Bookable features
A special feature of ZEP Professional is the modular construction. In contrast to awork, which combines all functions in one product, ZEP Professional allows you to select exactly the modules that meet individual requirements.
Time tracking, project time recording
Both awork and ZEP Professional are suitable for recording working and project times. While awork only offers basic functions, ZEP Professional impresses with its wide range of functions. At the Working time recording Break regulations can be configured that comply with the respective legal regulations. ZEP Professional offers an all-in-one solution for evaluating working hours, generating documentation and filing supplements for irregular working hours.
Project administration
The systems allow you to create as well as manage projects. Projects can be created with the corresponding master data and the assigned processes and subtasks. It is also possible to record work locations and activities for projects. In addition, project managers and project employees can be clearly assigned. Both systems offer comprehensive evaluations for ongoing and completed projects.
Customer management
Like ZEP Professional, awork includes customer management. Master data, contact persons and persons responsible can be stored here.
Prices & receipts
Hourly and daily rates can be stored in both awork and ZEP Professional. At ZEP Professional, there are also internal cost rates included for the profitability calculation. In addition, income and turnover evaluations can be created automatically and receipts and external costs can also be displayed using the software. ZEP Professional also impresses with various exchange rates and foreign currencies, which allows international use without any problems. These features are missing from awork. In addition, awork cannot display surcharges for specific times, such as night work.
Range
Die Preparation of offers and offer management cannot be mapped in awork. With ZEP Professional, this feature includes a standardized process for creating offer documents based on storable templates. This makes it easy to send offers directly to the customer. When the offer is accepted, the corresponding project is even created directly in the software.
Invoicing
Die invoicing Distinguishes ZEP Professional from awork. With awork, an invoice can only be created via an interface with other software. This is already integrated with ZEP Professional. Here, invoices can be automatically created and sent to the appropriate contact persons. In addition to the option of storing resubmissions for billable services and an approval process for sending invoices, ZEP Professional also offers the option of documenting and accounting evaluation of incoming payments.
Project planning
Resource planning is an essential part of project planning, which can be carried out with both products. This allows the workload to be checked both graphically and in tabular form and to compare target and actual times. It is also possible for employees to plan across customers or projects. However, detailed project planning is not possible with awork. Especially in the case of extensive projects with complex time dependencies, the planning of dependencies and the presentation of critical paths, as they are in a classic project plan According to current project management methodology, is not possible. With ZEP Professional, this is much easier to achieve.
Travel expense report
With ZEP Professional, you can travel expenses can be easily billed. The product supports various tax rates and country-specific regulations and can process a variety of document types.
Overtime, absenteeism & vacation
Both products include a shared team calendar with absences and holidays. ZEP Professional also has a vacation approval process that ensures that vacation plans are coordinated in critical project phases, for example. It is also possible to set monthly financial statements until which bookings are allowed. This makes it possible to create unique evaluations.
Tickets, tasks & to-dos
For agile-oriented companies, it is particularly interesting to create project tickets and subtasks, book times on them and also bill them. that ticket system ZEP Professional is rounded off by optional customer access, clearly defined status transitions and configurable prioritization.
Freelancers
With ZEP Professional, you can also bill for freelancers do it easily and quickly. In addition to project credits, project-specific internal hourly and daily rates can also be stored. This makes it significantly easier to carry out projects. Such a solution is not part of awork.
Departments, branches, locations
The ZEP Professional product enables the flexible development and expansion of complex corporate structures. Also the illustration of other divisions, locations, parent companies or subsidiaries are possible. Evaluations per department, branch or location as well as evaluations for internal service billing are also part of the product.
Target group
The two products are suitable for all industries and company sizes with project business — from freelancers to large corporations.
Support
Both software providers offer a personal customer support on. This is available to you by phone, email or even as part of a chat at awork. This allows you to get help quickly and easily and solve any problems.
Synopsis
ZEP Professional impresses with its modular structure and extensive range of functions, which allows individual adaptation to your requirements. In comparison, awork combines all functions in one product without the option of selecting individual modules.
ZEP Professional is a leader in the area of time recording in particular and offers a complete solution with freely configurable break regulations and supplements for irregular working hours. ZEP Professional also exceeds the functionality of awork in areas such as quoting, invoicing and project planning. In addition, ZEP Professional offers functions such as a vacation approval process, billing for freelancers and the flexible mapping of complex corporate structures that do not exist in awork.
Both products are suitable for companies of all industries and sizes with project business and offer personal customer service. ZEP Professional, on the other hand, offers an extended range of functions and tailor-made solutions for individual requirements.
