You’re probably most familiar with Power-Ups from those mindless video games we play during our downtime—actions, add-ins, or digital shortcuts that give you an extra boost to win the round. It’s exactly how Trello Power-Ups work for Trello as well. They work as productivity hacks that help you work faster and more efficiently.
What are Hipporello's Power-Ups?
The Power-Ups by Hipporello are specialist instruments made to increase the functionality of your Trello boards in different ways. They natively integrate with Trello, bringing a service desk, knowledge base, hiring tool, approval system, and more to your process and transforming your boards into fully functional apps.
Teams wishing to handle more complicated projects, including interactions with customers and internal support, without having to leave their Trello environment will find these Power-Ups quite helpful. Depending on the type of workflow, they provide user portals, forms, email integrations, automations, and more.
Benefits of Trello Power-Ups
On its own, Trello has unique resources allowing users to customize boards to suit business needs, but adding these integrations for productivity takes it to another level. There are many benefits to adding and using Trello Power-Ups, including:
Bringing email communication to one spot so nothing is lost in the shuffle.
Managing projects to ensure they are moving forward appropriately and tackling issues before they become more significant problems.
Managing approvals right on your Trello board.
Keeping customers happy by offering ticket management through one app delivered to the team for much faster response.
Offering one place for all your team’s work instead of multiple apps they’ll need to download and check.
These integrations can be a game-changer for your team, and you can browse hundreds of options in the Power-Ups marketplace —but we have a few favorites!
What are some tips for optimizing Trello Power-Up usage?
To maximize the benefits of these integrations, consider the following tips:
Assess Your Needs: Before adding Power-Ups, evaluate what functionalities your team needs most. This guarantees that you choose Power-Ups with actual value added.
Keep It Simple: Only use Power-Ups that enhance your workflow. Overloading your board with unnecessary add-ons can lead to clutter and confusion.
Regularly Review Your Choices: Projects may change as your needs do. Make sure the Power-Ups you have activated are still helpful by reviewing them from time to time.
Utilize Automation: Some Power-Ups come with effective automation features. Utilize these to cut down on monotonous work and free up your team’s time for more important projects.
Train Your Team: Make sure everyone knows how to use the integrations effectively. Proper training ensures that all team members can leverage the full capabilities of your enhanced Trello board.
Power-Ups that boost productivity
1. Google Drive
Great for: File management
What is it?
With the Google Drive Power-Up, you can access your files and folders on the relevant Trello cards. It lets you search your Drive and attach files and folders with file previews and a link back to the file for easy access. This Power-Up makes sharing information easy and professional by turning your Trello board into a Google Slides presentation with a single click.
Pricing: Free
2. Jira
Great for: IT & Project management
What is it?
Jira is designed to support Agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban, that helps teams break down IT projects and manage product iterations. It also tracks bugs and provides a platform to test software.
Hipporello's Service Desk is a Trello-native alternative to Jira. Hipporello's Service Desk allows Trello users to receive tickets, bugs, and issues in the form of Trello cards through forms and emails and communicate with clients from inside the created ticket.
Pricing: Freemium and Premium
3. Hipporello's Service Desk
Great for: Ticket management and customer support
What is it?
A well-functioning service desk is critical for happy customers. Hipporello's Service Desk Power-Up turns your Trello board into a virtual service desk through form submissions and email messages that create Trello cards.
The Power-Up lets you:
customize Trello-native forms or
jump right in with ready-to-use templates.
You’ll receive form submissions and emails as Trello cards, where you can collect all the information you need to handle the ticket or communicate with the customer. The tool includes email automation to ensure every submission has a response and it allows external communication with non-Trello users, directly from Trello cards!
Pricing: Free; 10$ per agent for premium plan
4. Card Aging
Great for: Card & task management
What is it?
With Card Aging, you can see cards that haven’t been touched or updated in a set amount of time. This integration has two methods of showing your cards’ age: regular, which becomes progressively more transparent, and pirate, which turns cards yellow with cracks and tears like a pirate map! It’s a fun way to keep your boards uncluttered.
Pricing: Free
5. GitHub
Great for: Developer Tools
What is it?
This integration brings developer tools into Trello. The integration lets you attach branches, issues, and pull requests to the right cards, assign color codes to help identify cards that haven’t passed checks, and show the status of pull requests on the cards. Developers can move to GitHub with a single click to work on their assignments.
Also, the Kanban method that Trello provides is one of the most preferred agile methodologies that the developer teams adopt.
Pricing: Free
6. Status Page
Great for: Incident management
What is it?
Uptime is essential when your business relies on a website or software systems, and you could lose sales, customers, and more when you don't know something is amiss. The Status Page by Hipporello lets you integrate incident management and system status into your Trello workspace.
You can publish status updates on system events or issues, show downtime in real time, and announce scheduled maintenance on your website with the Status Page for Trello.
Pricing: Free Trial and Premium
7. Countdown
Great for: Task management
What is it?
Countdown is super-charged due date management for all types of teams and is perfect for visual reminders of upcoming due dates or overdue projects. Created by Sparkodes, this integration adds a countdown when your card is due. When the time is up, the card is marked red to encourage prompt action. The PRO option includes countdown formats, customizable colors for days, hours, and minutes, and countdowns for all due dates on your board.
Pricing: Free and $15 one-time fee per user for premium features
8. Slack
Great for: Communication
What is it?
Slack is one of the gold standards for workplace chatting, quick file sharing, and group messaging. The integration adds project collaboration to the list of features! This integration lets users send a Trello card directly to Slack through channels or direct messages, associate a message with a board, and add a conversion now to a Trello card. With the Slack integration, you can chat with your teammates about a project and link the conversation to the correct project without searching Slack messages after the fact!
Pricing: Free
9 . Trello Card Share
Great for: Collaboration with non-Trello users
What is it?
Trello boards are designed for internal communication and collaboration, but sometimes you need to share cards with external stakeholders or clients. Hipporello's Trello Card Sharing Power-Up allows external visitors access to parts of Trello cards through a link or a private group. The cards are available through a portable where you’ll be able to hold conversations that link to the card for future reference.
By bringing conversations into Trello, teams can more easily track responses! Faster responses mean happier clients!
Pricing: Free
10. Private Notes
Great for: Organization
What is it?
Sometimes you need a place all your own to track private notes about a project, reminders and follow-ups, or meeting takeaways. After all, not all your thoughts need to be an open book! With the Private Notes Power-Up, you can keep a log of private notes within your cards and boards.
Add personal to-do, notes from customer support calls, or client feedback only you can see on your shared boards. Private Notes Power-up is way better than a pile of sticky notes!
Pricing: 14-day Free Trial, and then $2/month per user for unlimited Trello boards when you pay monthly.
Bonus:
You can also build your own Power-Up without writing a line of code. Hipporello Custom Power-Up Builder provides a visual Trello Power-Up builder that doesn't require any coding knowledge or experience. You can open up your business to endless possibilities with even limited resources and technical skills with this power-up builder.
You can also see the list of the Trello Power-Ups we have built using our own power-up builder.
Closing Remarks
The options are essentially limitless. These integrations can be installed to increase platform functionality and to gather all of your favorite tools in one convenient location.
This list will keep you on track with less digital clutter or multiple apps so you can enjoy the most productive year ever.
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