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What is Basecamp?

Basecamp’s unique blend of tools is everything any team needs to stay on the same page about whatever they’re working on.

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Awards & Recognition

Basecamp won the following awards in the Project Management - Enterprise category

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2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

Latest Award, 2024

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

Latest Award, 2024

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023

7 Top Rated Capabilities

8 Top Rated Features

2023

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023

Strategy and Innovation
Service Experience
Product Impact
Contract Negotiation
Conflict Resolution

2023

4 Top Rated Capabilities

6 Top Rated Features

2022

Basecamp Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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87 Likeliness to Recommend

1
Since last award

98 Plan to Renew

89 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

+95 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Basecamp?

2% Negative

1% Neutral

97% Positive

Pros

Effective Service
Respectful
Helps Innovate
Reliable

Feature Ratings

Average 86

Collaboration

Document Management

Resource Management

Workflow Management

Dependency and Milestone Tracking

Planning and Scheduling

Mobile Access

Budget Management

Reporting

Time & Expense Tracking

Hierarchical Task Management

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 86

Ease of Implementation

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Business Value Created

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Data Integration

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Customization

Ease of IT Administration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Vendor Support

Basecamp Reviews

Ikki P.

Role: Student Academic
Industry: Other
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2021

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Siam R.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Other
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2021

Easy to read and very easy to navigate

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Basecamp from other similar products?

Basecamp integrates with the Ganttify application to create Gantt charts using information from your various projects.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Features: Project organization Integrate with email To-do lists Share files and documents Agenda and calendar views Notifications Integrations: Accounting TeamGantt cloudHQ SupportBee

What do you dislike most about this product?

Basecamp does not offer Gantt charts or time tracking.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Basecamp has a wealth of project management capabilities, including key features like to-do lists, file and document sharing, and notifications. They also offer additional features, including agenda and calendar views, and valuable integrations like LessAccounting, TeamGantt, cloudHQ, and SupportBee.

Pros

Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Unique Features

Traylor H.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2021

Basecamp high satisfaction rating

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Basecamp from other similar products?

Basecamp has extensive integration capabilities. It can be connected to applications and tools for event management, communication, task tracking, issue tracking, and accounting: Eventbrite Loose Clickup Tour FreshBooks

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Basecamp offers chat forums and messages in real time. Chat messages can be sent to groups or individuals for instant communication. Message boards can be used to post relevant messages and keep the entire conversation on a specific topic on a single page. Also, you can embed images or files in your message, applaud messages and comments, and choose to share with everyone or selected people.

What do you dislike most about this product?

There is a lot to learn at Basecamp

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Basecamp has rich features that have been proven to help thousands of businesses around the world. When choosing project management software for your business, keep the important details in mind. Regarding prices, Basecamp is the most logical option if you have a lot of team members, especially because of its fixed fee regardless of the number of users. Basecamp's built-in chat feature is also useful if you want to talk to your team members in real time.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Efficient Service
Effective Service

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

Basecamp Ratings

87 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

98 Plan to Renew

89 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+95 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Basecamp?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Collaboration Includes ability to view, share and direct work between co-workers in real or near real-time.

Document Management Includes features such as check-in/check-out and versioning controls on documents and artifacts.

Resource Management Includes resource allocation, expense tracking, and resource planning.

Workflow Management Includes ability to support flexible and comprehensive workflow-based capabilities.

Dependency and Milestone Tracking Ability to define project development stages and task dependencies while setting milestones to mark specific points in a project

Planning and Scheduling Includes milestones, tasks and resource assignments (can also include WBS and CPM).

Mobile Access The solution can be easily accessed by employees through a dedicated native application or HTML5 access.

Budget Management Includes financial planning, cost management, and payroll budgeting.

Reporting Straightforward data storage with ability to create any reports easily. Dashboards for any role with ability to easily build and modify.

Time & Expense Tracking Ability to track time for planning and estimating

Hierarchical Task Management Ability to create both templates and unique projects and support tasks that can be divided into sub-tasks and delegated

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Basecamp Reviews

Ikki P.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Siam R.

Easy to read and very easy to navigate

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Traylor H.

Basecamp high satisfaction rating

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Collaboration

Document Management

Resource Management

Workflow Management

Dependency and Milestone Tracking

Planning and Scheduling

Mobile Access

Budget Management

Reporting

Time & Expense Tracking

Hierarchical Task Management

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of Implementation

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Business Value Created

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Data Integration

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Customization

Ease of IT Administration

Usability and Intuitiveness

Vendor Support