by | Feb 4, 2021

Many people use Trello to manage their work. It excels in areas as varied as managing tasks in small-to-medium size projects to personal to-do lists.

MSPs love Trello, but those who also use Autotask PSA end up with a problem- they need to either duplicate a lot of data from Autotask to Trello and back (think tickets, projects, and tasks), or they have to lose access to some of their data in Autotask by not duplicating it. Neither of those is a good option for an effective MSP. Productive MSPs need the excellent visualizations provided by Kanban tools such as Trello, without wasting time duplicating data, or losing the benefits of an integrated PSA such as Autotask.

As an MSP using ConnectWise, Kerkhoff Technologies had the same problem as Autotask MSPs using Trello. But instead of deciding between useful visualizations of tickets and projects, and having to duplicate a lot of data, or losing the benefits of the integrated PSA, Kerkhoff Tech built a solution that offered the best of all worlds- Kanban boards that show up-to-minute data straight out of your PSA, no manual data entry required, with 2-way sync. That tool has matured over 5 years and is now known as TopLeft.

TopLeft is the Kanban tool for Autotask you’ve been missing

TopLeft doesn’t only show you your ticket, project, and task data from Autotask. Because it’s dedicated to MSPs, it offers much more thorough integration than you could imagine with Trello.

Here are some of the powerful features of TopLeft Kanban that are difficult or impossible to build in Trello- regardless of how much time you spend copying data back and forth.

  1. Swimlanes– group tickets into horizontal lanes to indicate the group to which they belong. This is useful to see how tickets are distributed by technician or to view tickets in their projects, or to show projects grouped by the week they’re scheduled to start.
  2. Perform operations on tickets directly from the Kanban board- assign technicians, enter time and notes, and change ticket status
  3. Show Work In Progress limits to help your team understand when too much work has been started.
  4. Show a snippet of the last time entry or note
  5. Show time remaining until the current SLA stage expires (and warn when it’s approaching soon)
  6. Highlight neglected work– tickets that have been in one status for a long time or have been a long time without a time entry or note

Topleft helps you avoid time-consuming data entry in Trello and it’s specialized for the work done by MSPs in ConnectWise and Autotask. Want to see more? Schedule a demo to discuss how Kanban can help you!

Ready to find your path?

Here are three ways to take the next step forward:

1

Schedule a demo with us to see TopLeft in action. We’ll personalize the session to show how TopLeft integrates with ConnectWise, Datto Autotask, and HaloPSA, solving your unique service delivery and project management challenges.

2

Try our free Capacity Planner template. This simple tool helps you balance workloads, schedule projects, and assign tasks efficiently—your first step toward reducing manual work and improving results.

3

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