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Project Management for Account Managers

Not a CRM (no contact database, no deal pipeline). This is where the delivery work for an account already won gets tracked, so nothing surprises the client.

The bad version of "I'll check and get back to you"

The worst moment in an account relationship is finding out about a slip from the client instead of the other way around. It happens when delivery status lives in one system, client communication lives in another, and the account manager is the manual bridge between them, reconstructing an answer from a Slack thread and a guess every time someone asks "are we still on track?"

The fix isn't a better spreadsheet of client names. It's delivery work that's visible enough, and forecasts that are early enough, that the account manager knows about a risk before the client raises it, with time left to actually do something about it.

ShipSprint isn't trying to be where your client relationships live. It's where the delivery work for an account you've already won gets tracked, so the person managing that relationship has a real answer instead of a placeholder one.

That distinction is worth being precise about, because the two jobs get conflated a lot. Winning the account is a sales process. Delivering on it is a project. ShipSprint is built for the second one, and on ShipSprint the account manager's own account gets its own board from day one, no setup wrangling required.

What you get

Delivery visibility, built for client-facing work

Everything here is about the work being delivered for an account, not the sales relationship around it.

A triage inbox for incoming requests

Client requests land in a triage inbox rather than an account manager's personal messages, with per-column WIP limits so a busy account's requests don't silently pile up unseen.

An early warning before the client gets one

Forecasts are calculated from the team's measured velocity, so a slipping date surfaces weeks early. That's the difference between telling a client about a delay with options still on the table, and telling them after it's already happened.

Account history that isn't tribal knowledge

Wiki pages hold decisions and history for the account: why a scope call was made, what was agreed and when, with full page history, so it survives someone changing roles or going on leave.

Status without interrupting delivery

The owner command center gives a cross-account view of where every engagement stands, so an account manager doesn't have to interrupt the delivery team to build a status update.

One board per account, if that's how you split work

Boards can be organised however the delivery work is actually structured, per account, per engagement, whatever fits, with real capacity behind the plan rather than an optimistic promise.

Five-second logging for accurate delivery data

Time logging takes about five seconds and sits next to the task just finished, so the hours behind an account's delivery are close to real rather than reconstructed at month-end.

A "my day" view for the account team

Everyone working an account opens to today's items, a one-tap time log, and one tap to flag "I'm blocked," so the account manager isn't the only one who notices when something on the account has stalled.

Client-facing teams, one subscription

Delivery, support and account management can each run on their own template within the same subscription, so handing work between them doesn't mean switching tools or losing the account's history in the process.

The call that goes differently

Three weeks before a delivery date, the forecast shows the team's measured pace slipping behind what the plan assumed. On a lot of setups, nobody notices until the date itself is close, and the account manager finds out from an anxious delivery lead the same day the client is expecting an update.

With the forecast visible weeks earlier, the conversation looks different. There's still time to talk to the client about trimming scope, moving the date, or bringing in help, options that don't exist once the deadline is a day away. The wiki page for the account already has the history of what was agreed and why, so the account manager isn't reconstructing context from old emails before making that call.

None of this requires the account manager to interrupt delivery to get a status update. The command center already has it.

The client call itself doesn't get easier because ShipSprint runs it, that's still a human conversation. What changes is having three weeks' notice instead of none, and a written record of what was agreed the last time a similar call happened. Account managers who run their accounts this way tend to describe it the same way: fewer surprises, not fewer problems.

What it costs

The triage inbox and wiki are available on every plan. Forecasts and the owner command center, which matter most once you're juggling several accounts, come with Business.

PlanPriceFits
Free₹0, 5 users, 2 projectsOne account's delivery board, to see how the workflow fits
Team₹299/user/month, ₹2,899/user/yearMultiple accounts, up to 40 users, each on its own board
Business₹599/user/month, ₹6,499/user/yearEarly-warning forecasts and a cross-account command center view

Every paid plan opens with a 14-day full-access trial on Business, sample project preloaded, no card required.

What ShipSprint is not

Said plainly: ShipSprint is not a CRM. There is no contact database, no deal pipeline, and no sales-stage tracking. It doesn't manage the relationship before a deal closes, and it isn't where you'd log a sales call or a proposal.

  • What it tracks: the delivery work for an account you've already won, tasks, timelines, hours, decisions
  • What it doesn't track: contacts, deals, pipeline stage, or anything upstream of a signed engagement
  • Where the two might meet: an account's delivery history in the wiki is useful context for a renewal conversation, even though the renewal itself happens elsewhere

If you're evaluating this alongside CRM options, it isn't really a competitor to any of them. It's a different layer entirely. Most account teams that use ShipSprint still keep a CRM for contacts and pipeline; ShipSprint just means the delivery side of that relationship isn't tracked in the same tool as the sales side, which for delivery specifically tends to work better.

FAQ

Common questions

No. There's no contact database, no deal pipeline, and no sales-stage tracking. ShipSprint tracks the delivery work for an account you've already won, tasks, timelines, and decisions, not the sales relationship.

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