21 Ways Jumppl Improves Productivity

It’s been an exciting journey since we launched Jumppl’s ‘Early Adopter’ program early this year. We have been developing Jumppl for the last 3 years now with the core aim of increasing productivity of small businesses, IT teams, marketing agencies, startups, consultants and freelancers.

We have experienced a roller coaster ride all along as we have continued to learn from our wonderful users. We have listened to them and have continued to evolve features to improve team productivity with a view to enhancing the bottom line of our customers. 

We have more than a 1,000 organizations now that use Jumppl for managing their projects, teams and clients. We have indeed learnt a great deal from our users about all the wonderful ways that they have been using Jumppl for boosting the productivity of their marketing, sales, operations, engineering and support teams. Let’s take a look at these use cases so that you can replicate their wonderful experiences for achieving similar results.

1. Create Tasks while you are chatting with someone

Let’s admit that all of us have been through this, you plan a project to perfection and then when you are letting your co-workers in on the details on chat, you feel that you forgot to add something or maybe there are some more tasks that need to be added to the Project. Ahh, you will have to switch from your chat application to your project management platform to make this happen… Well not anymore.

Jumppl Chat has an inbuilt facility to create new tasks for any project that you want while you are chatting all along. What’s more the recipient of the message gets automatically assigned to the task as well. 

2. Get Progress Snapshots for all of your team members

 Productivity often takes a hit when there’s a lack of transparency within a team and the team members are in the dark about the work that’s being done by their peers. A lot of teams are now decentralized which can lead to similar scenarios. Jumppl has a very handy ‘Assigned Tasks’ tab in the ‘Task & Projects’ module which lets all the group members get a sneak peak of what the other members of the team are doing. So you will be able to see the tasks that are on the plate for a particular member for all the projects that you are a part of as well.

3. Making Employee Onboarding a no-brainer

Hiring the right employees for your business can make or break it, and it’s even more important to make sure that you give them the proper red-carpet so to speak when they join the organization. Indeed has a wonderful check list on employee onboarding which sums up the process pretty succinctly. Organizational Productivity gets a severe hit if the new hires are not through a well defined onboarding routine.

Jumppl allows you to seamlessly integrate new hires into your org with a number of key features. You can create and assign specific onboarding projects for each employee and they can just go through the motions while completing all the tasks. No sweating that they might take a misstep because of a lack of guidance. So no-fretting over losing those performance super heroes just because they felt left out after joining the company.

4. You don’t need to switch between Apps anymore

Switching between the apps can be a nightmare and can impact the team’s output. Most teams have different apps for Project management, team management, Document storage, chatting, timetracking and Client management. This arrangement often leads to siloing of information which in-turn leads to important info getting lost in the ensuing mess. There are tons of chat applications out there but almost all of them are just that, a ‘Chat application’.

With Jumppl, you don’t have to use multiple apps for getting work done, as Jumppl handles Projects, Teams, Calendar, Chat, Document storage and clients through a unified platform this paving the way for a super productive team and the icing on the cake; you only have to pay for a single subscription rather for the whole lot of them.

5. Search across different modules

One of the issues that our customers used to run into was the nuisance around finding relevant data spread across projects, chat and files storage. There was the local search available already for finding specific things from within each module but our community wanted something better to improve their productivity by reducing clutter.

 The Jumppl Team prides itself on listening to our wonderful user-base and listen we did. We have launched the ‘Global Search’ feature which allows the users to search within the Chat, Files and the Task modules from a single Dashboard. Reducing clutter from your office increases productivity likewise reducing clutter in your project management platform.

6. Get notified in chat when a task is assigned to you

Getting instantly notified when you are assigned tasks should be a no-brainer, but as it turns out users of one of the biggest Tech companies have had issues around this. Jumppl has a very intuitive way of handling this, as soon as someone is assigned a task, they are simply sent an automatic chat notification notifying about this particular task.

7. @mention a user and they will notified straight away about a chat

Say you are discussing something in a Group using group chat and you want the input of someone particular. What would you do? Maybe howler at them… I am sure that you didn’t think of that J or did you. Jumppl has a more nuanced way of handling these situations, you simply need to use the ‘@username’ format and the user will be notified that their input is required.

8. “The Pin bar changed the way I log things”

Jumppl’s desktop app has been a revelation for our development team as well, the initial plan was to develop a desktop app on the lines of Slack, Basecamp and other similar apps. The desktop app started out as a simplistic chat application but it has evolved into a very effective platform. Unlike the traditional bigwigs of the project management space who either don’t have a desktop app or only have it for the sake of it, Jumppl’s desktop app mirrors most of the features of our web app.

The desktop app has taken it a notch higher with the introduction of the ‘Pin bar’. ‘Pins’ are meant to mimic the sticky-notes and you can ‘stick’ important projects, tasks, files, documents from the Jumppl web-app directly into the desktop app. The user can then open any pin by simply clicking on the required pin from the Pin-bar.

