Who Uses Basecamp?
Entrepreneurs, freelancers, small businesses and groups inside large organizations.
What Is Basecamp?
Group chat alone isn't enough. Basecamp combines *all* the tools teams need together in one place: message boards, schedules, to-do lists, group chat, documents & file storage, and more. Instead of stuff scattered all over, everything you're working on will be in one streamlined, organized place. Everyone will know what to do. Nothing will slip through the cracks. You'll always know exactly whats going on.
Basecamp Details
Basecamp
https://basecamp.com
Founded 1999
Basecamp Pricing Overview
Basecamp does not have a free version but does offer a free trial. Basecamp paid version starts at US$99.00/month.
Starting Price
US$99.00/month
Pricing Details
Unlimited users, unlimited projects.
Free Version
No
Free Trial
Yes
Deployment
Installed - Mac
Cloud, SaaS, Web
Installed - Windows
Mobile - iOS Native
Mobile - Android Native
Training
Live Online
Webinars
Documentation
Support
24/7 (Live Rep)
Online
Basecamp Features
Collaboration Software
- Brainstorming
- Calendar Management
- Contact Management
- Content Management
- Discussion Boards
- Document Management
- Project Management
- Real Time Editing
- Task Management
- Version Control
- Video Conferencing
Project Management Software
- Agile Methodologies
- Budget Management
- Client Portal
- Collaboration Tools
- Cost-to-Completion Tracking
- Customisable Templates
- Gantt Charts
- Idea Management
- Kanban Board
- Milestone Tracking
- Portfolio Management
- Resource Management
- Time & Expense Tracking
- Traditional Methodologies
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
Task Management Software
- Collaboration Tools
- Create Subtasks
- Gamification
- Gantt/Timeline View
- Mobile Access
- Percent-Complete Tracking
- Recurring Task Management
- Reporting/Analytics
- Spreadsheet View
- Task Board View
- Time Tracking
- To-Do List View
Team Communication Software
- Activity/News Feed
- Alerts/Notifications
- Audio Calls
- Discussion Threads
- File Sharing
- Mobile Access
- Real-time Chat
- Search
- Surveys & Feedback
- Task Management
- Third Party Integration
- Video Conferencing
Basecamp Alternatives
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Basecamp Reviews for UK Users
Showing 5 of 12,224 reviews
Brandon S.
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Overall Rating5/5
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Ease of Use5/5
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Features & Functionality3/5
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Customer Support5/5
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Value for Money5/5
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Likelihood to Recommend
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- Reviewed on 07/01/2020
"Not a Swiss Army Knife, But Offers Extreme Value"
Comments: I've used Basecamp for more than 10 years and it has worked with me through three different positions in the three different industries. Their onboarding tools and support team offers a lot of immediate help when you need it. I'm definitely an evangelist for this platform.
Pros: Basecamp 3 offers an intuitive platform and interface for project and operational collaboration across a wide distributed team. It's easy to onboard new team members both inside and outside the organization. The flat-rate price is a steal compared to all of its competitors.
Cons: Basecamp does not try to be all things to all people, which is a blessing and a curse. There are dozens of other features offered by other platform that are not offered by Basecamp. So if those features are critical, you may have to turn to one of the API-driven integrations for a separate fee.
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- Reviewed on 07/01/2020
Ryan W.
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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 Support5/5
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Value for Money5/5
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Likelihood to Recommend
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- Reviewed on 11/04/2020
"Basecamp allows me to track my team's progress easily and efficiently"
Comments: I've used Basecamp for my team for several years now. The communications solutions, file management services and archival features are all excellent. As an administrator and user, I highly recommend Basecamp for any organization with several ongoing and simultaneous projects.
Pros: Basecamp is a project management solution that allows me to stay on top of my team's projects with ease. Projects can be categorized and organized so that only members working on a particular project are exposed to the communications and back and forth. We use Basecamp as our primary solution because it is easy to implement and onboard, simple to use and has a robust set of features that are among the best in the industry for what we need.
