to filter projects by region, city, state, or custom tags like skillset and software required. It seems to me that the exact same functionality could be copied and pasted over to Projects. There are other minor tweaks to be made, like exiting a window. Sometimes I am met with an "are you sure you want to exit" window because I'm currently editing something, but more often than not I am allowed to simply click outside the window or hit escape and all of the editing in progress is lost. Furthermore, it would be nice to be able to input repeating holidays or events. For example, New Year's Day is always on January 1st. Why do I have to scroll forward and manually input this holiday every year? It would be great to just set it and forget it. Another addition I would love to see is the ability to mark jobs/projects as tentative or unconfirmed. This could be in the form of a checkbox that adds a gradient to the job so it looks different than the rest. Something simple to differentiate it from confirmed projects is all I'm looking for.
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 2021/01/25
Verified Reviewer
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Overall Rating1 /5
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Ease of Use1 /5
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Features & Functionality1 /5
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Customer SupportUnrated
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Value for Money1 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
- Reviewer Source
- Source: GetApp
- Reviewed on 2019/07/08
"Glorified spreadsheet"
Comments: Causes more problems than it solves. We used to use a spreadsheet, it was much better than this.
Pros: Nothing at all. It has no redeeming qualities.
Cons: Allows you to book time without tasks. When asked to change this was told couldn't because some companies want that function, ie it isn't an option as it should be. The drop downs are fiddle and make it easy to select a blank, but doesn't warn you. Can't toggle between scrolling list and typing to search without cl king out of area. You have a set number of hours per day you need to book but it doesn't highlight those that are short- you have to hover to see remaining time but that function doesn't work properly, resulting in multiple clicks to get it to trigger. Colour by project doesn't actually do it, I'm on 6 projects yet only see 2 colours. Can push to calendar but not pull- useless function as meetings are booked in calendar to allow invites, you want guru to pull that data in to autofill. Though it is web based it is impossible to use on a mobile. The popups are always off screen, making it impossible to use - mobile friendly websites have been around for a very long time, lazy to not have it here, particularly as would allow people who are on the road to log their time on he go. Not worth the hassle even if free.
- Reviewer Source
- Source: GetApp
- Reviewed on 2019/07/08
Ross O.
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Overall Rating5 /5
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Ease of Use5 /5
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Features & Functionality5 /5
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Customer Support5 /5
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Value for Money5 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 2021/01/28
"Daily Resource Guru user"
Comments: As mentioned above, the web based ease of use and reporting functionality make Resource Guru a trusted tool for maintaining and tracking our resource based projects. Highly recommend!
Pros: My company chose Resource Guru because of the web based interface. We've stayed for the ease of use and robust reporting functionality. We are able to extract daily, monthly, and yearly (or custom) reports and easily create Excel pivot tables for internal analyzing. This feature alone is extremely beneficial to our company.
Cons: No dark theme. It's only a minor thing but would really like to see the quality of life feature added to future versions.
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 2021/01/28
Isabella H.
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Overall Rating5 /5
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Ease of Use5 /5
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Features & Functionality4 /5
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Customer Support5 /5
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Value for Money5 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 2019/11/25
"Extremely handy software, easy to use, visibly appealing, great to manage and schedule."
Comments: Positive, I do enjoy managing RG for our company. My company want us to migrate and start using the schedule planned for Office 365, but I had to push back and explain that this software is up to date, already does everything we need it too and Office 365 still has a long way to go before we can use it for what we want. It's safe to stick with RG that we know how to work, we know what it does and what i can't do and it works, no need to change something that isnt broken.
Pros: I like the appearance of the software - its clear, self explanatory, easy to navigate, see the bigger picture to jiggle schedule resource about, etc. I like how easy and quickly the support team are there to assist when needed. I like how it shows you who has booked what and the daily reminders via email of what is coming up, etc.
Cons: It isn't a negative but I would like to have a scheduling log, to see at what time and date did someone book a slot onto the schedule. I manage the Creative Studio, depending how many campaigns and the urgency in hitting these deadlines, I need to keep track of the entire departments availability, knowing when i can move things around in order to deliver last min projects. Only myself should have booking access, but I currently share it with Creative Directors, so they can schedule in my absence, but I can't see when they have booked them in so i can keep track. Is this something you could implement, please? Thanks,
Vendor Response
by Resource Guru on 2019/11/27
Hi Isabella
Thanks for the great review - I'm so pleased to hear that you're enjoying Resource Guru :) I'm pleased to say that an activity log is very firmly on our roadmap, and I've made a note to contact you as soon as this is available. You can also keep up to date with new features by signing up to our Newsletter at the bottom of our homepage - https://resourceguruapp.com/
I hope this helps but please don't hesitate to reach out if there's ever anything we can do for you :)
Happy scheduling!
Kat
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 2019/11/25
