Function Point Alternatives for Agencies: Wieldy vs Function Point

Short answer: Function Point charges per user — $53 per user/month on Standardize billed annually ($58 monthly), $62 ($68 monthly) on Optimize — with no free trial listed and a sales demo as the way in (functionpoint.com/pricing, checked September 2026). If you are a 5-50 person marketing, creative or digital agency, the Function Point software alternatives worth your time are Wieldy, Productive.io, Scoro, Teamwork.com, Accelo and Workamajig. The one difference that changes the maths is pricing model: Wieldy charges a flat price per workspace, so cost stops moving when you hire.

Below is the arithmetic nobody else on this search result does — total monthly cost at 6, 12, 15 and 25 seats, every price sourced and dated — plus an honest read on when Function Point is the better buy.

Last updated: September 2026. Competitor prices are re-checked quarterly by the Wieldy team; next review December 2026. Prices may have changed since — always confirm on the vendor's own pricing page.

If you meant Function Point Analysis, this is not that page

Two unrelated things share the name.

Function Point Analysis (FPA) is a software-sizing metric invented by Allan Albrecht at IBM in 1979, standardised by IFPUG, with COSMIC function points as a later alternative method. It measures functional size to estimate effort and cost in software engineering. Nothing on this page is about that.

Function Point Productivity Software is a commercial agency management platform for creative and marketing teams — client, project, resource and financial management. That is the product this page compares.

If you came here for IFPUG counting rules or COSMIC sizing, you are in the wrong place. No hard feelings.

How much does Function Point cost per user per month?

Function Point publishes two plans (functionpoint.com/pricing, checked September 2026). It does not publish a seat minimum on that page.

No free trial is listed on that page. The route in is a booked demo. That is a deliberate model — guided onboarding suits agencies migrating years of job history — but it means you cannot look inside before you talk to someone.

Does Function Point offer a free trial, or do you have to book a demo?

As of September 2026, Function Point's pricing page lists no free trial and no published seat minimum; the calls to action are demo requests. If you need self-serve evaluation, that rules it out at step one for a lot of owners.

Among the alternatives, self-serve access splits like this:

Sources: wieldyapp.com, productive.io/pricing, scoro.com/pricing, teamwork.com/pricing, accelo.com/pricing, functionpoint.com/pricing, workamajig.com/pricing — all checked September 2026. If a vendor's model has changed since, check with them directly.

The total cost table: 6, 12, 15 and 25 seats

Per-user pricing looks cheap on a pricing page and expensive on a bank statement. Here is the same team size priced across each platform, using the annual (cheaper) rate where one is published. Team sizes used: 6, 12, 15 and 25 people. All figures are monthly totals in USD. monday.com is left out of this table because its pricing page shows prices in the billing country's currency (for example, euros when viewed from Egypt) rather than a fixed dollar figure — check monday.com/pricing directly for your country.

Sources: functionpoint.com/pricing, productive.io/pricing, scoro.com/pricing, teamwork.com/pricing, workamajig.com/pricing, accelo.com/pricing — all checked September 2026. Prices may have changed since. Annual billing assumed where a discount is published; Teamwork.com monthly billing is roughly 29% higher, Scoro annual saves 13-17%, Workamajig gives a twelfth month free on annual prepay.

Read the first two rows together. At 12 people, Function Point Standardize is $636/month and Wieldy Pro is $105/month — a difference of $531/month, or $6,372 a year, for the same headcount. At 25 people the gap widens to $1,151/month because one line grows with hiring and the other does not.

That is not a claim that the two products are identical. It is a claim that per-user and flat-workspace pricing behave completely differently as you grow, and that the difference is worth calculating before you sign anything.

What does Wieldy's own pricing look like?

Launch pricing — 40% off regular, locked for as long as the subscription stays active, offer ends 18 October 2026:

Flat per workspace, not per user. No per-client fees. Yearly billing is 10× the monthly price ($590 / $1,050 / $1,740). Month-to-month, cancel anytime.

When is Function Point the better buy?

