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Project Management Software for Marketing Agencies in Mumbai

Mumbai's agencies run client retainers out of the same BKC and Andheri towers as the finance and media houses they pitch to. ShipSprint logs the hours that actually pay for the view.

The agency's floor, one up from the client's own

Mumbai is India's financial capital and one of its biggest media and advertising hubs at once, and a lot of the city's agencies sit closer to their clients than the org chart would suggest, three floors up in the same Andheri or BKC building from the fintech launching a rebrand or the broadcaster running a seasonal campaign. Whichever agency wins that pitch inherits the client's pace rather than its own, and Mumbai's pace rarely slows down for a status update.

What that costs an agency rarely shows up on the day it happens. A creative director spends forty minutes on a same-day client swap and never logs it because the next brief's already in. An account lead running four retainers at once loses track of which client actually ate this week's studio time. None of it's visible on a call, it only shows up on the P&L, weeks later, as margin that was never really there to begin with.

ShipSprint's triage inbox gives every incoming client ask, a forwarded WhatsApp brief, a Slack ping, a "need this by tomorrow" call, somewhere to land besides one account manager's memory. Logging the hour against it takes about five seconds and sits right next to the task that was just closed, so the habit survives a client's busiest week instead of being the first thing dropped when everyone's already stretched.

₹599per user per month on Business, billed in rupees
GSTcompliant invoices, annual billing available
~5 secto log an hour against the client it belongs to
5users free, forever, on the Free plan
Built for an agency's week

What actually changes on a retainer-heavy board

None of this asks a creative or account team to adopt sprint vocabulary that was never built for client work.

Billable time, logged where the work happens

The log sits beside the task just finished, not a separate timesheet app opened once a week under deadline. Hours roll up by client and project automatically, so a retainer's real cost is a number, not a guess pieced together before the invoice goes out.

Per-client capacity, not just a to-do list

Per-column WIP limits stop a creative team from quietly taking on a sixth client's rush job on top of five it's already committed to this week. Capacity reflects what the studio can actually deliver, not what a pitch deck promised the client two months ago.

A triage inbox for every incoming ask

A client request lands in a shared inbox rather than one account manager's personal messages, so a scope change from a fund, a broadcaster, or a brand doesn't quietly become that person's problem to remember at midnight.

A campaign calendar in an agency's own language

Marketing gets its own templates and vocabulary, campaigns, content calendars and launch checklists, not a sprint board relabeled to pretend it was built for client-facing work.

Honest about what it isn't

ShipSprint doesn't pretend to be a CRM and won't track pipeline or client contracts. It's a home for the delivery work and the hours behind it, usually the half of an agency's operation that has no proper home at all.

Visibility for the owner, not surveillance for the studio

Running six accounts out of a BKC office doesn't mean an owner has time to pull four account leads into a call just to find out how the week's actually going. The owner command center answers that on its own, one screen covering every account and every team, and the Monday digest arrives already assembled instead of getting stitched together from five separate updates typed out late on a Sunday.

None of it comes from watching anyone's screen. There's no screenshotting, no keystroke logging and no activity tracking built into the product anywhere, and that isn't a policy someone could quietly walk back later. Every scorecard is leave-adjusted and stays visible to the person it describes, not held in reserve for a review. That's worth more than it sounds in agency culture, where knowing who's genuinely stretched thin is usually a guess, and the guess tends to reward whoever complains loudest rather than whoever's actually buried.

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Questions from Mumbai agencies

Yes. Billing runs in rupees with GST-compliant invoices, and annual billing is available. Prices exclude applicable taxes.

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