Project Management Software for Marketing Agencies in Oxford
For Oxford agencies whose work spends as long waiting for sign-off as it does being made. How ShipSprint keeps approval rounds, brand notes and billable hours straight across clients, and what to check before buying from India.
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Most of the delay is in the approvals
A piece of agency work rarely moves in a straight line. A draft goes to the client, comes back with comments from two people who disagree, goes to legal or a board member, and returns a week later with a request to go back to version two. Meanwhile the team has started something else, and nobody is quite sure which version is live.
The cost isn't only time. Each round of amends uses hours that may or may not be in the fee, and if the rounds aren't visible, the account lead can't point to them when the client asks why the job overran.
In ShipSprint, approval stages can be columns on the client's board: drafting, with client, amends, final sign-off. A card's position is its status, so “where is the brochure?” has an answer without a chasing email, and a WIP limit on the “with client” column shows when too much work is stuck waiting on other people.
Four things that save a chasing email
A wiki page per client for tone of voice, approved phrases and past decisions, with page history to show what changed and when.
Paste the client's comments into a wiki page and turn each actionable sentence into a card, so nothing in a long email is missed.
New requests go to the triage inbox, are sorted into the right client board and scoped before the studio starts.
On Team and up, a five-second time log on each card shows how much each amends round actually cost.
Who has room this week
On Team and Business, the manager dashboard shows each person's load across clients, and capacity planning counts approved leave and out-of-office. In England, the bank holiday weekends, Easter, and Christmas to New Year all thin out the studio; seasonal campaigns that land near them should be planned against the people who will be in.
On Business, scorecards show each person's delivered work and logged hours, adjusted for leave and visible to the person they describe. There are no screenshots, keystroke logs or activity tracking, which matters when the team is partly freelance and partly staff.
ShipSprint isn't a CRM and doesn't manage contacts or pipeline. It starts when the client has signed, and handles delivery from there.
Before an Oxford agency signs up
Who you're buying from. ShipSprint is developed by Quantuva Technologies Pvt. Ltd. in Hyderabad, India. We have no office or local entity in the UK; support is by email and in-app chat.
Time zones. IST is 5 hours 30 minutes ahead of Oxford in winter and 4 hours 30 minutes ahead in summer. Send questions in your morning, when our afternoon overlaps; replies usually come the same working day, Indian time.
Billing. Each seat is charged in Indian rupees through Razorpay, and your bank converts it to sterling. For how VAT works on a service from a supplier abroad, speak to your accountant.
Data protection. Campaign audiences and client contacts are personal data under the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. Before uploading any, read the sub-processor list and the security overview and check them against your obligations and each client's data terms.
Questions from Oxford agencies
Yes. Each client's board has its own columns, so a client with three sign-off stages and one with a single approver can work differently on the same subscription.
Anyone you add is a seat at the usual per-user price and sees only what you share with them. Many agencies prefer to keep clients outside and paste feedback in; try both during the trial.
No. The company is based in Hyderabad, India, and has no UK presence.
Team, at ₹299 per user per month or ₹2,899 per user per year. Free covers core boards for up to 5 users and 2 projects but not time tracking.
A paid charge is refunded in full if you ask within 7 days, and the workspace can be exported as JSON on any plan. Details are on the pricing page.
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