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# The best Asana alternative for customer-facing teams (2026)

> BlueHill is the customer-ops-focused Asana alternative for teams running onboarding, project delivery, support, and billable work. Native customer record, email, portal, time tracking → invoices.

## Why teams switch from Asana to BlueHill

Asana is a beautiful general-purpose project management tool. For internal team coordination and OKR tracking, it's excellent. For customer-facing operations, customer-success teams keep running into the same gaps:

- No first-class customer object — just tasks with custom fields
- No native email integration on the customer record
- No branded customer portal — only public task shares
- Time tracking is a 2024 beta feature; invoicing requires integrations
- Internal-only notes require a private-task workaround

BlueHill is the customer-ops-specific Asana alternative.

## What BlueHill does that Asana doesn't

- Customer record as a first-class data model
- Native Gmail/Outlook → customer email lives on the customer
- Branded portal with per-customer logins
- Time tracking with QuickBooks invoice export, native on all plans
- Onboarding templates with relative-date scheduling
- Explicit internal-notes layer

## Pricing

| Plan | Starts at |
|---|---|
| Starter | $29/user/month |
| Professional | $79/user/month |
| Enterprise | Custom |

## Migration steps

1. Export each Asana project to CSV
2. Map your client column to BlueHill's Customer object
3. Rebuild templates as BlueHill relative-date onboarding plans
4. Wire email + invoicing

Typical time: 1–3 days for 10-person teams.

## Ready to try BlueHill?

[Start a 14-day free trial](https://app.usebluehill.com/sign-up) or [book a demo](https://cal.com/himanshu-minocha/bluehill-intro).

See the full comparison: [BlueHill vs Asana](/compare/asana).

## Related

- [BlueHill vs Monday.com](/compare/monday)
- [BlueHill vs ClickUp](/compare/clickup)
- [What is customer operations?](/what-is-customer-operations)
