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- Industry: Law Practice
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Clio is the Leader of the Pack
Reviewed on 09/10/2019
I have been using Clio for about 6 years. It has grown so much in that time. I am very pleased with the direction they have taken the product and I can't wait to see what else they come up with!
Pros
Clio is repeatedly at the top of the charts for available features. Clio is constantly working to improve their service and adding new features and functionality. We have had no problems to speak of. Any issues that we have had have been related to finding a particular option or feature.
Cons
I wish that Clio would support more advanced document generation. At present, it just does mail-merge-type generation. Substituting fields in Clio with a field indicator in a Word doc. I would love to be able to get rid of HotDocs and use Clio instead, but it just can't match what HotDocs can do. The other feature that I wish it supported is the ability for external uses (clients) to fill out forms or data, which can then be stored in Clio.
Alternatives Considered
Rocket MatterReasons for Switching to Clio
Clio has more features, functionality, and integrations than the competition.- Industry: Law Practice
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Clio has revolutionized our practice
Reviewed on 14/02/2023
Clio allows us to manage our cases and generate revenue from anywhere at anytime. It also allows our clients to have access to their files and participate in their cases in a way that wasn't possible before. Clio is user-friendly, it's constantly developing and improving, and the customer service and tutorial videos and articles are very helpful.
Pros
I was first introduced to Clio eight years ago at the ABA Tech Conference. I knew from the moment I saw it that it would revolutionize our practice, allowing us to work from anywhere yet stay on the same page, streamline our management of cases, and make the process easier for our clients, from following their case to being able to pay invoices online or through their phone. And I was right. Clio has done that for us and more.
Cons
Document Management was something that was missing for a long time, but Clio is improving there too. We hope to be able to get rid of our current document management system and transition to Clio Drive soon.
- Industry: Law Practice
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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You cannot rely on anything that employees of Clio tell you to be true.
Reviewed on 20/01/2023
Onboarding was a nightmare, with technical glitches that caused hours and hours of additional work and clean up. Syncing our contacts resulted in the destruction of our already used and curated list. Misrepresentations were made by salespeople as to what the software was capable of doing. As a result of all of that, we were made reasonable promises, in writing, as a condition of our not quitting Clio right then, and cutting our losses and time. Now, the first time a change has come up where that promise needs to be implemented, we were told it would not be honored. This resulted in many more hours of back and forth with "customer service". We have wasted two years of integrating our firm with this company, which we now have to undo to go to another service, costing us untold more hours of work. If they had not offered these promises, we would have left Clio during the onboarding process. Although we would not have been happy with our experience with Clio, we wouldn't have felt as strongly about not doing business with this company. Now, we have no option but to leave this service, because we cannot continue to do business with a company that places such little value on their clients and on the promises that they admit were made.
Pros
I have nothing positive to say about Clio at this time. Integrating our firm into their software was a major learning experience, which will guide me with the next software I choose.
Cons
The items added in the time that we have been with Clio have caused no improvement to our use of the product, although they use these additions as an excuse for raising their prices significantly. The "client portal" that they added does not even allow you to see if clients have viewed documents, which their old version did. Their new payment system only adds to their profits, so why would they utilize that as an excuse to pass on additional costs to their clients?
Reasons for Switching to Clio
Even though Clio was more expensive than our other final possible choices, we were made representations about what this software could do that exceeded the other offerings in assistance with our needs. However, once we started with Clio, we were immediately told that some of those representations were not functions of Clio at all.Response from Clio
Hi Kathy,
I'm very sorry to hear that about your experience with Clio. A member of our team is contacting you directly with you to work through these challenges
Kind Regards,
Jessica
- Industry: Legal Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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The whole system in one spot
Reviewed on 14/02/2023
Initially, this was a turbo-powered Italian sports car for a novice driver; it had far more tools than I needed. Over time, we embraced the CRM integration, document integration, and began to leverage processes though the use of CLIO.
Pros
We like the CRM/case management integration and the ability to use templates. We have a real estate and estate planning practice, both of which lend themselves to form documents, and we have further customized documents through integration with the CRM component to auto-populate documents.
