August 28th, 2024
Finding useful web development tools as an agency can be incredibly difficult due to the number of tools out there making it confusing to find the right fit for what you’re looking for.
As an established development agency in the UK, here are our top 5 picks for tools that are a must have for your business.
We have used QualityHive for almost a year now and it’s completely revolutionizes how we QA websites and how we receive client feedback. The team at Zestcode would often get overwhelmed with feedback due to the way it’s been logged, typically in messy Word document files or Excel files which would cause confusion to all stakeholders.
Clients can raise feedback in a few seconds with automatically captured screenshots so our clients certainly appreciated the move to QualityHive as it saved them a lot of time and overall frustration.
Since the move to using a website feedback tool, we’ve seen huge uplifts in productivity across the team and overall, better product quality.
After fighting with 7 or 8 platforms over the course of a few years we finally set up on Toggl Plan, we love Toggl due to the simplicity of how the tasks are organised on a clear and simple Gantt style UI.
Daily morning huddles between the team are a must for any agency, Toggl Plan makes this a breeze as you can rapidly scroll through your teams tasks and collaborate rapidly.
I’m sure you’re already aware of this one, there’s only really 2 big players for email hosting which is Google and Microsoft. Save yourself the headache of access issues and complexity by just going with Google. The UI is better, it’s faster and it’s far more reliable.
After using Newton mail we hit a roadblock where it became tricky to communicate internally regarding emails so we decided to start looking for a new mail client. We ended up going with Front App after hours of research.
It’s pricey as it’s a price per user model but it definitely gives you return on your investment over time, you can easily tag teammates in emails between yourself and the client so teammates that are not typically client-facing can easily view all responses and comms between the project manager and the end client so you won’t have to panic and forward replies to the developers, they’ll just see it come through as if they were cc’d.
An absolute no-brainer, if you’re reading this you’re probably an agency and already well aware of Slack and using it already. If you’re not, it’s time to get it installed, Slack makes internal comms exceptionally easy by allowing you to connect literally 100’s of different 3rd party services into a single point of truth to further enhance internal comms.
Instead of picking up an actual phone to ring your team, you’ll be able to huddle with them to hop on chats incredibly quickly without the hassle.
