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Contract IDs, notes, anything typed.
Custom fields
Paywalled everywhere else. Free forever here.
Money, rating, people, dropdown — 12+ field types that shape tasks around your workflow, not the other way around. Every type, on every project, for unlimited users. $0.
12+ field types, all freeFilter & search under 0.008sUnlimited users & projects
Northwind Website · Sprint 24 · NW-114
Homepage redesign — Northwind build
Custom fields 10Manage fields
Budget$4,200Money
Client rating★★★★★4 / 5
Go-liveJul 24, 2026
PriorityHigh
QA sign-offSigned off · Jul 1
Account ownerPPriya Sharma
Client contactava@northwindco.com
Story points8
Contract IDNW-2026-114
Billing currencyUSD · $
Add field12+ types · every one free
12+ field types
Pick a type. Skip the upgrade screen.
Dropdowns to money to people — every field type ships in the free, self-hosted build. No “available on Business” footnotes anywhere.
Number
Story points, quantities, counts.
Client contacts, right on the task.
Checkbox
Sign-offs and yes/no gates.
Currency
USD, EUR, INR — set per company.
Dropdown
Your options, your colors.
Date
Go-lives, renewals, deadlines.
Money
Budgets that sum in Table view.
Rating
Score leads, vendors, releases.
People
Owners beyond the assignee.
…and counting
12+ types ship in v14.7.0, and the field system keeps growing release by release. Missing one your workflow needs? Alian Software builds custom features on request.
Fields everywhere
Every field is a column, a filter, a 0.008s search
Custom fields aren’t a sidebar decoration. They’re first-class citizens of every view — sortable, filterable, and summable.
Columns, not clutter
Drop any field into the Table view as a sortable column. Money fields total automatically in the footer — budget rollups without the spreadsheet export.
Filters that stack
Combine field filters across a project — Budget over $2,000, Rating four-plus — and every view narrows to exactly the work you asked about.
Answers before the blink
Search and filter results land in under 0.008 seconds — less than a single frame on your monitor. Your custom data, at reflex speed.
TableBudget > $2,000 ×Rating ≥ 4 ×Search fields
3 of 24 tasks match · 0.006s
TaskBudgetRatingGo-live
PHomepage redesign — Northwind$4,200★★★★★Jul 24
SBrand refresh sprint$2,950★★★★★Jul 28
DCheckout flow A/B test$5,000★★★★★Jul 31
3 tasks$12,150★ 4.3 avg
Violet columns are custom fields — sorted, filtered, and summed like anything built in.
Custom fields14 fieldsCompany settings
Northwind Co.Aurora GmbHAlian Internal
Default currencyApplies to new Money fields in this companyUSD — US Dollar
Money preview“Budget” field, formatted for Northwind Co.$4,200.00
CompanyCurrencySame field
Northwind Co.USD$4,200.00
Aurora GmbHEUR€2.750,00
Alian InternalINR₹1,84,000
Managers can create fieldsRole: Manager · permission 23 of 40+
Guests can edit field valuesRole: Guest · read-only by default
Per-company control
One server, every company, every currency
AlianHub runs multiple companies on a single install — and each one gets fields, defaults, and money formats of its own.
Per-company field libraries
Each company on your server keeps its own field setup and defaults. The client workspace never inherits the internal one’s clutter — or its data.
Money that speaks local
Multi-currency support formats budgets the way each company reads them — $, €, ₹, and more. Same field type, native notation everywhere.
Guarded by 40+ permissions
Custom roles decide who defines fields and who just fills them in — per company, per role. See permissions & security.
The honest bit
The feature everyone else sells back to you
No scare tactics, just pricing pages: custom fields sit behind paid plans elsewhere. Here they ship in the free build — all of them.
AlianHubFree forever
- All 12+ field types included — money, rating, people, and the rest, on day one.
- Self-hosted, unlimited users — fields don’t get more expensive when the team grows.
- Sums, filters, and search under 0.008 seconds — fields as fast as they are free.
- AGPL-3.0 open source — the field system is code you can read, on a server you own.
ElsewhereBehind paid plans
JiraLimited on free
ClickUpPaid plans
AsanaPaid plans
Based on publicly listed plans, July 2026. Trademarks belong to their owners.
Keep exploring
Custom fields play well with others
The rest of the platform is just as allergic to upgrade buttons.
Ten views List, Board, Table, Calendar, Workload and five more — your fields ride along.Dashboards & reports Milestone and performance reports your stakeholders will read.Permissions & security 40+ granular permissions decide who defines fields.AI assistant Draft descriptions, tasks, and whole sprints — your LLM key.