Insighty + Redmine:
proven issue tracking, plus the financial layer
Redmine is a proven open-source issue tracker used by thousands of development and agency teams. Insighty is the financial and operations intelligence layer that Redmine was never designed to provide.
Redmine
Open-source issue tracking
Insighty
Client management, contracts & financial ops
Redmine
Open-source issue tracking
One of the most established open-source issue trackers in the industry. Redmine provides multi-project issue tracking, Gantt charts, time logging, and a rich plugin ecosystem for teams that need a reliable, self-hosted solution.
Best for
- Development teams with complex issue tracking needs
- Multi-project organisations with role-based access
- Self-hosted, open-source deployments
- Teams that rely on a broad plugin ecosystem
Insighty
Agency Intelligence Platform
The financial and operational intelligence layer agencies need alongside their PM tools. Connects clients, contracts, retainers, hosting, domains, invoices, and pipeline into one unified revenue view.
Best for
- Agency owners and operations managers
- Revenue planning and invoice tracking
- Retainer and contract management
- Financial forecasting and pipeline
Redmine is exceptional at multi-project issue tracking
This is not a "switch away from Redmine" argument. Redmine is a reliable, time-tested platform. Teams that have used it for years trust its stability and depth.
Mature, battle-tested issue tracking
Over two decades of active development make Redmine one of the most proven issue trackers available.
Multiple project support with role-based access
Manage many projects simultaneously with fine-grained role and permission controls per project and user.
Gantt charts and calendar views
Built-in Gantt charts and calendar views for scheduling and timeline visibility across issues.
Time tracking and reporting
Log time against issues and projects with aggregated time reports by user, project, or date range.
Flexible plugin ecosystem
A large library of community plugins extends Redmine with additional functionality for specific workflows.
Fully open-source and self-hostable
Completely free and open-source with full self-hosting support, giving organisations complete data control.
The questions Redmine cannot answer for agency owners
Redmine knows everything about issues and delivery. It knows nothing about the financial reality of running the agency that depends on that delivery.
"Which client contracts are generating revenue this month?"
Redmine tracks issues and time. It has no model for client billing, contract values, or revenue.
"Which retainer clients need invoicing and are at scope ceiling?"
Recurring billing cycles and maintenance contract management are not part of Redmine's design.
"Are we recovering hosting and domain costs in client invoices?"
Infrastructure cost recovery and renewal tracking are outside Redmine's scope.
"What will agency revenue look like next quarter?"
Redmine has no pipeline, probability weighting, or revenue forecasting capability.
What each tool handles
Different tools, different jobs. The overlap is minimal by design.
Capability
Redmine
Insighty
Issue tracking
✓
—
Gantt & calendar views
✓
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Time tracking
✓
✓
Role-based access control
✓
✓
Maintenance contract billing
—
✓
Revenue planning (multi-stream)
—
✓
"This Month" invoice view
—
✓
Hosting & domain renewal tracking
—
✓
Sales pipeline & forecast
—
✓
Client financial summary
—
✓
Invoice automation (recurring)
—
✓
Resource utilisation & billability
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✓
Keep Redmine for issue tracking. Add Insighty for financial intelligence.
Redmine is a reliable, time-tested issue tracking platform. Insighty doesn't replace it — it adds the revenue and financial operations layer that Redmine was never designed to include.