Cons
My only issue is the way “non-billable” does not get shown on the invoices. I believe it is critical for the client to see this.
- Industry: Law Practice
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Excellent Tool for a Solo/Small Law Office
Reviewed on 24/02/2023
My experience has been good. Clio is never an impediment to productivity; its more like a helpful assistant that holds my information, knows where to find it, reminds me to do what I said I would do, and makes it easy to bill and collect money.
Pros
The Clio team helped me transfer data from my old billing program. Transition was seamless and painless. Clio is intuitive to use. As a solo practitioner I have neither the time for nor interest in hours of admin activity every week. Clio lets me track my work as I go, and provides the framework for organizing information about my clients and cases. At the end of the month I spend only about 2 hours reviewing and sending out bills.
Cons
More flexible report options would be helpful, particularly regarding A/R.
- Industry: Law Practice
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Total Transformation
Reviewed on 20/02/2023
With Time Matters software on its way out and our contract expiring, we knew it was time to make the jump to another platform. We entertained a few options but Clio came out on the top for us.
Pros
This platform is extremely user-friendly. We are still implementing the software with our staff but I believe there will be no problems - whether skilled with computers or not.
Cons
I was told by Clio staff that there are new releases coming for the software related to collection of client payments. These updates will be of the utmost importance to our firm. Being a smaller firm, we do not want to use Clio to allow our clients to pay due to the fees involved. However, I'm told that the ACH payment option will be coming as well as surcharging.
Alternatives Considered
LEAPReasons for Choosing Clio
Time Matters is going away and we were not able to utilize it to its fullest capacity.Switched From
Time Matters- Industry: Law Practice
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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We love Clio
Reviewed on 24/02/2023
From when I started in 2013, it has only gotten easier to use. Help is always available and I feel like it is extremely efficient and user-friendly.
Pros
Easy to use - there is almost no training needed for onboarding. Everything is user-friendly and help is just one click away! The questions and suggestions are passed along to Clio employees effortlessly.
Cons
It is a bit pricey for a firm of over 20 people.
Reasons for Switching to Clio
It was much more user-friendly and did a lot more that we needed.- Industry: Law Practice
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Clio is a great product.
Reviewed on 24/02/2023
Very satisfied. The training was great and the product is great.
Pros
How easy it is to bill. I love the dashboard. I love how easy it is to set up.
Cons
I wish it would integrate with OneDrive where if i saved something to OneDrive, it would automatically update the document in Clio.
- Industry: Legal Services
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Clio for the win
Reviewed on 24/02/2023
I would recommend Clio to others. I researched other practice management systems and Clio is very user-friendly.
Pros
Clio Suite is an all-inclusive product that has assisted my firm from start to finish with client files. Clio also integrates other business functions to make it smooth.
Cons
It would be nice to have manage and grow all in one area. Having to switch back and forth between the two, or having two tabs open is annoying at times.
Reasons for Switching to Clio
Had everything I needed for a price I was willing to spend.- Industry: Law Practice
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Don't Lie Awake Worrying about something you missed!
Reviewed on 23/03/2023
Excellent! We had a "glitch" with our conversion and they addressed it promptly. Training and follow up were excellent. Customer service and support are excellent.
Pros
The features help to insure that no deadline, follow up or task is missed. The mobile app and integration features add efficiency and helps to insure that all time is captured.
Cons
There are so many features that it can take some time to locate what you want until you become fluent.
Reasons for Choosing Clio
PC Law crashed EVERY time we tried to run bills. There was significant Unbilled Time that was missed and the program does not help to avoid it. Clients complained that invoices were difficult to read. Tech support was rude or nonexistent, then they jacked up the price.Reasons for Switching to Clio
Value and personal recommendation of a colleague.- Industry: Law Practice
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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clio law DATA management
Reviewed on 28/05/2020
Support easy super good. Clio fixed problems with non english characters in days, Timemattes did not fix it in 20 years we have been complaining.
