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Resource Guru

4.7 (534)
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Resource management solution for busy teams

About Resource Guru

Resource Guru is a comprehensive resource management, planning, and scheduling solution designed to help organizations streamline day-to-day operations and optimize resource utilization. With its user-friendly interface and intuitive features, Resource Guru empowers teams to master time and achieve blissful simplicity in resource management.

The platform offers a set of scheduling capabilities, including resource scheduling, resource management, leave management, project scheduling, equipment management, and meeting room booking. These features enable organizations to keep track of their teams, equipment, and other resources, ensuring efficient allocation and minimizing the risk of over-allocation. The planning features, such as capacity planning and project forecasting reports, provide valuable insights to help businesses make informed decisions and achieve successful project outcomes.

Resource Guru also includes time tracking functionality through its timesheet module, allowing organizations to monitor resource utilization rates, billable vs. non-billable time, overtime, and time off. The platform's integration capabilities seamlessly connect it with other tools, ensuring a harmonious workflow across the organization.


Key benefits of Resource Guru

  • Users can see everyone’s availability at a glance, allowing them to plan projects and assign work with confidence.
  • Managers can organize resources based on the required skills and assign work to the right people, right away.
  • Simple drag-and-drop scheduling makes it easy to chop and change plans and shift people and resources from project-to-project.
  • Clash management actively prevents double-bookings and overtime.
  • Operators can help the team stay on top of their work with personalized dashboards, email notifications, and daily schedule emails
  • Track the team’s time using refreshingly quick-to-complete timesheets. Compare forecast hours with actuals and export timesheet data for deeper analysis.
  • Supervisors can run reports on utilization and billable hours across projects and clients, so team leaders can forecast and budget more accurately.
  • Vacations, sick leave, and other time off are easy to book, manage, and analyze, so it never throws projects off track.

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    Marina
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    • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
    • Company size: 11–50 Employees
    • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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    • Value for Money
    • Ease of Use
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    • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

    Great tool for resource planning

    Reviewed on 13/2/2022

    Overall, RG was a game-changer for us. Since we have implemented it, we got a better overview of...

    Overall, RG was a game-changer for us. Since we have implemented it, we got a better overview of our projects and became able to plan ahead and more long-term.

    Pros

    The product is very easy to use, intuitive, and fast. We love the ability to zoom in and out and have different views of our timeline.

    Cons

    What I (currently) miss most is the ability to quickly update the schedule. For example, to select multiple "tasks" for one employee and move them 1 or more days forward, in other words, to shift or postpone someone's entire schedule. We change schedules quite frequently so it would be easier for us to have this enabled. But I've heard that this would be possible down the road.

    Alternatives Considered

    Toggl Track

    Reasons for Switching to Resource Guru

    We wanted something specific for resource planning, not for task management, and the others we considered were more leaning toward task management.
    Megan
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    • Industry: Internet
    • Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
    • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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    Overall rating

    • Value for Money
    • Ease of Use
    • Customer Support
    • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

    Happy Project Manager

    Reviewed on 12/8/2024

    The customer service has been great and adopting the tool among our team has been very smooth and...

    The customer service has been great and adopting the tool among our team has been very smooth and easy!

    Pros

    Easy to use, highly visual, quick to update.

    Cons

    The utilization report doesn't seem to reflect available billable hours when taking PTO/OOO out of the equation. This results in our utilization typically looking lower than it is in reality.

    Alternatives Considered

    Float

    Reasons for Switching to Resource Guru

    Easy to adopt; highly visual; relatively low-medium cost.
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    • Industry: Information Technology & Services
    • Company size: 11–50 Employees
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    Great product but no development

    Reviewed on 30/11/2015

    Whilst it Guru is a promising, flexible and easy to use product it really is just bare bones at the...

    Whilst it Guru is a promising, flexible and easy to use product it really is just bare bones at the moment and they have failed to deliver any additional functionality since launch despite increasing pricing.

    The forums are filled with requests and suggestions for highly useful add-ons and improvements that always receive the same answer "It's on the road map but we are working on other aspects of development". However, there have been no new releases and even the highly anticipated Vacation and Leave function slated for October 2015 has not actually been delivered. In fact the only thing that has changed is a change in pricing model that has upped the cost of the product.

    So, to conclude, even though Resource Guru has great potential the increased cost combined with a complete lack of development and capacity for integration make it a waste of time and money. Sad really because conceptually it is a fantastic product.

    Response from Resource Guru

    Thanks for the review Ossian! While I understand your frustration at the low frequency of new feature releases recently I'd like to correct you on a few things. It's not true that we have failed to deliver anything since launch—for more information on our product updates you can go to the "Product Updates" section of our blog http://blog.resourceguruapp.com/category/product-updates/. We are sorry that our leave management feature is not yet live but it is a large and complex upgrade to Resource Guru and we want to ensure it is all perfect before we release it. We hate the idea of our users doing our testing for us.

    Although we haven't directly integrated with any apps yet, we have developed webhooks (found in your account settings) which deliver realtime updates enabling you to create many DIY integrations using services like Zapier. We also have an advanced API (more details can be found at https://developers.resourceguruapp.com/). We want to wait until the product is slightly more evolved before we start working on integrations and the work we've done to date will put us in a very good position to do so when the time comes.

    Lastly, I noticed that you only gave our customer support 2 stars. We pride ourselves on giving excellent customer support to all our customers and the team will be very disappointed to hear this. Apart from reading comments about features being on the roadmap (while you may find this frustrating, we are only trying to be honest and not make promises we can't keep), was there anything else about our customer service that you found inadequate?

    Once again, thanks for the review and I hope we can bring a smile to your face in the future as we release more features.

    Larry
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    • Industry: Facilities Services
    • Company size: 11–50 Employees
    • Used Daily for 2+ years
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    • Value for Money
    • Ease of Use
    • Customer Support
    • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

    RG is great for keeping track of resources and utilization of employees

    Reviewed on 9/12/2022

    RG has made scheduling much simpler and visible across our organization

    RG has made scheduling much simpler and visible across our organization

    Pros

    functionality, ease of use, visibility and the way we're able to allow access to certain functions

    Cons

    would be nice to have a search function to look up past and future information

    Alternatives Considered

    Calendly, SimplyBook.me and HubSpot CRM

    Reasons for Switching to Resource Guru

    RG was highly recommended by a few of our colleagues
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    • Industry: Information Technology & Services
    • Company size: Self Employed
    • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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    • Ease of Use
    • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

    Some thoughts

    Reviewed on 18/2/2024

    ok

    ok

    Pros

    Relatively easy to use

    Cons

    Can't do everything I want to, or if it can I can't find it.

    Resource Guru FAQs

    Below are some frequently asked questions for Resource Guru.

    Resource Guru offers the following pricing plans:

    • Starting from: US$4.16/month
    • Pricing model: Subscription
    • Free Trial: Available

    30-day free trial, no credit card required. Grasshopper: $5/user/month (billed monthly) or $4.16/user/month (billed annually). Blackbelt: $8/user/month (billed monthly) or $6.65/user/month (billed annually). Master: $12/user/month (billed monthly) or $10/user/month (billed annually).

    Resource Guru has the following typical customers:

    Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

    Resource Guru supports the following languages:

    English

    Resource Guru supports the following devices:

    Resource Guru integrates with the following applications:

    Calendly, Fantastical, Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, Zapier

    Resource Guru offers the following support options:

    Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat

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