Project Management Software for Marketing Agencies in Toronto
A Toronto agency splitting its week between a Bay Street bank's campaign and a King West startup's launch is running two accounts that expect completely different things from the same retainer.
One clock, two very different clients
Toronto's agencies serve a genuinely split client base: risk-averse financial institutions around Bay Street who expect formal sign-off on every asset, and product-driven startups around King West and MaRS who want a launch turned around before the market shifts under them. The same small creative and account team ends up managing both relationships, often on the same day, and each client assumes their brief is the one getting full attention.
What that split hides is exactly how much time each side actually takes. A bank's careful, multi-stage approval eats hours in small increments across weeks. A startup's compressed timeline eats hours in a sudden burst before launch. Both are billable, and neither shows up reliably in a retainer's invoice if the record depends on someone remembering to write it down between calls.
ShipSprint gives each client its own board with its own WIP limits, so an account lead can see which side of the roster, the slow-moving financial account or the fast-moving startup, is quietly consuming more of the team's week than its retainer covers, before that becomes an uncomfortable renewal conversation.
What a Toronto agency's split roster actually needs
Per-column WIP limits keep a fast-moving startup launch from swallowing the whole team's week while a slower financial-services campaign quietly stalls.
Logging time takes about five seconds and sits right next to the task, so a multi-stage sign-off is billed against real hours, not a Friday-afternoon guess.
Incoming requests land in a shared inbox instead of one account manager's messages, so an urgent startup ask doesn't get buried behind a bank's approval chain.
Marketing gets its own board vocabulary, campaigns and content calendars, whichever kind of client is on the other end.
ShipSprint tracks delivery and capacity, not pipeline or contacts. Client work lives here; the client relationship still lives wherever it already does.
A team spread across the GTA
Between downtown offices, satellite spaces and people working from home in Brampton or Vaughan, a Toronto agency team is rarely all in one room. A weekly status call for every client adds up to a lot of unbillable hours fast, and it's rarely the fastest way to answer a client's "where's our asset" anyway.
A card's position on the board is the status, so an account lead can see where a deliverable stands without pulling anyone off their current task. Raising a blocker is one tap and pulls in whoever can actually unblock it, with context attached, and capacity accounts for approved leave so nobody gets assigned client work on a day they're not in. Support runs out of India, several time zones removed from Eastern time, so the product leans on things that don't need someone awake in both places at once, forecasts and digests that generate themselves.
Questions from Toronto agencies
Yes. Each client gets its own board with its own WIP limits and triage inbox, so a bank's careful sign-off process and a startup's rapid launch don't have to run on the same rhythm. The owner command center still shows both side by side.
Prices are set and charged in rupees; your card or bank converts to Canadian dollars at whatever rate applies that day, the same way any foreign-currency charge works. We won't quote you a fixed CAD figure since the rate moves, but at current rates a Business seat lands well under what most Canadian project tools charge per month.
No. ShipSprint doesn't manage pipeline, contacts or deals. It tracks the delivery side once a client is signed: the board, the time logged against their work, and whether the account has real capacity this sprint.
Free covers up to 5 users and 2 projects, permanently. Team is ₹299 per user per month, or ₹2,899 per user per year, for up to 40 users. Business is ₹599 per user per month, or ₹6,499 per year, and adds forecasts, scorecards, the owner command center and SSO. Every paid plan opens with a 14-day full-access trial on Business, sample project included, no card required. Full detail is on the pricing page.
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