Clio has extremely good search features and all sorts of filtering. For instance universal search that goes through matters, contacts, events, notes, tasks, time/expenses logs, documents content, doc, names, and communications (emails, sec. mess, phone log).
clio portal for clients, e sign easy to make form-documents connects to IP phone etc.
Faster law is a must I would say. To make a great package even better we subscribed also to Faster Law which has done a fantastic add on to Clio. There you get tools to capture your time automatically, the programs keeps track on how long you spend working on case files, e mails etc. in different cases and suggests billable time for that. There is a lot more like file handling, better way to link e mails, save and link attachments and files, you can explore your files on Clio’s serves in you file explorer.
Pros
For us the program has changed everything in the workflow to the better. In our opinion Clio’s forte is how flexible it is. Every law firm has its own different way of organizing workflow and Clio can accommodate for that, at least our whims and quirks which we have abundant of. The program is like potty in your hand. You mold and sculp the program according to your own special needs in the workflow. The only barrier is your own imagination. You decide how information is inserted, in what order and form and how it is presented. You make your own work procedures. You can organize and make chains of tasks beforehand and set the relevant type of chain of tasks to fit the case you are working on. Then, there and now, the future workflow is decided and set for that case.
Cons
You can not copy matters/cases and clients. It is not easy to move data fram TM to clio. We decided not to to it. Integration between outlook calander and clio calander does not work, it is so slow it is not usable. But the integration between google cal and clio cal is excellent.
Reasons for Choosing Clio
Time Matters is old fashioned, originally written for DOS and has restrictions therefore. Does not offer any real cloud solution only remote desktope.Reasons for Switching to Clio
Clio is flexible. Very stapple and predictable. Clio is easy to manage and learn. Excellent support. Handles non english characters well.- Industry: Legal Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Clio Review
Reviewed on 24/06/2019
My overall experience has been positive. There are plenty of resources for day to day activities and for more complex matters the live support has been indispensable. I find it easy to navigate and learn.
Pros
Initially it was a better system overall than the systems we were trying to make fit our needs (Timeslips and Sharepoint). Subsequently, the updates that are implemented by the development team when there is an obvious need or lack identified.
Cons
I did not like that the billing of outstanding balances was not automated during billing runs to capture all outstanding balances so anyone who does not have a current bill still gets a bill when I do not enter a start time as a filter option. I also do not like that I have to clean up so much on the Quickbooks Online end of a Retainer transfer, especially after a billing run when its many clients at once, it creates a lot of work in the Retainer in Trust register in QBO.
Alternatives Considered
AbacusLawReasons for Choosing Clio
In Timesplips we were having trouble with transfers and keeping track of the data that was not integrating into Quickbooks Desktop smoothly. We also wanted to switch to QBO but they do not integrate. There were system failures that created "broken AR's". The customer service was never immediate, I've spent many hours on hold or on the phone with someone who did not seem to care. It seemed like there was always something that would come up and the customer support was so bad that I would rather try to fix the problem myself or ignore the problem(unless it was timely) until I couldn't anymore. We only started using Sharepoint because Timeslips did not have an office management aspect of the software and it was not economical nor easy to set up, we ended up spending more money on a Sharepoint technician than a year subscription to Clio.Switched From
Sage TimeslipsReasons for Switching to Clio
Price difference I believe, but I honestly don't remember if there were other reasons as well.- Industry: Law Practice
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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All I Need
Reviewed on 20/10/2019
Terrific, a true game changer!
Pros
Clio provides an all in one suite of applications that are necessary for my law firm to operate. We used to rely on a stand-alone billing software program for our billing and time-tracking. Of course every computer or user we added cost us more money on top of the software itself. When the software became outdated and no longer supported, we had to purchase the latest version. We also relied upon emails to assign tasks, and give each other messages about the cases we were working on together- without a centralized location for the team to track and review each other's notes and progress, each member had to rely upon their own notes, memos, emails, etc. This was inefficient and time consuming. Another fun part of my day was searching for contact information of opposing counsel on particular matters. Often times I would search emails, review the documents on a case, or review documents in the file to get the contact information I needed. Calendaring was also an administrative hurdle. Entering dates in a separate software system led to disorganization, and required jumping around from one program to another to manage information and learn where attorneys were supposed to be.
