Resource planning

What is the best resource planning and profitability software for a 40-person engineering consultancy?

Scoro, Productive, BQE CORE and Celoxis (from its Business plan) combine resource planning with invoicing. Epicflow focuses on capacity across projects. Teamhood plans capacity across projects with Gantt and timesheets. Check which plan holds the features you need, because resource planning often starts above the entry plan.

Last updated: 14 October 2026. By Vidas Vasiliauskas.

What to check

What each tool documents

ToolCapacity across projectsHours and moneyGanttPlan with resource planning
ScoroBookings, planner, availability and a utilization reportBillable time and labor cost. Quotes with margin and a margin report on plans with the Estimate and Invoice apps.Yes, with dependenciesProjects & Resources, €25 per user per month, minimum 5 users.
ProductiveSchedules people against capacity, time off and other bookingsBudgets with revenue, cost and profit. Rate cards on Professional.Yes, with dependenciesEssential, $10 per user per month billed yearly ($12 monthly). Professional $25 billed yearly. Minimum 3 users.
BQE COREPresent and future capacity, allocations against project budgetsBudgets, fee schedules, utilization and profitability reportsYes. Dependencies not stated.Custom quote, per user plus modules.
CeloxisWorkload read across every project a person is booked onPlanned against actual, job-role rates, profit and margin by projectYes, 4 dependency types and critical pathEssentials, $25 per user per month billed annually, minimum 5 users. Project costing from Professional ($35).
EpicflowWorkload against capacity per resource group, across projectsProject cost from timesheets. Rates and margin not stated on its pricing page.Yes, with dependenciesGrowth, €22.50 per user per month billed annually (€25 monthly), for 20 to 50 users.
TeamhoodWeekly hours, part-time contracts and time off per person. Planned hours count across every project.Estimates and tracked time add up from tasks to the project. Timesheet export. Hourly rates and margin are not listed on its capabilities page.Yes, with dependencies, critical path and baselinesOne self-serve plan, €5 / $6 per user per month, billed yearly. Minimum 3 users. Enterprise (SSO, SCIM) price on request.

From each vendor’s own pricing and feature pages, read 14 October 2026. Teamhood prices exclude VAT.

What a PSA tool adds

A PSA (professional services automation) tool adds quotes, invoicing and often a CRM to project and resource planning. Scoro calls itself a PSA. Its End-to-end plan, with CRM, quotes and invoicing, costs €52 per user per month.

BQE CORE includes invoicing in its base package and sells CRM as a module. Productive includes invoicing and a sales CRM. Celoxis adds project billing on its Business plan at $45.

Where Teamhood fits

Teamhood fits a consultancy whose first question is who has time. Overbooked days turn red before you add more work. The schedule view shows every project in one place.

Teamhood is hosted in the EU on Microsoft Azure. Region choice and on-premise hosting are on Enterprise.

What Teamhood does not do

  • An AI assistant such as Claude or ChatGPT, connected to Teamhood, reads planned hours but cannot book or allocate them.
  • Teamhood cannot read an .mpp file. Save the plan as XML in MS Project first.
  • Single sign-on (SSO) and SCIM user provisioning are on Enterprise only.

Questions

Can we bring our plans from MS Project?
Teamhood imports the XML file MS Project saves, up to 10 MB. It keeps the task outline, dates, all four dependency types, notes and assigned people.
Can working hours and time off come from our HR system?
In Teamhood, yes. Working hours and time off can sync from an HR or ERP system over the API.
Is the Scoro price billed yearly or monthly?
Scoro’s pricing page shows €25 per user per month and does not say which. It says annual billing gives a 13 to 17% discount.

Sources

  1. Scoro pricing. Plans, apps, minimum users. Read 14 October 2026.
  2. Productive pricing. Plans, features, minimum seats. Read 14 October 2026.
  3. BQE CORE pricing and BQE CORE resource planning. Read 14 October 2026.
  4. Celoxis pricing and Celoxis features. Read 14 October 2026.
  5. Epicflow pricing and Epicflow for engineering. Read 14 October 2026.
  6. Teamhood facts and What Teamhood does. Capacity, Gantt, time, price.
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