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Project Management Software for Marketing Agencies in Vancouver

A Vancouver agency handling launch marketing for a game studio and an always-on retainer for a SaaS client is running two accounts with almost opposite rhythms on the same small team.

Launch bursts and steady retainers, at the same time

Vancouver's agency clients reflect the city's split economy: game studios and VFX houses whose marketing needs arrive in intense bursts tied to a release date, and a SaaS or fintech sector running steadier, always-on campaign work in between. The same small creative team often serves both, and the studio's launch week doesn't care that a SaaS client's monthly content calendar was already scheduled for that exact same week.

What gets squeezed in that collision is usually the quieter account's hours, not because anyone decides to deprioritize it, but because a launch burst is loud and visible and a retainer's steady work is easy to assume is fine. By the time someone checks, the SaaS client's monthly deliverables have slipped and nobody logged why.

ShipSprint gives each client its own board with its own WIP limits, so an account lead can see a launch-week studio account visibly filling up its capacity while a quieter retainer is still moving, before the quieter one falls behind unnoticed. Time logging that takes about five seconds, right next to the task, means both kinds of work get billed accurately, launch bursts and steady retainers alike.

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Launch bursts and steady retainers, one subscription

What a Vancouver agency actually needs

A board per client account

Per-column WIP limits keep a studio's launch-week account from swallowing the whole team's capacity while a quieter SaaS retainer keeps moving.

Time that gets logged, not guessed

Logging time takes about five seconds and sits right next to the task, so what a client actually cost in hours is a real number, not a reconstruction.

A triage inbox for new briefs

Incoming requests land in a shared inbox instead of one account manager's messages, so a launch-week ask doesn't bury a retainer client's monthly brief.

Campaign calendars and launch checklists

Marketing gets its own board vocabulary, campaigns and content calendars, whether the account runs on a launch date or a monthly cadence.

Not a CRM, and we won't pretend it is

ShipSprint tracks delivery and capacity, not pipeline or contacts. Client work lives here; the client relationship still lives wherever it already does.

Spread across a city where office space costs real money

Between high downtown lease rates and a workforce stretched out to Burnaby, the North Shore and further into the Fraser Valley, a Vancouver agency team is rarely all in one room on a given day. That's precisely the condition where status meetings creep in to compensate for not being able to see each other, eating time that should be billable.

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. A one-tap blocker flag pulls in whoever can actually unblock it, with context attached, and capacity accounts for approved leave. Support is based in India, most of a day removed from Pacific time, so forecasts and the weekly digest generate themselves rather than depending on a live call at an odd hour.

FAQ

Questions from Vancouver agencies

Yes. Each client gets its own board with its own WIP limits, so a studio's launch-week intensity and a SaaS client's steady monthly cadence don't have to run the same way. The owner command center still shows both side by side.

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