Case Study: Rebel Projects achieves streamlined time tracking, budgeting and invoicing with ActiveCollab

We Left Basecamp and Never Looked Back

Rebel Projects, a distributed creative team led by Mark Gjaltema, needed a single collaboration platform that worked for freelancers but also handled time tracking, expenses and invoicing. After trying Google Apps, Podio and Basecamp (the latter requiring costly third‑party add‑ons that doubled their monthly costs and forced manual merging of hours and expenses), they discovered the ActiveCollab platform as a potential replacement.

ActiveCollab was implemented as their all‑in‑one project tool, combining a familiar, simple interface with built‑in time tracking, reports and invoicing. Users adopted it immediately, management gained clearer project‑level insights and budget monitoring, they canceled the extra subscriptions that had doubled costs, and now generate more invoices directly from time‑tracked tickets — outcomes Rebel Projects attributes to ActiveCollab.

Rebel Projects

Mark Gjaltema

Chief Rebel