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Asana plans the tasks.Operations Link plans them and runs the company.
Operations Link covers 38 of 42; Asana covers 14.
24 more in Operations Link.Your projects are in Asana. The quote, the invoice, the crew’s dispatch and the truck are not — so the same job lives in several places. Operations Link runs the project with task boards and milestones, and the company it is for: clients and quotes, invoices with holdback, the field and the road, time off and Ontario pay runs, and a business phone line — some parts on Professional or as services you switch on.
This page sets Operations Link beside Asana. Every Asana fact on it links to the page it was read on, on 24 October 2026.
In short
38 of 42 on one record.Nothing typed twice.
Operations Link covers 38 of 42; Asana covers 14.
24 more in Operations Link.Operations Link has projects with task boards and milestones, and puts them inside the company that runs them: the client, the quote and the invoice with holdback on every plan; timesheets and time off on Professional; the crew dispatched (Field operations), the truck on the road (Fleet) and the Ontario pay run (Payroll) as services you switch on; and a portal where your clients follow along — one record, so a project’s work and its money never live apart.
Counted row by row on the table below, of the 42 things a company runs — Operations Link’s services included, as Asana’s separately sold products are.
What Asana is known for — and how Operations Link handles it
- Goals and portfoliosAsana: Goals and portfolios that tie each team’s work to company objectives.Operations Link
A health score on every project — on track, at risk or off track — weighing budget, milestones, blocked tasks and client ratings.
- Operations Link
Milestones on a timeline and task boards on every project, with a health score that flags a project slipping.
- Workload planningAsana: Workload and capacity planning across many projects.Operations Link
Workload and utilisation for any team, department or the whole company.
- Workflow automationAsana: Workflow automation with intake forms, rules and AI Studio.Operations Link
Web forms that land in your leads, Workflows on Professional and up, and, with Nova, work asked for in plain words.
Side by side
42 things a company runs.Row by row, checked.
A row counts whole when it is in the product or sold as its own product, half when only a narrower version is, and not at all when it takes another company’s app. Every Asana answer links to the page on Asana’s site we read it on, on 24 October 2026; a “Not listed” links to where we looked. Tell us if we missed something.
- In the product
- In part
- Not listed, or only through another app
“Professional and up” is the Professional and Enterprise plans. “With Fleet”, “With Nova” and the like are Operations Link services you switch on with those plans.
Asana’s answers read on 24 October 2026, each linked to its page.
Operations Link
38/42Asana
14/42Clients and sales
| Feature | Operations Link | Asana |
|---|---|---|
| Client records | Every plan | In partClient Management, for agencies. |
| Sales pipeline | Every plan | In partDeals as tasks with custom fields. |
| Quotes and estimates | Every plan | |
| Customers book online | In part · every planYour clients book visits from their portal; a new customer sends a web form. | In partIntake forms; no appointment slots. |
| Email marketing | In part · every planFollow-up sequences that stop when someone replies; no newsletters or landing pages. | |
| Customer portal | Every plan | In partIn Client Management. |
Quotes and estimates
- Operations Link
- Every plan
- Asana
Customers book online
- Operations Link
- In part · every plan
- Asana
Operations Link: Your clients book visits from their portal; a new customer sends a web form.
Asana: Intake forms; no appointment slots.
Email marketing
- Operations Link
- In part · every plan
- Asana
Operations Link: Follow-up sequences that stop when someone replies; no newsletters or landing pages.
Scheduling and field work
| Feature | Operations Link | Asana |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduling calendar | Every plan | |
| Jobs and work orders | Every plan | In partWork-order forms routed to a team. |
| Dispatch board | With Field operations | |
| Suggests the right tech | With Field operationsRanked on skills, service area, who is free, travel time and past jobs. | In partAI routes requests to a team or owner. |
| Tech app on the phone | With Field operations | In partThe general mobile app. |
| Customer equipment records | With Field operations | In partTracked with custom fields. |
| Maintenance agreements | With Field operations |
Scheduling calendar
- Operations Link
- Every plan
- Asana
Dispatch board
- Operations Link
- With Field operations
- Asana
Suggests the right tech
- Operations Link
- With Field operations
- Asana
Operations Link: Ranked on skills, service area, who is free, travel time and past jobs.
Asana: AI routes requests to a team or owner.
Customer equipment records
- Operations Link
- With Field operations
- Asana
Asana: Tracked with custom fields.
Maintenance agreements
- Operations Link
- With Field operations
- Asana
Projects
| Feature | Operations Link | Asana |
|---|---|---|
| Projects with task boards | Every plan | |
| Timelines and Gantt charts | In part · every planMilestones on a timeline; no Gantt chart. | |
| Change orders | With Field operations | In partA change-log template. |
Trucks and drivers
| Feature | Operations Link | Asana |
|---|---|---|
| Trucks and drivers | With Fleet | |
| Live map | Professional and up | |
| Route planning | With FleetA proposed order of stops; nothing changes until you apply it. | |
| Loads and dispatch | With Fleet | |
| Driver hours log | With FleetOn the driver’s phone; not a certified ELD. |
Trucks and drivers
- Operations Link
- With Fleet
- Asana
Live map
- Operations Link
- Professional and up
- Asana
Route planning
- Operations Link
- With Fleet
- Asana
Operations Link: A proposed order of stops; nothing changes until you apply it.