Comparison pages that find nothing good to say about the competitor are marketing, not analysis. Function Point is the stronger choice if:

• You are an in-house marketing or creative department, not an agency. Function Point sells to both. Wieldy is built for agencies billing external clients.
• You need QuickBooks Online sync inside the platform. It is on Function Point's Optimize plan. Wieldy exports invoices, payments and reports to CSV for your accountant rather than syncing to a ledger.
• You want BI reporting as a packaged module. Also on Optimize.
• You want guided onboarding with a human, and years of agency deployments behind the product. Function Point has that history.
• You are a traditional creative shop with estimates, job costing and studio workflows as the centre of gravity.

If any of those are dealbreakers, book their demo. Genuinely.

What does Wieldy do that Function Point does not lead with?

Two things, and they are the reason Wieldy exists. Wieldy is built by Zerak (zerak.io); it began as the internal system of the marketing agency Zerak's founder, Ed Kamel, runs, so the features below were built to solve real month-end problems rather than added later as modules.

Tiered sales commissions. If you pay reps a percentage that steps up by band — say 5% to $20,000 of new business, 8% above it, for illustration only — most agency platforms make you reconstruct that in a spreadsheet each month. Wieldy calculates tiered commission against booked and collected revenue inside the system, so the payroll number is produced rather than reassembled. See how tiered sales commissions work for agencies and the agency sales commission plan template.

Media-buying money flow and reconciliation. Agencies that buy ads handle money that is not theirs. Client deposits in, platform spend out, management fee retained, balance carried. Wieldy tracks that flow per client and reconciles it against live Meta Ads and Google Ads spend synced into the platform, so you can see at any point what each client has funded versus what has been spent. Detail here: the agency media-buying reconciliation playbook.

Neither feature is something Function Point leads with on its own site. Whether either exists in some form on their platform is a question for them — ask directly in the demo.

The rest of Wieldy, so you can compare like for like:

• Growth ($59): clients and retainers, proposals, invoicing with online card payments via Stripe, expenses, payroll and HR records, tiered sales commissions, sales CRM and lead pipeline (web forms and WhatsApp), projects and tasks, content calendar, team chat, booking pages, 20+ built-in automations with no Zapier, company drive, email marketing, e-signatures, external collaborators, AI assistant (200 questions/month), 250 GB storage.
• Pro ($105) adds: branded white-label client portal with approvals, live Meta Ads and Google Ads sync, media-buying money flow and reconciliation, automated monthly client reports, public API and webhooks, AI assistant (900 questions/month), 550 GB storage.
• Scale ($174) adds: unlimited seats, multi-branch HQ with group rollups, AI assistant (1,200 questions/month), 1 TB storage.

Security: each agency workspace is isolated, access is role-based (owner, account manager, sales rep, HR, staff) and two-factor authentication is optional per user.

The AI assistant answers questions about your own live data by text or voice — who owes money, what profit looks like this month — and can take actions within each user's permissions. It speaks English and Arabic, including Egyptian and Gulf Arabic.

How should I choose between the alternatives?

Rough guidance by what is actually hurting:

• Cost per head is the problem, and you want one system for money and delivery — Wieldy. Flat pricing, self-serve trial.
• Resource planning and utilisation forecasting are the core need — Productive.io or Scoro. Both are strong at budgeting, capacity and time, both per-user. See the Wieldy vs Productive.io comparison and Wieldy vs Scoro comparison.
• You mostly need project management and a little invoicing — Teamwork.com Accelerate. See Wieldy vs Teamwork.com.
• You are a professional services firm beyond marketing (consulting, engineering, IT) — Accelo or Scoro, both of which position that way. See Wieldy vs Accelo.
• Traditional creative studio with heavy job costing — Workamajig or Function Point. See Workamajig alternatives.
• General work management across any team type — ClickUp (per-user, free tier, Unlimited $7/user/month annual, Business $12/user/month annual, AI add-on $9/user/month) or monday.com (per-seat, tiered, 14-day Pro trial, prices shown in your billing country's currency — check monday.com/pricing).

G2 and Capterra are useful for reading unfiltered complaints about each product. They are less useful for cost, because neither computes what your team size actually pays. That is what the table above is for.

