HaloPSA vs. N-able MSP Manager

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
HaloPSA
Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
HaloPSA is a solution designed for MSP's and service providers. With HaloPSA out-of-the-box functionality, the solution aims to provide businesses a Cloud platform that enables users to modernise customer experience and automate service. An integrated PSA platform, it includes features such as time-tracking and billing, advanced reporting, asset management, remote access, integrations, and automation tools. Aligned to the user's requirements and boasting an intuitive UI, users…
$35
per month per user
N-able MSP Manager
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
N-able™ MSP Manager (formerly Solarwinds MSP Manager) is a cloud-based help desk and billing software for IT service providers, which includes a ticketing system, customer portal, technician mobile apps, billing tools, and reporting dashboards. MSP Manager offers a lightweight ticketing system with a quick entry feature that allows users to capture essential information such as customer name, service items, and issue details from any screen. Tickets can also be…N/A
Pricing
HaloPSAN-able MSP Manager
Editions & Modules
All-inclusive PSA Software
$35
per month per user
All-inclusive PSA Software
$35
per month per user
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
HaloPSAN-able MSP Manager
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details15% discount for all charities, educational institutions and non-profit organisations.
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Community Pulse
HaloPSAN-able MSP Manager
Considered Both Products
HaloPSA
Chose HaloPSA
Against the other platforms used, HaloPSA is faster, simpler, and easier to use. It might not yet have all of the features of the other platforms, but they are coming fast. The support is second to none.
Chose HaloPSA
We have used and tried several other PSA vendors and HaloPSA was our favorite by far. Many others were either much too overly complicated, clunky, slow to respond to issues, incomplete, or they simply failed to deliver on promises made, especially in terms of integrations.
N-able MSP Manager
Chose N-able MSP Manager
I want to be clear. I did not choose MSP Manager, it was thrown at me, purchased by someone who did not understand how bad this tool was. I have used other ticket systems, Remedy, Spiceworks, and ServiceNow. Those all work, and do a lot of things this can't. We have to …
Chose N-able MSP Manager
The most important factor was integration with my RMM, so once I chose SolarWinds RMM, MSP Manager was the obvious choice.
Chose N-able MSP Manager
MSP Manager is a fully serviced paid option. Spiceworks is a free helpdesk. They both are very useful, but a company can just outgrow Spiceworks.
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User Ratings
HaloPSAN-able MSP Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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4.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
3.9
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
HaloPSAN-able MSP Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
Quote to cash. Workflows throughout the entire process are simple and easy to amend/change if needed. Reporting is easy and can be scheduled to our needs.
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It's a good company to grow with because as needs change there are more features available.
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Pros
  • Ticketing
  • Automation
  • Invoicing
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  • Help Desk Ticketing is very easy to use and organize.
  • Billing is robust and keeps track of client contracts and time very well.
  • Role management and ticket routing client are very robust.
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Cons
  • A few tweaks to how items are organised/grouped and listed
  • Documentation
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  • Labeling/titling work "labels" without all the extra steps.
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Support Rating
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I had the chance to talk to SolarWinds reps at their Empower conference. They asked how we liked MSP Manager. (For full disclosure, we use their whole suite of products). I told them it's the worst ticket software I have ever used. They said that it wasn't the first time they had heard that. I did not doubt that he was telling the truth.
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Alternatives Considered
Against the other platforms used, HaloPSA is faster, simpler, and easier to use. It might not yet have all of the features of the other platforms, but they are coming fast. The support is second to none.
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I want to be clear. I did not choose MSP Manager, it was thrown at me, purchased by someone who did not understand how bad this tool was. I have used other ticket systems, Remedy, Spiceworks, and ServiceNow. Those all work, and do a lot of things this can't. We have to export a list of all tickets, then use BI tools to try and work the data, just to get reports on completed tickets. It's truly terrible. I would recommend having users send a carrier pigeon over using this awful awful tool.
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Return on Investment
  • Our teams have been brought closer together
  • We are more accessible to our clients thanks to HaloPSA
  • All aspects of the business are covered under one system
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  • For my managed service clients, MSP Manager has seriously reduced the time I spend billing. Overall data entry time may be the same, but now it's focused on documenting the work that was done and the billing simply follows.
  • The first few months of learning MSP Manager definitely meant doing lots of admin work twice, and double-checking the MSP manager invoices against the paper trail, to ensure it was accurate and working. Plan for this extra time overhead during the learning phase.
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ScreenShots

HaloPSA Screenshots

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N-able MSP Manager Screenshots

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