Cons: My only complaint is that the different versions of Basecamp have different features. For example, the version we use does not allow for time tracking. While this is not necessary, as we don't bill out by the quarter hour, it would be a nice feature that would allow me to better understand how long certain tasks take my team members. If Basecamp had universal features across all versions, this would be a miracle solution.
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- Reviewed on 11/04/2020
Jonathan B.
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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
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- Reviewed on 31/08/2020
"Great choice for team discussion, file sharing and basic task tracking"
Comments: Our overall experience has been great. We were using a custom-built tool for team communication, but ultimately decided that Basecamp just has more features and will save us a lot of cash in the long run versus building the tool ourselves. It's nice that there is a flat charge for the service, instead of charging by the user like some other services do. This saves us a considerable amount of money.
Pros: It was very easy to setup and get going. We just invited our team members in with each of their email addresses and it handled the rest. Our entire team found it easy to create their account or do a social login. We use it primarily as a message board and chat system on our team. I really like how the entire message board is searchable, which is useful for finding things later on. "Remember when we talked about XYZ", and you can just search for XYZ and it shows up quickly. The calendar and file sharing has also come in handy for simple things, though it's not as robust as using something like Google Calendar or Google Drive. Basecamp also has a useful API that we've used to pull some data out of their system and display it in our other systems. The mobile app works great. It's probably one of the best designed apps I've ever used, to be honest. It makes it easy to talk with the team while on-the-go.
Cons: I was hoping for some kind of wiki system to be included with Basecamp. You can kinda make up your own wiki using specific categories on the message board and file sharing, but it's not quite the same. A wiki would be really helpful for internal documentation.
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- Reviewed on 31/08/2020
Regina M.
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Overall Rating3/5
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Ease of Use2/5
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Features & Functionality2/5
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Customer Support4/5
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Value for Money3/5
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Likelihood to Recommend
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- Reviewed on 03/04/2020
"Adequate, better than nothing"
Comments: Adequate, at best. Better than nothing. More work than it should be, after 5 years of use. I'm not sure this is the best product for as many users and as many projects as we have... maybe ok for a handful of users/customers and 5-10 projects at a time.
Pros: It's better than an excel spreadsheet. I consider it to be a 'starter' PMS. Sort of like a starter home, or first car (if you're parents aren't rich).
Cons: None of our users can use it properly no matter how many times I instruct them, send them cheat sheets, walk them through the process, justify my requirements for how to use it properly. There's too many places for users to put things, too many ways to make it confusing. Nobody seems to be able to find a thread to continue a conversation, and they just keep starting new messages for everything. If you have a lot of files to add to a project, it gets really confusing on which one is the right one - even if you explain that the newest one is top right. If there's too many messages or files - the oldest ones get buried and nobody can figure out how to find them. The archiving system is a nightmare - impossible to find and pull up projects, you can't search by project, you can only search by a file name, and you can't sort your search - it's just a long list, and you'd better hope you were super consistent in naming your files if you ever want to find something again. There's no analytics
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- Reviewed on 03/04/2020
Terrance K.
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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
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- Reviewed on 20/07/2020
"Recommended - Use it daily"
Comments: We use Basecamp almost on a daily basis. It is fantastic for managing our team and different partners. Our operations side has also been thrilled with the lists that Basecamp provides. Makes it easy for managers to see what has been completed
Pros:
Basecamp is well suited for project management. I've used Trello historically but it never had the same degree of functionality. I love the fact that I can have lists, easily collaborate with others and make it almost like a task force that I can assign to various people on our tea.m
It was easy enough to implement and also great if you need to hit the ground running since the learning curve is virtually non existant.
Cons: I use Basecamp 2 and the part I like least about the software is that within the cards itself, I can't @person to provide updates. I can assign various cards to specific people but can't call out specific individuals in those cards.
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- Reviewed on 20/07/2020
