Kind of, but not really, as I think what elements of an app are limited is pretty subjective - different people will evaluate that differently.
For example, you don’t think the run limit is relative to the size of an organization but say you would be OK with limiting the number of rules allowed. But I think number of rules represents the same kind of distinction you make about number of runs; that is, I think you could have a small organization that has a large number of rules because they’re doing some complex automation processes.
So for me, the run limit doesn’t warrant special vitriol; but again, I think it’s subjective for different peoples’ evaluations.
For small departments within an organization this tiers don’t make much sense.
We are a big company and only one small department needs premium features. That small department has several projects with several rules that can just stop working mid month.
It also sucks we lost universal reporting and we still not getting a portfolio calendar view. So they worked towards rules and limits but didn’t improve the product, only “AI features” that take an eternity to provide output and which we all know are unnecessary.
Not to even mention you have to read pages and pages of rules and specifications in order to actually know whats going on with the plans.
At the moment we are tying out the premium features, though confortable, I am not sure if being just a few of us it is worth it to locate part of our department budget towards a premium subscription.
Hi There, The 250 limit is very unrealistic. We are a nonprofit and even with your nonprofit pricing, upgrading our 60 person team would still be a HUGE expense just to have the amount of rules needed. Also, our entire team doesn’t use rules (varying degrees of tech saavy-ness) so there is no way I could justify an upgrade for every user when only a few users need the rule!
Another user pointed out this is only about 11 actions per day.
I use rules such as “mark as complete when moved to this section,” that are major time savers but that means all my actions are used on simple things and I don’t even have the remaining actions to explore more ways to optimize my work.
Work flows stopping working at a certain (very low) point completely defeats the purpose of the workflow.
Please consider and advocate raising the limit that I foresee severely lowering Asana’s helpfulness.
Thank you.
Thank you!
WHAT?! That is SO unhelpful. That makes the ability to custom build rules basically useless. One person could use every single action just with a simple “mark as complete when moved to section X”
This is not the same. You are using Zaps for higher level automation like moving entries from an interest form AND an organization can get away with just one user having a higher tier zapier to manage and run all the zaps to suit their organizations needs. That would be an extra $20/month or $240 per year on Zapier.
With Asana’s pricing structure, it would cost our NONPROFIT $5400 extra per year (yes this is including your nonprofit pricing) just to be able to run a realistic number of automations and make the feature useful. 250/runs per month could be used just for a “mark as complete when moved to section X” automation on it’s own for our size organization!
You use Zaps for higher level automation like moving entries from an interest form AND an organization can get away with just one user having a higher tier zapier to manage and run all the zaps to suit their organizations needs. That would be an extra $20/month or $240 per year on Zapier.
With Asana’s pricing structure, it would cost our NONPROFIT $5400 extra per year (yes this is including Asana’s nonprofit pricing) just to be able to run a realistic number of automations and make the feature useful. 250/runs per month could be used just for a “mark as complete when moved to section X” automation on it’s own for our size organization!
In case it wasn’t clear, @Phil_Seeman and I are volunteers here and do not work for Asana. (I mention this because you targeted your reply to my post and mentioned “your nonprofit pricing.”
My post was specifically in reply to another’s post here. I am not a fan of some of Asana’s low thresholds/limits, but my reply was in regard to a related but different question.
got it thank you for clarifying. Your original post was sharing how Zapier and other softwares limit the number of uses per month, I now understand you do not work with Asana but if Asana does see this thread I want them to understand that this is not at all the same and affects organizations much more than Zapier’s limits. Thanks.
So, with the change from Premium to Starter I see 3 cons (because limits are absolutely a con) and 1 pro that isn’t really a pro, because we don’t care about the ai-driven ‘smart answers & smart status.’ Yikes! Not a good move Asana. Our team was already considering alternate tools and this is our cue to make that move.
Hi @Francesco_Canovi , I have some clients who have switched to take advantage of the new AI features without being impacted by the limitations of rules or portfolios.
What impressions are you looking for? The only differences are the ones listed in my OP, above.
@Richard_Sather, I’m confused by reply, because if @Francesco_Canovi switches from Business to Advanced, he’ll get the benefit of more AI features but will start to face new limits with rules and portfolios.
Apologies if it wasn’t clear - I meant that the limitations were not an issue for these particular clients, despite being applied on them due to switching from Business to Advanced.
Exactly. It’s not easy to foresee what will be the impact of the limitation in what it seems to me another bite and switch strategy from Asana. The limitations calculation is confusing and adds a sensation of instability and insecurity to the plans pricing and features.
I would also like to voice my frustration about the new use based limits around rules. As several others have mentioned, this arbitrary limit is unnecessarily restrictive and appears to be Asana’s way of squeezing more money out of non-profits. Making the product worse to force people to upgrade is a dishonest business practice.