Loads and dispatch
- Operations Link
- With Fleet
- Asana
Driver hours log
- Operations Link
- With Fleet
- Asana
Operations Link: On the driver’s phone; not a certified ELD.
Money
| Feature | Operations Link | Asana |
|---|---|---|
| Invoices | Every plan | |
| Online payments | Not offeredClients record a cheque or a transfer in their portal, and you confirm it; your tech records payment on site. | |
| Holdback on invoices | Every plan | |
| Expenses | Every plan | In partApprovals in Service Management, on Enterprise. |
| Supplier bills and purchase orders | Every plan | In partPurchase-order approvals in Service Management. |
| Profit per project | Every plan | As an extraBudgets against cost, in an add-on. |
| QuickBooks Online | With BookkeepingYour books stay in your own QuickBooks. | Through another appThrough a third-party app. |
Invoices
- Operations Link
- Every plan
- Asana
Online payments
- Operations Link
- Not offered
- Asana
Operations Link: Clients record a cheque or a transfer in their portal, and you confirm it; your tech records payment on site.
Holdback on invoices
- Operations Link
- Every plan
- Asana
Supplier bills and purchase orders
- Operations Link
- Every plan
- Asana
Asana: Purchase-order approvals in Service Management.
Profit per project
- Operations Link
- Every plan
- Asana
Asana: Budgets against cost, in an add-on.
QuickBooks Online
- Operations Link
- With Bookkeeping
- Asana
Operations Link: Your books stay in your own QuickBooks.
Asana: Through a third-party app.
People and pay
| Feature | Operations Link | Asana |
|---|---|---|
| Employee records | With HR | |
| Hiring | With HR | In partA candidate-tracking template. |
| Time off | Professional and up | In partRequest forms and workflows. |
| Timesheets | Professional and up | |
| Payroll | In part · with PayrollPay runs calculate for Ontario, Canada today; your company runs them and stays the filer. |
Employee records
- Operations Link
- With HR
- Asana
Timesheets
- Operations Link
- Professional and up
- Asana
Payroll
- Operations Link
- In part · with Payroll
- Asana
Operations Link: Pay runs calculate for Ontario, Canada today; your company runs them and stays the filer.
Calls and messages
| Feature | Operations Link | Asana |
|---|---|---|
| Team chat | Every plan | In partThreaded messages, not live chat. |
| Email inside the app | Every plan | |
| Video meetings | Every plan | Through another appThrough Zoom. |
| Business phone system | In part · with the phone systemWith Vera or on its own: Canadian numbers today. Talk to us. | |
| Texting customers | In part · with the phone systemFrom your company’s Canadian numbers today. |
Email inside the app
- Operations Link
- Every plan
- Asana
Business phone system
- Operations Link
- In part · with the phone system
- Asana
Operations Link: With Vera or on its own: Canadian numbers today. Talk to us.
Texting customers
- Operations Link
- In part · with the phone system
- Asana
Operations Link: From your company’s Canadian numbers today.
AI
| Feature | Operations Link | Asana |
|---|---|---|
| AI assistant on your own data | With NovaFifteen days free when you start. | |
| AI that answers your phone | With VeraAnswers your customers about their own jobs, invoices and quotes, after checking who is calling. | |
| AI chat on your website | With LunaAnswers visitors on your website and saves each one as a lead in Operations Link; a service we set up and run. | Through another appThrough a third-party chatbot app. |
AI assistant on your own data
- Operations Link
- With Nova
- Asana
Operations Link: Fifteen days free when you start.
AI that answers your phone
- Operations Link
- With Vera
- Asana
Operations Link: Answers your customers about their own jobs, invoices and quotes, after checking who is calling.
AI chat on your website
- Operations Link
- With Luna
- Asana
Operations Link: Answers visitors on your website and saves each one as a lead in Operations Link; a service we set up and run.
Asana: Through a third-party chatbot app.
Reports
| Feature | Operations Link | Asana |
|---|---|---|
| Reports and dashboards | Every planDashboards on every plan; the report builder on Professional and Enterprise. |
Reports and dashboards
- Operations Link
- Every plan
- Asana
Operations Link: Dashboards on every plan; the report builder on Professional and Enterprise.
Questions
Asked when switching.
Does Operations Link have task boards like Asana’s?
Yes, on every plan: each project’s tasks in columns that move as the work moves, with owners, priorities and due dates, milestones on a timeline, and a health score that flags trouble early.
Can my clients follow a project, as in Asana?
Yes — in your client portal they see the project’s status, progress, milestones and your team, and you choose which projects each client can open.
Can I bring my Asana data across?
Your clients come in from a spreadsheet, and so do your team members; bank transactions import from a file. There is no one-click import from Asana. Book a call and we will look at the rest with you.
What does Operations Link cost?
Essentials is $79 per person a month and Professional $129, billed in US dollars. Services are priced on their own, on Professional and Enterprise. We leave Asana’s prices off this page because they change — their own pricing page has them.
Can I try it before I pay?
Yes. Fifteen days free on the plan you pick, with no credit card.
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