About My Online Staff
My Online Staff is a management tool for people who work with outsourced online staff. It replaces spreadsheets with a dashboard that holds worker profiles with contact info, role, company, status and notes, groups workers by client or initiative into projects, and categorizes them by service type with custom colors set by an admin.
A budget versus spend view compares the planned budget for each project against actual monthly spend across the team. Each user's data is isolated, and admins manage shared categories. The tool is meant to scale from one assistant to dozens of remote workers across several projects.
It also describes a hiring flow: you post a request with the role, skills, budget and location, review matched candidates with profiles, ratings and availability, then hire and manage them in the same dashboard. A free plan is available with no credit card.
Key features
- Worker profiles with role, status and notes
- Projects grouped by client or initiative
- Custom worker categories with colors
- Budget versus spend comparison
- Per-user data isolation
- Hiring requests with matched candidates
Good fit for
- Managing a team of virtual assistants
- Tracking spend per client project
My Online Staff: questions and answers
- What is My Online Staff used for?
- My Online Staff is a dashboard for managing virtual assistants and remote freelancers, with worker profiles, projects, budget versus spend tracking and a hiring request flow. It is a good fit for managing a team of virtual assistants and tracking spend per client project.
- Is My Online Staff open source?
- No. My Online Staff is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. In the Project Management category, open-source options include Plane, Huly and WeKan.
- What are some alternatives to My Online Staff?
- My Online Staff competes with Hubstaff, Time Doctor and Connecteam.
Open-source alternatives to My Online Staff
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Plane
Project Management
π₯π₯π₯ Open-source Jira, Linear, Monday, and ClickUp alternative. Plane is a modern projec
AGPL-3.0vs Jiraβ 60k
Huly
Project Management
Huly, an open-source platform, serves as an all-in-one replacement of Linear, Jira, Slack,
EPL-2.0vs Jiraβ 28k
WeKan
Project Management
The Open Source kanban, built with Meteor. GitHub issues/PRs are only for FLOSS Developers
MITvs Trelloβ 21k
OpenProject
Project Management
OpenProject is the leading open source project management software for product, project an
GPL-3.0vs Jiraβ 16k
Planka
Project Management
PLANKA is a self-hosted Kanban board for agile project management. Real-time collaboration
OSSvs Trelloβ 13k
Leantime
Project Management
Leantime is a goals focused project management system for non-project managers. Building w
AGPL-3.0vs Asanaβ 12k
SaaS alternatives to My Online Staff
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Hubstaff
Productivity
Time tracking and workforce management with activity monitoring
SaaS
Time Doctor
Productivity
Employee time tracking with screenshots and productivity reports
SaaS
Connecteam
HR & Recruiting
Mobile app for scheduling, tasks and communication with deskless teams
SaaS
Teamwork
Project Management
Project management for client work with time tracking, billing and resource planning
SaaS
Paymo
Project Management
Project management with timesheets, invoicing and task boards for small agencies
SaaS
Plutio
Project Management
Business management app for freelancers with projects, invoicing, contracts and proposals
SaaS

