Document management was strictly done within a centralized library (though you could put documents within project-centric folders). What you could not do, however, was attach documents to individual tasks or events.

Where Zoho Project seems to break down is in pricing, which is downright confusing. For instance, time-tracking is available, but you have to upgrade from the free plan that I was using to demo the product. I clicked on the link to see the pricing for time tracking, and was taken to a yearly pricing page that had prices that came out to be less expensive than the . The difference is very significant, too: if you sign up for the high-end Enterprise plan without trying the demo first, (which gets you 30 GB storage, and all the base features) it's listed as $80 month. Try the demo however and upgrade from there, and the price is $599 per year, which breaks down to $49.92 per month -- a 37.6 percent savings.

So right away, the lesson here is upgrade from the demo and pay the yearly fee to save some coin.

But that's not the only pricing confusion. Rather than price based on projects or tasks, Zoho Project plans differentiate by features within a base set, and then adds additional fees over and above that for other add-ons. Want a wiki feature for your projects? Add up to $149 per year or $40 per month depending on how you pay. Want an iPhone add-on? That'll be $3/user per month. And so on ...

While some of these add-ons are nice and not available in other tools (like the wiki and bug tracker systems), the sense of getting nickeled and dimed here is palpable, and tends to leave a bad taste in your mouth.