Licorice vs ConnectWise Manage Feature Comparison

Licorice vs. ConnectWise Manage at-a-glance

Joining

Free trial

Low cost

Licorice

Yes
Yes

ConnectWise Manage

No
No
Tech Training

Up and running

Mastery

Process adherence

Human error

2 hours

3 days

Excellent

Low to none

1 week

1 months

Process creep

Requires constant monitoring

Automation

Auto-update ticket status

Auto-update SLA clocks

Auto-notify techs of ticket of updates

Auto-capture time worked on ticket

See what other techs are working on in real-time

Auto-display recent tickets for user
on create ticket

Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
Clients, Users, and Sites

One-click see user contact details

Send to user to book appointment

Add and update users

Add and update clients

Add and update sites

List/search clients/companies

List/search users

Missing email addresses in red

Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Workflow

See ticket appointment history at a glance

See tickets and appointments together

See what other techs are working on in real-time

Identify ticket problems at-a-glance

View techs’ workload side-by-side

Drag tickets between techs

One-click reassign ticket

One-click copy to another tech

CC external party email addresses on tickets

Auto-display recent tickets for user
on create ticket

Find client by typing user’s name into ticket

Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
Scheduling

Client self-scheduling portal

Different scheduling and business hours

Restrict scheduling to certain clients

Branded self-scheduling portal

One-click request appointment with
user

Auto-reply to new service requests with scheduling link

Roster techs to client scheduling

Fully controllable scheduling rules

See tickets and appointments together

Dispatchers view

Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Partially Supported
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Efficiency and Performance

Guaranteed <50ms for any function

Average time to complete work

Average actions (click/typing/tab/drag)

Multiple tabs required

Yes

30–40 min per day

192 per day

Comfortable single
window

No

1½ – 2 hrs per day

612 per day

Several

Search

Find-as-you-type

Search by ticket #, tech, user, client,
free text

Intelligent AND / OR searching

Auto-display recent tickets for user
on create ticket

Find client by typing user’s name into ticket

Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
No
Data Entry and Integrity

Saves everything as-you-type

Undo send note

Undo time entry

Works with ConnectWise offline

Ticket checklists / tasks

Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Time and Documentation

Average time documented / billed

Techs update tickets

Management overhead

Add assets to tickets

Add configuration items to tickets

Update asset information

Update configuration item information

Classify ticket by type / subtype / item

Ticket checklists / tasks

Time entry rounding

Billable/not-billable

After-hours billing

105%–112%

Hourly

None — techs self-manage

Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes

84%–86%

Hours – days

Constant monitoring

Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Technicians

See what other techs are working on
in real-time

View other techs’ workload side-by-
side with yours

One-click reassign to another tech

One-click copy in another tech

Centrally assign techs to teams

Assign a tech to multiple teams

Easily identify techs with profile pics

Define working/rostered hours

Default appointment duration per tech

Personal tasks

Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Partially Supported
No
Yes
No
Teams / Pods

Centrally assign techs to teams

Assign a tech to multiple teams

Live notifications of team milestones

Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Security and Data

Two-factor authentication (2FA)

Force 2FA for all users

Ability to delete your data

Yes
Yes
Yes
Partially Supported
Partially Supported
Partially Supported
Sync

Full 2-way sync between ConnectWise and Licorice

Works standalone (without ConnectWise)

Works with ConnectWise offline

Outlook/Exchange sync

Gmail sync

Yes
Yes
Yes

Full sync via ConnectWise

Coming 2025

Yes

N/A

No
Yes
Partially Supported