Project Management Software for Marketing Agencies in Manchester
For Manchester agencies juggling deadline-driven campaign work and steady monthly retainers with the same people. How ShipSprint shows where each client's hours go, and what to know before buying from an Indian company.
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The retainer that quietly runs over
Agency work comes in two shapes. Campaign and production jobs arrive with a hard date and burn hours in a rush. Retainers tick along in small pieces: a few social posts, a newsletter, a round of amends. The rush gets everyone's attention, and the retainer is where time goes unrecorded, because no single task ever feels big enough to log.
By the end of the quarter, the retainer that looked profitable has been absorbing a day a week nobody billed for, and the account lead finds out when someone compares the timesheets to the fee.
ShipSprint puts each client on its own board, so campaign work and retainer work stay separate even when the same designer touches both in a morning. On Team and up, logging time takes about five seconds, right beside the task just finished, which is quick enough that the small jobs get recorded too.
How an agency week runs on it
The marketing templates use campaign and content language, not sprint jargon.
A client's request lands in the triage inbox rather than one account manager's email, and is sorted into the right client board from there.
Per-column WIP limits on the design and copy columns show when the studio is full before another job gets squeezed in.
Each client's tone of voice, logins checklist and past decisions live in the wiki with page history. When meeting notes create work, the issue key typed on the notes links them.
Recurring posts, newsletters and launch checklists tracked like any other card, with the hours sitting against the client they belong to.
Seeing the studio's capacity before you say yes
The hardest call in a small agency is whether to take the extra job. On Team and up, the manager dashboard shows who has room, and capacity planning counts the leave and holidays people mark as out-of-office. In the UK, ask them to enter the bank holiday weekends, Easter, and Christmas to New Year, which is also when clients tend to want their seasonal campaigns signed off, so plan those weeks against the people who will actually be in.
On Business, scorecards show delivered work and logged hours per person, adjusted for time off. They're visible to the person they describe, and there are no screenshots, no keystroke logging and no activity tracking behind them.
ShipSprint doesn't manage contacts or a sales pipeline. It starts once a client has said yes, and covers the delivery, the hours and the capacity from there.
Buying ShipSprint from Manchester: four things to know
Who you're buying from. The supplier is Quantuva Technologies Pvt. Ltd. of Hyderabad, India. We have no office or local entity in Britain, and we support customers by email and in-app help.
Time zones. IST is 5 hours 30 minutes ahead of Manchester in winter and 4 hours 30 minutes ahead in summer. Raise anything urgent early in your day: answers usually arrive the same working day, Indian time, which for a morning question is normally before you leave the office.
Billing. Plans are charged per seat in Indian rupees via Razorpay, and your bank handles the conversion to sterling. VAT on services from overseas suppliers is a question for your accountant.
Data protection. Client contact lists and campaign audiences can contain personal data covered by the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. Look at the sub-processor list and the security overview, and compare them with your obligations and what your client contracts allow, before uploading any.
Questions from Manchester agencies
Yes, on Team and Business. Every logged hour sits on a task inside a client's project, so timesheets already show which client the time went to.
Yes. Any person you add is a seat at the same per-user price, and they work with the same permissions you give them.
No. ShipSprint has no contact or pipeline management. It handles the work once a client is signed.
No. The company is in Hyderabad, India, and works with UK agencies remotely.
Nothing for core boards on Free, which allows up to 5 users and 2 projects. To log time against clients you need Team, at ₹299 per user per month. Business, at ₹599 or ₹6,499 per user per year, adds scorecards, forecasts and the owner command center. Every paid plan starts with a 14-day full-access trial on Business, no card. See the pricing page.
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