Plan a remodel or a store opening without another app: projects and Gantt charts

A leaky faucet is a ticket. Opening a second store is not.

It's forty things that have to happen in the right order: sign the lease, book the electrician, paint after the electrician is done, order fixtures, hire, train. Most small businesses end up running that in a spreadsheet nobody updates, a whiteboard in the back office, or a project tool the rest of the team never opens.

TicketStacker now has Projects in the left menu, built for exactly this.

A project is a list of tasks with dates

Create a project, give it a name and a short prefix (like OPEN, so tasks are OPEN-1, OPEN-2), and start adding tasks. Type a name, press Enter, and the next box is ready. Each task starts today and runs three days; drag its bar to the right dates later.

Big tasks break down into sub-tasks: press Tab while typing and the task tucks under the one above it. "Build-out" can hold "Electrical", "Paint" and "Flooring", and the parent bar stretches to cover them.

See it all on a Gantt chart

Every project opens as a Gantt chart: one bar per task from its start to its end, colored by status, with today marked in coral.

• Drag a bar to move a task, or drag either end to change its dates. It saves right away.
• Tasks can wait for other tasks. Say paint waits for the electrician: an arrow runs from one to the other, and it turns red when the plan doesn't add up, like paint starting before electrical is finished.
• The whole project at a glance. The top row runs from the first date to the last and fills in as tasks get done.

Prefer a list? Switch to List for every task with its status, owner, dates and how many days it takes.

Every task is a ticket

This is the part spreadsheets can't do. Each task is a real TicketStacker ticket, so it has an owner, comments, files, a history and reminders. Assign "Order fixtures" to your manager, and it shows up on their Today's Stack on the days it's scheduled. Nobody has to remember to check the project plan.

Keep it to the people working on it

Not every project is for everyone. A project can be open to the whole company, or limited to the people you add (an acquisition you're not ready to announce, say). Admins can also choose who sees the Projects menu at all.

Try it

If your next big project lives in someone's head or a spreadsheet, join the pilot. It's free while we build TicketStacker with a small group of businesses.