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A task board doesn't know what a BOQ is.
Trello, Asana, Monday and their peers are genuinely good general-purpose task tools — we're not going to pretend otherwise. But they're built for any team doing anything, which means the parts specific to design-build work — quantities, drawings, client approvals, GST bills — end up in other tools anyway. That's the duct tape you were trying to escape.
| Generic task tools | Onegoin | |
|---|---|---|
| Bill of quantities | A card or a spreadsheet attachment. Quantities, rates and amounts are your problem. | A first-class object: import from Excel, category breakdowns, vendor quotes, convert lines to orders and invoices. |
| Drawings | File attachments on tasks. Revisions pile up as copies. | A drawing register with revisions, tags and issue tracking — share sets through client portals. |
| Client access | Clients need accounts, or you email exports. Guest seats often cost money. | Clients view and approve through a portal link. No account, no seat, on every plan. |
| Money | Budgets live elsewhere; invoicing lives elsewhere again. | Budget vs actuals per project, milestone invoices in ₹ with GST, collected via Razorpay. |
| Project structure | Generic boards and lists you have to shape yourself, per project, forever. | Design-build stages out of the box: Brief → Concept → Schematic → DD → CD → Site → Handover. |
| Pricing model | Per seat, usually in dollars — every junior and site engineer adds cost. | Per studio workspace, in ₹. Clients never count as seats. |
Honestly, though
When a generic tool is enough.
If your studio only needs shared to-do lists — no BOQs, no drawings to issue, no client approvals, billing handled elsewhere — a generic board is simpler and cheaper. The switch pays off when the project's money and documents need to live with its tasks.
Already running a board somewhere? Onegoin has a project importer — bring one live project across and run the two side by side for a week. See how it's built for architecture firms and interior designers.
Tasks are a feature. The studio is the product.
One workspace for the work, the drawings, the approvals and the money. Start free and bring one project.