What does switching from Function Point actually involve?

Migration is the real cost of changing agency platforms, and anyone who tells you otherwise has not done it. Expect to move clients and contacts, open projects, retainer schedules, unpaid invoices, historic financials your accountant needs, and user permissions.

A practical sequence that limits pain: start the new system at the beginning of a month, run open invoices to completion in the old one rather than re-keying them, move clients and active projects first, and export historic financials to CSV for the accountant rather than importing years of job history you will rarely open.

Wieldy does not currently promise import tooling or a fixed migration timeline. The honest starting point is the live demo or the 7-day trial with a couple of real clients loaded by hand. If you need to move existing data, talk to the Wieldy team about what is possible before you commit.

Where can I run my own numbers first?

Before comparing software, know what the software has to protect. Our free calculators are open, no signup, and can be embedded elsewhere by adding `?embed=1` to the tool URL in an iframe: the agency profit calculator, the retainer pricing calculator, the tiered sales commission calculator and the budget at completion calculator — see all tools. Related reading: how to price agency retainers and agency profit margin: how to calculate it and fix the four leaks. There are also free, no-sign-up agency proposal and agency invoice templates you can edit in the browser and download as Word or PDF.

Frequently asked questions

Is Wieldy cheaper than Function Point for a 12-person agency?

Yes, on list prices checked September 2026. Twelve people on Function Point Standardize billed annually is $636/month ($53 × 12). Twelve people on Wieldy Pro is $105/month flat, because Pro covers 15 seats. That is $531/month less, or $6,372 a year. On Function Point Optimize the comparison is $744/month versus $105/month. Prices may have changed since; confirm at functionpoint.com/pricing.

Can I try agency management software without talking to a salesperson?

Yes. Wieldy has a live demo workspace with sample agency data that opens from wieldyapp.com with just an email, plus a 7-day free trial with no credit card. Productive.io, Scoro and Teamwork.com all list 14-day trials. Function Point and Workamajig list no free trial as of September 2026, and Accelo sells through a demo with custom pricing.

Does Wieldy handle sales commissions and media-buying money flow?

Yes to both. Tiered sales commissions are on every plan including Growth ($59/month). Media-buying money flow and reconciliation, with live Meta Ads and Google Ads sync, are on Pro ($105/month) and Scale.

Does Wieldy replace QuickBooks or Xero?

No. Wieldy is not a full accounting ledger. It handles invoicing, card payments through Stripe, expenses, payroll records and commissions, and exports invoices, payments and reports to CSV for your accountant. Function Point's Optimize plan includes QuickBooks Online sync, which is a genuine advantage if in-platform accounting sync matters to you.

What are the best Function Point alternatives for a small marketing agency?

For a 5-50 person agency: Wieldy (flat workspace pricing, commissions and media buying built in), Productive.io and Scoro (strong resource planning, per-user), Teamwork.com (project-led, cheapest entry), Accelo (professional services, custom quote) and Workamajig (traditional creative studios, $49 per user/month at 10+ users).

Is "function point" the software product or the software-sizing metric?

Both, confusingly. Function Point Productivity Software is an agency management platform. A function point is also a unit of software functional size, defined by Allan Albrecht in 1979 and standardised by IFPUG, with COSMIC as an alternative method. This page is about the software product.

How hard is it to switch from Function Point to another platform?

Plan for clients, contacts, open projects, retainer schedules, unpaid invoices and historic financials. Most agencies switch at a month boundary, finish open invoices in the old system, and export history to CSV rather than importing it. Ask any vendor exactly what they will and will not import before you sign.

About the author. Ed Kamel is the founder of Zerak and Wieldy. Wieldy began as the internal system of the marketing agency he runs, so retainers, tiered sales commissions and media-buying money flow are core features rather than add-ons — he writes from running them himself.

Competitor pricing on this page was taken from each vendor's own public pricing page in September 2026 and is re-checked quarterly by the Wieldy team. Next review: December 2026. Where a feature is not discussed, it is because it is not clearly stated on the vendor's site — ask them directly rather than assuming absence.