Project Management for Finance Managers
Not an accounting tool, a project system that happens to know what a project cost, because the hours were logged where the work happened.
Cost data that comes from the work, not a reconstruction afterwards
A finance manager asking "what did this project actually cost us" usually gets an estimate assembled after the fact, someone pulls a spreadsheet, cross-references a few timesheets that were filled in a week late, and rounds to the nearest sensible number. It's not wrong exactly, it's just reconstructed, which means it's late and it's soft.
The reason timesheets are late is that they're a separate chore, done from memory on a Friday. If logging hours happens somewhere else entirely from the work, the numbers arrive after the fact and slightly wrong.
ShipSprint keeps hours logged next to the task, as the task is finished, so cost-per-project and cost-per-team figures are built from data that was current when it was entered, not a Friday-afternoon guess about what last Tuesday looked like.
To be clear about what this is and isn't: ShipSprint is project management software with honest cost visibility built in, not an accounting platform. It won't do your books. What it does is make sure the hours behind a project's cost were captured accurately in the first place, which is the part most cost reviews quietly get wrong.
Cost visibility, not a finance product
This is a project system with honest numbers underneath it, not accounting software wearing a project skin.
Because time logging happens at the task, cost-per-project rolls up from real entries rather than a monthly reconciliation exercise someone does under time pressure.
The same logged hours roll up by team, so you can see where budget is actually going without asking each manager to submit their own summary in their own format.
Delivery forecasts come from a team's measured velocity, and a slipping date usually means slipping cost too, so the same forecast that flags a schedule risk weeks early is also your earliest signal on budget risk.
Logging takes about five seconds and sits next to the task just finished. A missing day gets a reminder sent to the person, not their manager, so the gaps in your cost data get closed without you having to chase them.
ShipSprint's own subscription is billed per seat in rupees, with GST-compliant invoices issued automatically each billing cycle. Annual billing is available if that suits how your books close.
The owner command center answers "where are we?" across every team on the account, useful when a budget conversation needs a company-wide picture rather than one project at a time.
Cost figures aren't a separate reporting layer someone maintains by hand, they come from the same logged hours and boards the delivery team relies on day to day, so the version finance sees and the version delivery sees don't quietly diverge.
Engineering, HR, marketing and operations all run on the same per-seat pricing, so a cost review of the whole company doesn't mean reconciling five different vendor invoices in different currencies.
What a monthly cost review actually looks like
Say three project teams share a quarter's budget. At month-end, instead of emailing each project lead for their own estimate of hours spent, three different formats, three different levels of rigour, the cost-per-project view pulls from hours already logged against tasks all month. It's not a perfect number; nobody's is. But it's built from the same entries the teams used to plan their own sprints, so there's no separate reconciliation step where the finance version and the delivery version of reality disagree.
When one of those three projects is running over, the forecast usually said so weeks earlier, a widening gap between planned and measured velocity, visible on the board before the month-end numbers would have shown it. That's the useful part: budget conversations happening while there's still room to adjust scope, not after the invoice is already committed.
Add the owner command center on top and the same review can zoom out to every team on the account at once, rather than three separate conversations that never quite add up to the whole picture. Finance managers who run their monthly close this way say the review itself gets shorter, because the argument over whose number is right mostly stops happening.
What it costs
Cost-per-project and cost-per-team visibility come from logged hours on any plan; forecasts, which give the earliest read on budget risk, are part of Business.
| Plan | Price | Fits |
|---|---|---|
| Free | ₹0, 5 users, 2 projects | Testing cost-per-project on a small team before rolling it out wider |
| Team | ₹299/user/month, ₹2,899/user/year | Cost visibility across up to 40 users and every active project |
| Business | ₹599/user/month, ₹6,499/user/year | Forecasts as budget-risk early warning, plus the owner command center |
Every paid plan opens with a 14-day full-access trial on Business, sample project preloaded, no card required. ShipSprint's own subscription invoices are GST-compliant and issued automatically each cycle, that's the extent of the invoicing it does.
What ShipSprint is not
Worth being direct about this. ShipSprint is not an accounting system and does not invoice your customers on your behalf, the GST-compliant invoicing above is for ShipSprint's own subscription, from Quantuva Technologies Pvt. Ltd., not a general billing engine for your business. It won't replace your books, your GST filing, or your accounting software.
- What it gives you: logged hours that roll up into cost-per-project and cost-per-team, without a separate timesheet tool
- What it gives you: an early flag on budget risk, derived from the same forecast that flags schedule risk
- What it doesn't do: invoice your clients, manage your general ledger, or file anything with a tax authority
- What it doesn't do: replace the accounting software you already run your business on
- Where it's genuinely useful to finance: as the source of accurate labour-hour data, which is usually the weakest input into any cost model, feeding into whatever accounting system already does the rest
Treat ShipSprint as the place labour-hour data gets captured accurately at the source, and let your existing accounting software do what it's built for downstream. The two aren't in competition; one feeds the other.
Common questions
No. ShipSprint is project management software. It issues GST-compliant invoices automatically for its own subscription billing, but it does not invoice your customers or replace an accounting system. What it gives finance is cost visibility built from logged hours, not a billing engine.
From hours logged against tasks as work happens. Because logging takes about five seconds and sits next to the task, teams actually do it, which means the cost rollup is built from real entries rather than an end-of-month reconstruction.
Forecasts are calculated from a team's measured velocity and flag a date at risk weeks before it's due. A slipping date is frequently the first sign of slipping cost too, so treat the same forecast as an early read on both.
Per seat, in rupees, with GST-compliant invoices issued automatically each billing cycle. Annual billing is available. Full plan pricing is on the pricing page.
No. There are no screenshots, no keystroke logging and no activity tracking. Logged hours are entered by the person doing the work, next to that work, not inferred from their screen. See the security overview for how that data is handled.
Yes. The same logged hours that roll up per project also roll up per team, so you can look at spend either way depending on whether the question is "what did this client cost us" or "where is this department's time going."
The whole workspace, including logged hours, exports as JSON at any time, which you can bring into whatever accounting or reporting process already runs your books. ShipSprint doesn't replace that system, it makes sure the labour-hour data going into it is accurate to begin with.
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