Clio puts all of these functions , and more, under one roof. It has made the work flow in my law firm seamless, efficient, easy, and organized. Clio does it all, and I am truly grateful for this product.
Cons
I would like it to be easier to review the billing entries of other users in real time.
- Industry: Law Practice
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Very easy to use
Reviewed on 29/08/2019
It makes part of my job easier.
1.Attorneys are much more comfortable going into Clio by themselves to enter their time or find information/reports instead of having to wait and rely on me to do it.
2.It's much easier and faster to quickly generate reports that split Time (by keeper) and Expenses.
3.Monthly billing goes by much smoother, invoices go out faster, payments are received much faster than if by mail. Attorney's are happier. : )
4.Clients like to be able to receive email with link to process payments online.
Pros
Time entries can be imported by batch. Trust Requests and Bills can be emailed w/payment link directly from Clio. Past Due Bills can be "shared" with a coupled clicks versus printing out and mailing or using another app to email it.
Cons
1. When looking at a past due bill (and additional bills have been issued and remain unpaid for that same matter) the Outstanding Balance on the Statement of Account section will update and include the balance due for that matter as of the current date + any open Trust Replenishment requests instead of the balance due for that invoice + the balance due of all invoices issued previously to that one.
2. Evergreen Retainers - I keep getting calls from clients saying they can't view the "Shared" invoice when I have applied Trust funds that covered the whole balance. They can see the Trust Request to replenish funds used/applied to an invoice, but they can't see the actual invoice and review what was billed. I have to print the invoice to PDF and go to my email app and send from there.
3. I would like to see a report that shows that various billing rates per timekeeper for each client/matter.
- Industry: Law Practice
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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One of the first users of Clio and still give five stars.
Reviewed on 15/11/2022
Overall experience has been fantastic, and I have no intentions of ever-changing software. I will retire using Clio. Clio, along with Clio Grow, has enabled us to develop a smooth process for evaluating potential new clients using an intake questionnaire and customizing a pipeline.
Pros
It's too difficult to describe what is best, I could not manage my practice without this software. It is incredibly user friendly and easy to learn. I use pretty much all aspects of the software on a daily basis and have been using it for more than 10 years. My practice has grown from just one attorney, me, to now four along with paralegals and clerks. Clio has made the growth seamless.
Cons
I don't have any complaints whatsoever. The software has been essential to my practice in all ways.
Reasons for Choosing Clio
I used these at other firms. When I opened up my own practice I chose to use Clio.Reasons for Switching to Clio
Price, options, versatility, tech support.- Industry: Legal Services
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Solo Attorney Highly Recommends Clio
Reviewed on 19/08/2019
Clio has made me much more organized and efficient. My billing process is easier and smoother and I keep better track of accounts receivable. Much easier to track the progress of a file and leads. It is easy to share documents and communications securely with clients
Pros
Clio software is comprehensive and covers everything that I need as a solo attorney to keep my practice running smoothly and efficiently. Clio Grow is a new feature that helps me track leads, lead sources, the intake process, etc. It is very comprehensive and is easily merged with Clio Manage. The Clio help desk is excellent. Answers are always spot on. If they cannot fix my problem, they will honestly tell me that Clio does not have the capability that I'm looking for and they will offer to submit a request for that capability to be considered in the future. Clio is always looking to address customer needs.
Cons
Does not have all of the capabilities that I need but has most of them. Sometimes the queue for the help desk/chat is rather long.
- Industry: Legal Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Why Clio sucks and you'll only find out after investing far too much.
Reviewed on 26/08/2022
Eh... I should have cut my losses instead of hoping they will fix the glitches.
Pros
The HelloSign integration is the only reason I stay. It has the benefits of any basic CRM.
Cons
Customer service is horrendous. Sure they are polite and quite courteous in fact, however, it's like speaking to a brick wall. It's like everyone's drank the cool-aid. They avoid the acknowledging system limitations or errors like the pliegue which obviously comes from the top. There are far better CRM programs with true automation for far cheaper instead of the patch work of products branded as Clio. I could get the same, if not better, effect with Zapier.
