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Workamajig

Workamajig at a glance
VendorCreative Manager, Inc. (dba Workamajig)
HeadquartersAnthem, Arizona, with East Coast operations in New Jersey
OwnershipPrivately held and independent; no disclosed private equity owner
DeploymentCloud (SaaS); optional on-premises installation only in the Enterprise plan
Support statusActively developed; single product line since 2018
Target marketAdvertising and creative agencies, PR firms, in-house marketing departments from roughly 10 to several hundred users
IndustriesAdvertising, marketing services, public relations, in-house creative
PricingPublished: 49 USD per user per month at 10+ users, 47 at 25+, 45 at 50+; Enterprise quoted individually
Websiteworkamajig.com

What Workamajig is

Workamajig is agency management software with a full accounting engine inside, and that engine is what separates it from the project tools most creative shops start on. General ledger, payables, receivables, and billing share a database with briefs, schedules, timesheets, and creative proofs. The purchase motive is almost always the same: an agency tired of reconciling a project tool against a separate bookkeeping package every month end. In directory terms this is a vertical ERP for marketing services, not a general business suite.

Where Workamajig comes from

The story starts in 1986 with a La Carte Systems, a consultancy advising creative firms on operations. Creative Manager, Inc. incorporated in 2001 and shipped Creative Manager Pro in 2002, early for a cloud product in this niche; the Workamajig name arrived in 2008. A rebuilt platform branded Platinum launched in 2015 and stood alone as the only product line by 2018. Legally the company still operates as Creative Manager, Inc. doing business as Workamajig, remains privately held, and lists Anthem, Arizona as its base with New Jersey roots. Vendor-stated customer numbers: more than 3,000 agencies, and one in five Fortune 500 marketing departments.

What it covers

Four blocks, sold together rather than as separate modules. Project management takes intake and briefs, tasks, schedules, and status. Resourcing handles capacity planning, assignments, and time tracking. Digital proofing keeps creative review and approval inside the system, version history included. The financial core carries the general ledger, payables, receivables, billing logic for retainers and project work, revenue forecasting, and reporting by client, job, or department. Agencies get a sales CRM and revenue forecasting in their configuration; in-house teams get intake and chargeback reporting instead. Client and vendor logins are unlimited on every plan.

Best-fit companies

Full-service agencies with roughly 15 to 300 staff hit the sweet spot. Licensing starts at ten users, and below that the accounting depth is more machinery than a small studio needs. At a few hundred users the Enterprise plan takes over, adding configurable implementation, global financial reporting, and single sign-on. In-house marketing departments buy it too, usually to run chargebacks and demonstrate capacity to a finance function that treats them as a cost center.

Licensing, hosting, cost

Pricing is published, unusual for the category and worth crediting. In-House and Agency plans both run $49 per user per month at 10 or more users, $47 at 25 or more, and $45 at 50 or more, with one month free on annual prepayment. Enterprise, sized for 100 to 10,000-plus users, is quoted individually and is the only tier with an optional on-premises installation. No free trial exists. Implementation and training are personalized and billed separately, so the license figure is a floor rather than a budget — a pattern the ERP cost guide describes for SaaS ERP generally.

Bottom line for buyers

For a midsize independent agency that has lost patience with the project-tool-plus-bookkeeping-package routine, Workamajig makes the strongest single-vendor case in its segment, and published pricing means the math can happen before any sales call. The accounting core is true double-entry bookkeeping, not a billing feature wearing an accounting costume, which is precisely what a firm needs when the general ledger and job costing must agree at month end. The price of that depth is rigidity. Workamajig encodes one opinionated agency workflow, and teams expecting the fluidity of a modern task tool consistently flag the dated interface and the learning curve during onboarding; the payoff tends to arrive after the first full billing cycle, not the first week. Fit questions worth settling up front: a five-person studio sits below the licensing floor and the product's complexity, production companies with real inventory or manufacturing land outside the data model, and finance teams needing multi-entity consolidation across international ledgers should pressure-test that requirement against generalist platforms in a standard ERP selection before signing.

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Frequently asked questions

Is Workamajig an ERP or a project management tool?

The fair answer is a hybrid, with the ledger tipping the scales toward ERP. Task tracking and scheduling alone would put it beside ordinary project tools; running payables, receivables, client billing, and a double-entry general ledger in the same database puts it in a different class. Most customers end up treating it as the system of record for both the work and the money.

How much does Workamajig cost?

Per-user rates are public: $49 monthly per user at ten or more users, dropping to $47 at 25 and $45 at 50, with a free month for annual payment. Above roughly 100 users, Enterprise pricing is negotiated individually. Plan additionally for implementation and training fees, and note there is no free trial to test-drive first.

Who owns Workamajig?

Workamajig is the trade name of Creative Manager, Inc., which remains privately held with no disclosed private-equity investor and no public listing. In a segment where most competing products have been bought and sold at least once, that continuity is a small but real due-diligence point.

Does Workamajig replace a separate accounting system?

For most agencies, yes — retiring the standalone bookkeeping package after go-live is the point of the purchase, since the general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and billing are native. Payroll usually stays external, and firms spanning several legal entities or countries sometimes keep a separate consolidation or tax reporting layer, so statutory reporting requirements deserve explicit confirmation during evaluation.

What are the common criticisms of Workamajig?

Two complaints recur across public reviews: an interface that feels dated next to current SaaS design, and a rollout learning curve that surprises teams coming from lightweight tools. Both are the visible cost of the same choice, an opinionated agency workflow with an accounting engine underneath. Reviewers who stuck with configuration and training generally describe the effort as paying off once a full billing cycle has run through the system.