Project Management Software for Technology Startups in Birmingham
For Birmingham founders whose first few hires cover product, hiring and operations between them, on money that has to last. What ShipSprint costs at each stage, and what to check before buying from an Indian company.
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Software that has to justify itself against payroll
At the earliest stage, every subscription competes with salaries for the same money. Three people are covering product, support, hiring and the books, and a tool that assumes a dedicated operations manager or a marketing budget doesn't fit how the company actually works.
The common pricing pattern makes that harder. The board is cheap, then time tracking is an add-on, reporting sits a tier up, and the wiki is a separate product. By the time the team reaches ten people, the tooling bill has grown in four places at once.
ShipSprint starts at nothing. The Free plan covers the core boards for up to 5 users and 2 projects with no time limit, which is enough to run a first product cycle. When you need more, Team is one per-seat price that brings time tracking, GitHub sync, capacity planning and the manager dashboard together.
What a founding team gets, stage by stage
Free core boards with every project template, for up to 5 people and 2 projects.
On Team, GitHub branches move cards and merged pull requests close them, so nobody maintains the board by hand.
HR templates for candidate pipelines and onboarding checklists, on the same subscription as the sprint board.
The built-in wiki keeps the reasoning next to the work, with page history, and any sentence can become a task.
On Business, delivery forecasts from measured velocity, and an owner command center with a Monday digest.
Try the paid features before paying for them
A new workspace starts with 14 days of the full Business plan, a sample project and no card. That's time to connect a repository, log a week of hours and see whether forecasts tell you anything useful. If nobody upgrades, the workspace drops to Free and keeps everything you made.
Day to day, everyone opens to a "my day" screen rather than the full backlog: today's items, a one-tap time log on paid plans, and an "I'm blocked" button that pulls in the person who can help, with the context attached. In a company where the founder is in meetings half the day, that beats a message waiting in a chat channel.
On Team and up, capacity planning counts approved leave, which matters more than it sounds when one person's week off is a fifth of the company. Look at the UK bank holiday weekends, Easter and Christmas to New Year before you promise a pilot customer a date.
There are no screenshots, no keystroke logging and no activity tracking on any plan. Early hires are trusted with a lot, and the tool shouldn't suggest otherwise.
Using ShipSprint from Birmingham: what founders ask first
Who you're buying from. Quantuva Technologies Pvt. Ltd. makes ShipSprint and is based in Hyderabad, India. It has no office or local entity in the UK, and support is available by email and in-app chat.
Time zones. IST is 5 hours 30 minutes ahead of Birmingham in winter and 4 hours 30 minutes ahead in summer. Questions sent before lunch in the UK arrive during the Indian afternoon, and replies usually come the same working day, Indian time.
Billing. You're charged per seat in Indian rupees through Razorpay; your bank converts the charge into pounds. If you're VAT-registered, ask your accountant how to treat a service bought from abroad.
Data protection. Once candidate details or customer emails go into the workspace, the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 apply. Read the sub-processor list and the security overview and check them against your own obligations and any customer contract.
Questions from Birmingham startups
No. Free has no time limit, for up to 5 users and 2 projects on the core boards. Time tracking, GitHub and the manager dashboard start on Team.
No. Engineering, HR, marketing and operations templates are all on the same subscription. Use the ones you need now and add the rest later without changing tools.
When you need delivery forecasts, scorecards, the owner command center, the audit log, sign-in with Google or Microsoft, or more than 100 projects. It's ₹599 per user per month, or ₹6,499 per user per year. Details are on the pricing page.
Yes. A full JSON export of the workspace is available on every plan.
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