Yes, I'm bitter because I've invested thousands of hours and dollars and now I'm stuck. As a sole practitioner, I do not have the money or man power to start all over again. I tell ALL my peers they are much better off using Dubsado and HelloSign than Clio. Tyring to get technical support is a time suck! The level of work/investment needed just to get the first tier customer support familiar with the product then explaining the issue is not worth addressing it AT ALL! They obviously receive minimal training and have NO real comprehension or experience with the Clio products themselves. It's like they are afraid to admin they don't know or they don't understand. They are just key word searching in the help index which I've ALREADY DONE!
Reasons for Choosing Clio
Cost, ture email and workflow automation, questionnaire customization, it's just a far superior CRM.Switched From
DubsadoReasons for Switching to Clio
I believed the hype and the sales pitch. Just because is cost more doesn't mean the company has invested that into it's product. They just have a larger marketing budget.- Industry: Law Practice
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Intuitive and Flexible
Reviewed on 05/12/2022
I am happy with Clio and the support they provide. It's helped keep the firm, as well as our third-party answering service, organized and consistent.
Pros
The ability to integrate other software enable using other software to address aspects of Clio which are good, but not great. As an example, Clio Management's task management is good, but there is not a kanban or gantt feature, but I can easily integrate with Asana, Monday.com, etc.
Cons
Some aspects address needs in a basic manner, but are not as robust as software which is specifically designed for a single purpose. Using the same example as mentioned in the "Pros" - the task management works and can be automated, but it does not have highly specific features such as kanban or gantt.Additionally, the syncing between Clio Grow and Clio Manage could improve. The two do not sync completely - certain items (ex. emails, I believe) do not sync.Lastly, when trying to export specific sets of data, Clio is time-consuming. We had an attorney who left our firm, and providing her the information from her clients required going to each client and selecting "export" for each aspect of the clients' data (such as, emails, documents, contacts, transactions, etc.)
Alternatives Considered
PracticePanther Legal SoftwareReasons for Choosing Clio
Cosmolex is not intuitive. It took a long time for me to become comfortable with the system, and it was not worth the time and energy for getting additional people up to speedMyCase was more intuitive, but lacked integrations which could have enabled better automation than MyCase had.- Industry: Law Practice
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Fantastic product!
Reviewed on 28/08/2019
The experience has been great. The support team is very helpful and made getting set up a quick process, and they've helped solve several operator-error problems along the way. We don't yet use the full capability of what Clio can do, but it's nice to know we have room to grow our practice without outgrowing the software that helps us manage it.
Pros
Clio easily tracks time and expenses, keeps client and matter details organized, generates invoices, and gives us reports that help track our firm's growth. It is easy to learn, easy to use, easy to customize to our practice, and has very helpful and responsive customer service. Since it's cloud based, we can also work remotely as needed. Very glad to have Clio!
Cons
I like most everything about Clio except that it can be slow if our internet service is being slow (not Clio's fault, but it comes with being cloud-based).
Every once in a while I find a glitch that frustrates me in creating invoices. Usually, though, chatting with customer support online leads to a) their showing me how to solve my problem, or b) the problem being sent to tech support for fixing in Clio's system.
Alternatives Considered
Sage TimeslipsReasons for Choosing Clio
Our previous software is commonly used in accounting firms but didn't fit as well with the needs of our law firm. As we grew we found we needed different capabilities than that software offered.Reasons for Switching to Clio
Clio offered a better value for the service offered, a shorter spin-up time and a more approachable platform. I still learn more about it's capabilities every day, but was able to understand enough to start working within it after the first walk-through with the support team.- Industry: Law Practice
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Review of Clio use and functionality
Reviewed on 05/11/2019
I have been able to delegate more to my support staff by using the different scheduling and tasking features without giving up on my oversight, since I can verify overdue tasks and completed tasks. Also, my staff has been able to manage my calendar through the case and firm calendar features which allows me to draft more and be able to schedule more hearings.
