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Asana Stack

5 selected tools to power your business. Chosen for Project Management, Team Chat, Help Desk, and more.

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Summary

Summary

With size and scale comes complexity in billing and sales tax compliance—woohoo! Asana has a pretty solid stack, although we have some thoughts 💭

    Finance

  1. Stripe
    Stripe
    Payment

    Accept payments, send payouts, and manage your business (for teams of all sizes).

    Accept payments, send payouts, and manage your business (for teams of all sizes).

    Work Management

  1. Asana
    Asana
    Project Management

    For medium + large teams looking for a task-based project management tool, where goals and reporting are important.

    For medium + large teams looking for a task-based project management tool, where goals and reporting are important.

    Customer Support

  1. Zendesk
    Zendesk
    Help Desk

    large enterprise teams with deep API needs

    large enterprise teams with deep API needs

    Team Communication

  1. Slack
    Slack
    Team Chat

    For teams of all sizes looking for a central communication hub for their team.

    For teams of all sizes looking for a central communication hub for their team.

    Cloud & Documents

  1. Google Workspace
    Google Workspace
    Cloud Suite

    startups, small, and mid-size businesses

    startups, small, and mid-size businesses

Final Notes

Final Notes

Stack Overview

Asana uses Zuora as their payment subscription manager, with Stripe connected as their payment processor, and Avalara as their automated sales tax compliance tool.

We've not had the best luck with Avalara (have actually written quite publicly about how bad they are along with Transistor via a recent podcast episode), but companies like Help Scout + Motion have managed to make it work for them.

That said, even companies like Zapier are avoiding Avalara in favor of Vertex. There really aren't great solutions in this space, it's all about picking the lesser of all evils.