The Jumppl’s user base has reported noticeable increases in productivity and throughput because of the Pin-bar in the desktop app. A lot of the users pin all of their to-do’s everyday and keep ticking them off as they get done with particular tasks.

9. Manage complex projects with Jumppl Subprojects

Most professional projects are quite extensive and elaborate and require comprehensive project management platforms for managing them. Jumppl lets you manage ‘Milestones’ or modules of such projects with Jumppl subprojects. Every project can have unlimited subprojects and this allows you to handle all sorts of project milestones & project types.

10. ‘Favourites’ lets you save the most interesting things,

It’s always handy to have a way of prioritizing certain assets over others and the ‘Favorites’ lets you do exactly that. You can mark any project, task, folders, file or feed item as a favorite and can always comeback to them by clicking through to them via the ‘Favorites’ section.

11. Quickly share a list of tasks and create a ‘post’ for the clients

Jumppl’s client portal is a thing of beauty or so we have been told by our wonderful userbase. One of many features of Jumppl’s client portal is the ability to share tasks from the Jumppl ‘Web-App’ to the Jumppl ‘Client Portal’, which lets the clients to see the progress of the different projects and to provide their feedback as the work progresses. This has lead to faster project turnaround times and has resulted in delighted clients for our userbase, which we consider a huge accolade for our team.

The clients and the users can also post ‘Status updates’, in the ‘Feed’ section of the Client Portal, along with attachments to make the interaction that much more vivid and to provide a canvass for storytelling.

12. Daily email to update you on what has happened and what’s coming up

Jumppl sends out daily & weekly progress emails to keep you in touch with the progress of all the projects that you are currently working on. Nothing boosts productivity more than getting reminded about slipping deadlines, or does it, our fabulous clients definitely think so.

13. Clients get automatically notified when you upload a doc or update a doc

We have all been there, haven’t we, your client asks you about your response about their latest requirements and you don’t have a clue about that or maybe it’s the client that missed one of your emails. Might happen because you missed their latest email in the incessant chatter of incoming emails or maybe you asked for their response and didn’t get it in time.

Whatever the reason this happens all too often in client facing environments and the Jumppl team decided enough was enough ( Yup, seriously J). Jumppl’s Client-Portal takes cares of these issues through its dedicated ‘File’ section which acts as a repository of information for all the documents that are exchanged with the clients. Whenever a document is posted in the ‘File’ section of the ‘Client Portal’, all the members of the respective client portal get notified so you can effectively say goodbye to all the problems associated with client communications.

14. Stops clients from asking you for files all the time

Ta-da! And yes your clients won’t ask you to email that deliverable for the umpteenth time because they will have it sitting cozily in the ‘File section’.

15. See who has already viewed the post

It’s always nice to see whether everyone concerned read your status update or not, so that you don’t have to remind them again and again. Jumppl ‘Feed’ displays the list of people who read your post to keep you in control; another productivity kicker eliminated!

16. + (Plus ) button to create something really fast 

‘One ring to rule them all’, errr, I meant one button ( Image of the plus button ) to manage most of your headaches. Well the ‘+’ button takes care of most of your work related chores like inviting your team members to Jumppl, inviting external members, creating a group or a client portal or creating a ‘Task’, an ‘event’ or a ‘Note’. Have we told you already that you can leave it to us, well you really can, Jumppl has you covered.

17. All your teams contact details in one place

Jumppl’s ‘Team & Groups’ section acts as a team directory where the team members can access contacts details of the rest of the team. So no time-wasting asking everyone for maybe someone’s contact details.

18. Get to know your teammates through the nifty ‘About Me’ sections

A collaborative team is always one of the more productive teams on the block; Jumppl provides a nice avenue for getting to know your team through the ‘About Me’ sections. Get that vibe going about a particular meeting before that all important first in-person meeting.

19. Clients can create tasks in any project through a Public link

So you have a client who wants to create tasks on the fly and doesn’t want to do it through the client portal. What should you do know… worry not, Jumppl allows you to create tasks in any projects through a public link. You just need to share the Public link with the client and they will be able to create a task for the respective project without having to log into the Jumppl web app.

20. File upload through a public link

Similarly you can allow your clients, consultants or advisors to upload files to the Jumppl Cloud without ever signing into the Jumppl platform. You only need to share the public access link for a folder and Boom, that’s about it.

21. Use Jumppl as a knowledge base for your system, Most Small businesses don’t have a knowledge base

Most small businesses don’t have the resources to have a dedicated knowledge base for their teams. With Jumppl you get the added benefit of using the platform as a knowledge base. Your team can save all their documents in a centralized and secure cloud storage and only the people added to a group get access to them.

Jumppl is easy and fast to setup with affordable and predictable pricing and team members can be easily on-boarded.

So whether you are a small business, a Startup, an IT team or a consultant you can hop onto Jumppl and get rolling. Our support team is standing by to help you around whenever you need.

Welcome Aboard, Let’s Jumppl!