I am in and out of the office most days and the cloud-based aspect of this software and mobile app allows me to keep track of my schedule, access my matters, and contact clients as needed.
Overall my experience has been excellent; I moved from using 4-5 programs and apps to manage my practice, to using 2 because of the integration in the Clio suite. I have recommended this software to several friends and have help to train some of them on the basics while they were feeling it out.
Pros
I like the fact that there are different levels of cost for the need of your business. I started with one user on the lower tier, then moved up to include more options and added a user. I like the fact that not only does it provide billing and payment integration, but, at the time I upgraded, it included the monthly cost to use Law Pay (which I have also found helpful).
Cons
I feel there are some personal preferences I would like to use in my reports viewing and accounting. But there was a recent revamp rolled out a few months ago that did address some of my needs. Admittedly, although I have used the product for almost 4 years now, I have not watched all the tutorial videos or called with all of my specific questions, even though with the boutique package there is a dedicated help line.
Alternatives Considered
AbacusLawReasons for Switching to Clio
I liked the feel of the product and flow of the features better. Also, I have friends who made the switch to Abacus and after they moved all files and information decided it wasn't exactly what they were looking for, but did not want the headache of making another switch.- Industry: Law Practice
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Clio is a mixed bag
Reviewed on 01/09/2019
The worst is retainers. Without being able to customize my email message globally, I can't use the trust payment request. It just confuses clients. Did I say hours and hours and hours? I will say that their service is fabulous. However, they keep making new abilities that to me are inconsequential compared with retainers. Oh, and not having global text snippets? How hard can that be? I have to go to 8 different users if I add something. Really a waste of time. Fix the real stuff. Then add bells and whistles.
Pros
I love that billing is so much easier, that my team can enter time remotely.
Cons
Clio was not developed by any sort of accountant. The reports are lacking, you can't memorize reports, everything within the software isn't consistent (like using the term everyone one place and all users in another place). The reports are inconsistent with what you can filter by on each report. There are still things where my account names are redundant - like Johnson - Divorce: Divorce. The biggest gripe I have is about replenishing retainers. The retainer replenishments don't get printed on the bill - I know it is because clio payments won't let you make a combined trust/legal fee payment, but they could have one link for anything owed and another link if a replenishment is due. Really - we webt to the moon 50 years ago but we can't figure this out? I spend hours and hours dealing with contacting clients to replenish. Also, way you enter into clio is clunky. I have to pick up my mouse all the time. It needs to be more like quickbooks entry. You never have to pick up your mouse.
- Industry: Law Practice
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Clio has changed my life!
Reviewed on 04/02/2020
My CFO's timed has been freed up tremendously because we now bill with Clio and she does not have to enter time from all users into a similar computer software. We all can work from anywhere and capture our time with the Clio app! Love it!
Pros
I love the functionality of Clio, and how we can manage time for each user on multiple devices. I not longer have to keep up with my start time for a task, my completion time, the calculation with what portion of an hour was teh time, or completing timesheets for a billing professional to then enter into a software to generate client invoices. Additionally, the billing process has been simplied and can be run from any computer. Further, the ability to keep up with each staff member's productivity is AWESOME! Clio has definitely changed my legal life!
Cons
Getting acclimated was sort of difficult because my rep was new at the time. The regular support team helped us with the remaining onboarding.
Alternatives Considered
MyCaseReasons for Choosing Clio
We needed the flexibility that Clio offers for billings. We also have Clio Grow, and it has made new client intake a breeze!Switched From
Sage TimeslipsReasons for Switching to Clio
Clio had better customer service and unlimited storage space for documents.- Industry: Legal Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Clio's billing system
Reviewed on 15/11/2019
Overall, our experience with Clio's billing system has been positive - everyone likes the time entry. We are glad we went to Clio, its so much better than that other program we had been using.
Pros
We got Clio specifically for its billing program. Its great that everyone can enter their own time into Clio. I like how Clio does “macros” [they call them “text snippets”]. They work without having to use a code key.
