Paymo review

Paymo is project, time-tracking and invoicing software for independent professionals and small teams. It puts client work, billable hours, invoices and project profitability in one platform, rather than treating each as a separate tool.

You can create and assign tasks, then view them as Kanban boards, lists, spreadsheets or calendars. Project planning includes team scheduling, leave management, Gantt charts for task dependencies and reusable templates. For collaboration, teams can invite clients, discuss tasks, share files and review creative assets.

Time can be tracked from a browser, desktop computer, phone or tablet, with timesheet reports for review. Paymo can turn unbilled time into invoices; it also supports estimates, expense tracking and online payments. Its profitability tools cover project margins, client profitability and employee performance. In short, it is aimed at managing the work and billing around client projects, not just recording hours.

Paymo’s main advantage is breadth for client work. Project tasks, time tracking and billing sit together, so the platform is designed to carry work from assignment through billable hours to an invoice. That is a useful fit for freelancers and small service teams that want project context alongside time and revenue.

The feature set covers several working styles: tasks can be viewed as boards, lists, spreadsheets or calendars, while Gantt charts and dependencies support project planning. Time tracking is available across browser, desktop and mobile devices, and timesheet reports help review recorded hours. Teams can also involve clients in task discussions, file sharing and creative-asset feedback.

Billing and business oversight go beyond a basic timer. Paymo lists estimates, expenses, online payments and conversion of unbilled time into invoices, plus views of project margins and client profitability. The plan details also identify useful higher-tier additions: Plus includes API access and proofing; Pro includes Gantt charts and leave management. That gives buyers specific reasons to compare tiers rather than assume every plan is alike.

The free plan is tightly capped around the client and project limits: it covers one user, one client, two projects and 1GB of storage. Tasks and invoices are unlimited, but that does not remove the constraint for anyone managing several clients. Solo raises the caps to three clients, five projects and 5GB, but remains for one user.

Watch the monthly promotion. Solo is listed at $5.90 per month for the first three months, then $9.90. Plus is $10.90 per user monthly, rising to $15.90 after three months; Pro goes from $16.90 to $23.90 per user monthly. Plus and Pro include unlimited users, clients and projects, but storage differs: 50GB on Plus and 500GB on Pro. That per-user pricing can change the bill as a team grows.

Annual prices are not published, even though annual billing discounts are advertised as up to 40%, so buyers cannot compare exact annual totals from the published pricing details. A 15-day free trial is listed; check the caps and post-promotion rate before switching.

Paymo’s Free plan costs $0 and includes 1 user, 1 client, 2 projects and 1GB of storage. Solo is listed at $5.90/month for the first three months, then $9.90/month; it covers 1 user, 3 clients, 5 projects and 5GB of storage. That client cap may rule it out if you handle more accounts.

Plus starts at $10.90 per user/month for three months, then rises to $15.90. It adds unlimited users, clients and projects, 50GB of storage, API access and proofing. Pro moves from $16.90 to $23.90 per user/month after the offer, with 500GB, Gantt charts and leave management. That’s a $8-per-user monthly jump from Plus at regular prices.

The pricing page lists no add-ons. Annual prices aren’t published, though Paymo advertises discounts of up to 40% for annual billing. Confirm the actual annual quote before comparing costs; the 15-day free trial doesn’t tell you what you’ll pay after the promotion.

The available published material doesn’t establish whether Paymo offers migration tools, which formats it can import or export, or how cancellation affects stored data. Before switching, ask Paymo how to export tasks, time entries, invoices, expenses and client records, and whether attachments and comments are included. We can’t estimate migration effort without those details and your current system.

There’s no Reddit published material here to support a claim about why users leave, so we won’t dress up guesses as user feedback. The clearest reasons to check fit are in the plan limits: Solo tops out at 3 clients and 5 projects, while Plus and Pro are priced per user. Annual prices aren’t published either. If you’re leaving Paymo, confirm your export and retention options before you cancel; those policies aren’t specified in the published information. For either move, test a small set of records and reconcile it before relying on the new system for billing.