Toggl Alternative for Ecommerce Agencies
Ecommerce agencies juggle store builds, platform migrations, ongoing optimization retainers, paid advertising management, and email marketing — often for the same client simultaneously. Toggl can track hours across these workstreams, but it treats them as disconnected time entries with no understanding of project phases, budget constraints, or billing models. Your operations team manually pieces together Toggl exports, project status updates from a PM tool, and invoices from accounting software to get a picture of each client engagement. AgencyPro provides the unified multi-service management platform ecommerce agencies need.
If you're a E-commerce agency looking for an alternative to Toggl, you're not alone. Many E-commerce teams switch when they outgrow Toggl's capabilities — particularly around primarily a time tracker — no invoicing, crm, or client portal. AgencyPro is purpose-built for agencies like yours, combining project management, client portals, and billing into one platform.
Why E-commerce Agencies Struggle with Toggl
Toggl cannot manage the complexity of ecommerce builds with multiple phases, dependencies, and cross-functional teams — tracked hours float without project structure
Multi-service billing per client (fixed-price builds, monthly retainers, hourly ad hoc) requires manually splitting and categorizing Toggl time exports across billing models
No unified client view means an ecommerce client with a store build, SEO retainer, and PPC management appears as three disconnected time entries with no holistic picture
Budget monitoring for complex projects requires manually calculating Toggl hours against estimates because Toggl has no concept of phase budgets or burn rate tracking
Why E-commerce Agencies Switch to AgencyPro
Multi-Service Client Management
An ecommerce client might have a Shopify migration project, a monthly SEO retainer, and hourly PPC management running concurrently. AgencyPro provides a unified client view with separate projects, billing structures, and team assignments per service line — all visible in one place. This holistic view is impossible with Toggl because it only sees individual time entries with no client relationship context.
Phased Project Management for Builds
Ecommerce store builds involve discovery, design, development, data migration, QA, and launch — with task dependencies and multiple specialists. AgencyPro structures these as phased projects with milestone gates, dependency tracking, and per-phase budgets. Your team tracks time within this structure, so project health is visible in real time instead of requiring manual Toggl-to-spreadsheet reconciliation.
Flexible Multi-Model Billing
Ecommerce agencies need fixed-price billing for builds, monthly retainers for ongoing services, and hourly rates for ad hoc requests — sometimes all for one client. AgencyPro routes tracked time to the correct billing structure automatically and generates consolidated invoices. This eliminates the billing gymnastics required when splitting Toggl exports across multiple billing models in your accounting tool.
Cross-Functional Team Coordination
Ecommerce agencies coordinate developers, designers, SEO specialists, and PPC managers across shared client accounts. AgencyPro shows team allocation across projects and service lines, prevents overallocation, and enables intelligent assignment based on availability and skills. Toggl shows hours after they're worked — it provides no forward-looking resource management.
AgencyPro vs Toggl: Key Feature Comparison
Unified Client Accounts
Manage multiple projects, retainers, and billing structures per ecommerce client with a consolidated engagement view.
Ecommerce Build Templates
Pre-structured project templates for store builds, platform migrations, and redesigns with phased timelines, dependencies, and milestone gates.
Multi-Model Billing
Support fixed-price, retainer, and hourly billing per client with automatic time routing and consolidated monthly invoicing.
Integrated Time Tracking
Track time per task and service line with automatic allocation to the correct project, retainer, and billing structure.
Cross-Functional Resource Planning
Coordinate developers, designers, and marketers across client accounts with workload visibility and capacity forecasting.
Client Engagement Portal
Branded portal showing build progress, retainer utilization, deliverable status, and invoices across all active service lines.
Key Features for E-commerce Agencies
Unified Client Accounts
Manage multiple projects, retainers, and billing structures per ecommerce client with a consolidated engagement view.
Ecommerce Build Templates
Pre-structured project templates for store builds, platform migrations, and redesigns with phased timelines, dependencies, and milestone gates.
Multi-Model Billing
Support fixed-price, retainer, and hourly billing per client with automatic time routing and consolidated monthly invoicing.
Integrated Time Tracking
Track time per task and service line with automatic allocation to the correct project, retainer, and billing structure.
Cross-Functional Resource Planning
Coordinate developers, designers, and marketers across client accounts with workload visibility and capacity forecasting.
Client Engagement Portal
Branded portal showing build progress, retainer utilization, deliverable status, and invoices across all active service lines.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can AgencyPro handle a client with a store build and an ongoing retainer simultaneously?
Yes. AgencyPro supports multiple projects per client, each with its own billing model, timeline, team assignments, and budget. A client can have a fixed-price migration project, a monthly SEO retainer, and hourly PPC management — all visible in a unified client view with consolidated invoicing. Toggl treats these as unrelated time entries.
We have developers, designers, and marketers on shared clients — how does AgencyPro help?
AgencyPro shows each team member's allocation across all clients and service lines. You see who has capacity, who's overbooked, and where conflicts exist before they impact deadlines. Team members track time against their assigned tasks, and the hours automatically feed into the correct project budget and billing structure.
How does phased budget tracking work for store builds?
Set budget estimates in hours and dollars per project phase — discovery, design, development, QA, launch. As your team tracks time, AgencyPro shows real-time budget consumption per phase with alerts at configurable thresholds. You catch overruns during the design phase, not after the entire project is delivered.
What about Toggl Plan for project management?
Toggl Plan is a separate subscription that offers basic timeline views. It lacks client portals, invoicing, multi-service billing, budget tracking, resource planning, and retainer management. Even combining Toggl Track and Toggl Plan, you still need invoicing software, a retainer tracker, and a client communication tool. AgencyPro replaces the entire stack.
Switching from Toggl Is Easier Than You Think
Switching from Toggl to AgencyPro is straightforward. Our team helps migrate your projects, client data, and workflows so nothing falls through the cracks. Most E-commerce teams are fully operational within a week.
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Ecommerce agencies replace Toggl and their disconnected tool stack with AgencyPro — multi-service management, billing, and team coordination unified.