The software is easy to use – for someone like me who is not a bookkeeper and hasn’t done a lot of billing before, it takes a little while to learn how to use it correctly, but once you know how things work, it’s a breeze. The very best thing about Clio, though, is its support staff! They are all great – it doesn’t matter who I’ve talked to they are all quick at getting to the root of my problem and showing me how to fix it. I have called other companies asking questions about their software and sometimes you just don’t believe what they tell you. It has never been that way with Clio – every one of their support staff is very knowledgeable and can quickly set you straight!
Also, Clio is open to suggestions from us and when they get a certain amount of inquiries asking if “they could change this or that”, they will work on it. We have been using Clio for 2 years next month and there are a couple of things they have implemented that we had requested, which is really cool!
Cons
Spell checking in the billing software is not what it could be – it does have the little red underlines if it thinks something is misspelled [like Word], which apparently is easy for some people to ignore. It would be better if Clio had its own dictionary and didn’t depend on the one in the browser. In order to do spell checks, we have to: export the time to a CSV file, spread out the column for the description, run a spell check and remember not to correct the errors there, but go back and find each entry in Clio and correct them there. It’s a little time consuming, and depending on how many typos each person makes during the month, it can be very time consuming, but its much better than reading the draft invoices word for word and finding the errors that way. It would be great if Clio could add spell checking so that it can be run in Clio without having to export and go back and forth.
The only other “con” we have with Clio’s billing system is with discounting invoices. It is very easy to discount an invoice by percentage or a dollar amount, but Clio only applies discounts on the total amount of the invoice, including client expenses, not on time spent only, so we usually put in a dollar amount so the discount comes out to the amount we want it to be , although Clio still applies that amount to the entire invoice.

- Industry: Law Practice
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Best in Class for Small Firms
Reviewed on 29/08/2019
In addition to what I wrote above, Clio Management's customer service and technical support are great. They are still working out the kinks on the Clio Grow side after acquiring Lexicata (which I also used and was happy to see integrated). I am excited to see what improvements they have in connecting up the two systems.
Pros
I've been using Clio since 2010. I have tried other software over the years. I also originally had to use other software that integrated with Clio, but slowly have been able to reduce subscriptions as Clio built out features. Clio is the best in class, affordable, and the software around which I ultimately chose to build all my systems. I like that Clio allows me to manage the entire client file, including documents and emails, bills, and file shares, all within a single integrated system. Less software is cheaper, easier to manage, helps me capture details, and requires less employee training and management.
Cons
Clio still has some features and kinks to work out. Not everything is intuitive. Its plugin with Outlook is a little slow and I don't like that it strips the attachments from emails when placing them in the file. There still isn't enough flexibility in fee arrangements. It could improve the marketing side quite a bit. And I wish you could edit billing entries in bulk a little easier (especially if you made a mistake in one edit, it doesn't save and you lose ALL your edits -- super annoying). That said, all of these bugs and annoyances get addressed by Clio over time. They continually improve and grow the software. So I don't feel that there are any fatal flaws; just quirks that you learn to work around.
- Industry: Law Practice
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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Very Satisfied
Reviewed on 16/09/2019
Very satisfied; excellent product.
Pros
Easy to use -- calendaring, opening new matters, time entries, notes, billing. I like the interface, the way it looks. Program includes trust accounting. Can include/integrate credit card billing as an option which I did, and works well. Have used Law Pay for a while and it integrates through Clio. Send out invoices through Clio, client can click on button to make credit card payment, and have option to have program automatically apply to open invoices when payment comes in -- get email notifications of payments. Very satisfied with the program -- does what I need and enjoy using.
Cons
I don't think it's a negative factor, but don't use the mobile app much, for whatever that means. Tend to just check my iphone calendar (I use Office 365 to integrate, other options also I think like Google to integrate -- Clio integrates with Office 365 and iphone calendar will show Office and Google calendar events). There is a new beta version of the mobile app available for use that looked at today and I like -- I could see using that to make entries if I need while out of the office, but usually just do all of that at my computer in the office.