Comparison
Manage Agency vs Asana
Honest breakdown for agencies choosing between task-management horsepower and a real client portal. Asana is excellent for your team — it was never built to face your clients.
Pick Manage Agency if…
- — Clients log in — they don't just receive task invites.
- — You want the experience to feel like your brand.
- — Contracts and onboarding matter as much as tasks.
- — You want client-scoped messaging, not comments on tasks.
Stay on Asana if…
- — Task-level project management is the primary job.
- — You need portfolios, goals, and workload views.
- — Your clients are happy being guests on your projects.
- — You don't need white-label or a separate client UX.
Feature by feature
Real branded client portal
Asana guests land inside your internal project.
Per-client feature toggles
White-label (logo + colours)
Asana doesn’t offer white-label.
Custom domain for client portal
Contracts send + sign + track
Onboarding checklists with completion
Asana templates can mimic; no client-facing completion surface.
Deliverables with client approvals
Approvals exist in Asana but are task-level.
Client messaging scoped per client
Role-based agency vs client permissions
Asana has guest roles; coarser than true client role.
Audit trail of status changes
Task-level project management depth
Asana is best-in-class for cross-functional task work.
Portfolios / goals / workload views
Asana Enterprise tier owns this category.
Integrations with the modern stack
Built specifically for agencies
Export your data at any time
Keep Asana for your team. Give your clients something better.
Asana runs the delivery. Manage Agency runs the relationship. Most agencies we work with use both.