awork Alternative: More than project management

awork does project management well: Kanban boards, milestones, capacity planning, and team collaboration are strengths. What it lacks is a CRM for managing customer relationships and a sales pipeline, as well as integrated invoicing. Agencies using awork typically add Pipedrive or HubSpot for CRM and separate software for quotations and invoices. Time tracking exists, but the path from tracked hours to compliant German invoices requires manual steps and often external tools. The result is a tool stack with three or four systems and no unified customer view.

cashwerk extends the agency workflow with CRM and invoicing. You get awork-style project management – Kanban, milestones, budgets, team assignments – plus a full CRM with pipeline stages, time tracking with one-click billing, and GoBD-compliant invoicing with XRechnung and ZUGFeRD. A deal won in the pipeline becomes a project; tracked hours become line items on an invoice. The AI assistant CASPER supports users across all modules, from drafting project updates to suggesting next steps in the pipeline.

For German agencies, compliance matters. cashwerk is hosted exclusively in Germany and fully GDPR-compliant. Invoices meet GoBD requirements natively. No add-ons, no integrations to maintain – everything is built in. awork plus CRM plus invoicing tools would mean more subscriptions, more data syncing, and higher complexity.

The cost argument is clear. awork plus CRM plus invoicing can easily reach 400 to 600 euros per month for a small agency. cashwerk delivers projects, CRM, time tracking, and invoicing for 249 euros per month for up to 15 users – one platform, one price, transparent and predictable.