Asana is a flexible home for tasks and timelines across a company. Align is purpose-built for client delivery — so the work, the sign-off, and the invoice live together.
Asana is approachable and broad: clean task management, timelines, automation, and goals that work across marketing, ops, and product alike. It’s a strong general work tracker.
It’s general by design. There’s no client portal for delivery, no native cost estimates, eSignatures, or invoicing, and time tracking and approvals are limited or add-on. Client billing lives elsewhere.
Based on natively available capability for client-delivery teams. “Limited” means possible via add-ons, marketplace apps, or integrations rather than built in. Competitors evolve — check current docs before deciding.
Estimates, approvals, releases, and invoicing are first-class — not generic tasks you bend into shape.
Clients get a role-filtered delivery view, not a limited guest invite into your internal workspace.
Approved work rolls into a draft invoice on release — Asana stops at the task.
Bring your work in from Asana or a CSV — IDs, statuses, and history intact.
Spin up a role-filtered portal so the client sees only their work.
Add an estimate and a release — and watch the first draft invoice generate itself.
The fairest test is your real work. We’ll run it end to end on one record in 25 minutes.