Scoro alternative for marketing agencies

Operations built around retainers rather than quoted projects. Proposals, time, invoicing and margin are connected, so nothing falls between.

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The short answer

Where Scoro stops.

Work management with quoting, billing and reporting for professional services broadly: consultancies, architects, agencies. Powerful, and heavier than most 10 to 40 person agencies need.

Verbial is a Scoro alternative for agencies whose revenue is monthly retainers. Scoro centers on the project and its quote; Verbial centers on the retainer period and its department allocations. Scoro may suit you better if you mostly run quoted projects.

What Scoro does well

Quoting and project accounting for many professional services, including purchase orders and supplier bills.
Gantt charts, dependencies and resource planning.
Finance integrations with Xero, QuickBooks Online and Sage, plus configurable dashboards.

What changes with Verbial

Up and running in days. Retainer pacing, overages and margin work without a configuration project.
Win and start the same day. Accepted proposals create the first invoice.
Clients see your brand. On every report and in the portal.
Your data stays yours. Private database, daily backups, full export any time.

Side by side

Verbial against Scoro.

Agency workflowWith VerbialWith Scoro

Primary objectThe retainer period and its department allocationsThe project and its quote

ProposalsNative, from packages, invoice on approvalQuotes from a service catalog

CRMAgency CRM with consent, sequences, forms and bookingSales pipeline with quotes and activities

Project managementProjects and tasks sized for time trackingGantt, dependencies, task boards

Resource planningCapacity against retainer allocations by departmentResource planner with bookings and forecasts

InvoicingRetainers in advance, overages, hourly, media pass-throughInvoices from quotes and time, plus purchase orders

Client reportingWhite-label reports and portal under your brandInternal dashboards and reports

ProfitabilityContracted revenue, absorbed cost, idle time, servicing gapProject accounting with margin per project

Accounting integrationQuickBooks OnlineXero, QuickBooks Online, Sage and others

TenancyA private database per workspaceShared

Pricing basisPer full seat, with a three-full-seat minimumPer user per month, minimum 5 users

Choose Scoro for a large multi-discipline services firm. Choose Verbial for a marketing agency that wants one system it can actually finish setting up.

Modules

The parts that take over from Scoro.

85% of retainerTime trackingKnow which clients are over-serviced while you can still fix it, and invoice from hours you trust.Time tracking software for marketing agencies →Paid · $26,000InvoicingBill every kind of work from what the client signed, get paid faster, and stop losing unbilled hours.Invoicing software for marketing agencies →38.2% marginProfitabilitySee which clients actually make you money, and price the next renewal from evidence.Profitability software for marketing agencies →Drafted by AIProposalsLet AI draft the proposal from the discovery call and your packages, then turn their yes into revenue.Proposal software for marketing agencies →

Common questions

How should we compare Verbial with Scoro?

Compare current agency plans, seats and add-ons on the pricing page.

How does it work for project-based agencies?

Verbial handles projects and project invoicing well, but is built around monthly retainers. If most of your revenue is quoted projects with Gantt planning, Scoro is shaped around that.

Can I migrate from Scoro?

Export clients, projects and time entries to CSV and use the migration hub's CSV importer with its templates. There is no direct Scoro connector.

Try Verbial next to Scoro for a billing cycle.

Bring your data across, keep the old tool read-only, and compare the numbers on real work.

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