AgencyPro: The SPP.co Alternative Built for Agencies
SPP.co is a productized service platform with rigid workflows that cannot support custom agency project delivery. AgencyPro replaces SPP and the stack of tools you bolt onto it — client portals, invoicing, retainer tracking, time tracking, CRM — in a single platform built specifically for agencies.
Across every agency vertical we work with, the same SPP pain points keep coming up. These are the top five reasons agencies move to AgencyPro:
SPP's order-based system forces every engagement into a fixed-price package — it cannot handle the monthly retainers, hourly billing, or milestone-based invoicing that most marketing agencies depend on
No built-in project management means multi-channel campaigns spanning SEO, PPC, content, and email have to be tracked in external tools like Trello or Asana, disconnected from billing
SPP has zero time tracking capability, making it impossible to monitor how many hours your team spends per client or whether retainer hours are being over- or under-utilized
No team workload visibility or capacity planning — you cannot see which marketers are overbooked and which have bandwidth because SPP was designed for order fulfillment, not team operations
SPP's order form model reduces design work to transactional fulfillment — there's no room for discovery, strategy, or the iterative creative process that complex design projects require
AgencyPro vs SPP.co: Quick Feature Comparison
Here's a side-by-side of the 15 most decision-relevant features for agencies evaluating AgencyPro against SPP.co.
Feature
AgencyPro
SPP.co
Built specifically for agencies
Yes — purpose-built for agency workflows
No — SPP is a general-purpose tool
Native client portal with custom branding
Yes — included on all plans
No or limited — requires add-on or 3rd-party tool
Built-in invoicing & payments
Yes — invoices, retainers, Stripe payments
Not included — requires QuickBooks/FreshBooks alongside SPP
Retainer hour tracking
Native — real-time utilization dashboards
Not supported — requires spreadsheets or Harvest
Native time tracking
Yes — connected to projects, tasks & billing
Limited or via paid integration
CRM & sales pipeline
Included — leads, deals, proposal-to-project
Not included — separate HubSpot/Pipedrive seat
Proposals & e-signatures
Included — proposal templates with sign-off
Not in SPP — requires PandaDoc/Proposify
Client deliverable approvals
Structured approval workflows with audit trail
Email-based or unstructured comments
Project profitability reporting
Real-time margin per project & client
Task velocity metrics, not financial
Capacity & resource planning
Included — team utilization across clients
Premium-tier or missing in SPP
Recurring/retainer billing
Automated monthly invoices with utilization
Manual — done in accounting software
Custom branding for client portal
Logo, colors, custom domain included
Not available or top-tier only
Per-client workspaces
Yes — isolated, branded per client
Generic workspaces, not client-isolated
Pricing model
Flat plan — unlimited clients & contractors
Per-seat — costs balloon as team grows
All-in-one (replaces 4-5 SaaS tools)
Yes — PM + portal + billing + CRM + time
Single-purpose — requires a stack to operate
Why Agencies Switch From SPP.co to AgencyPro
Retainer & Flexible Billing Models
Most marketing agencies work on monthly retainers, not fixed-price orders. AgencyPro supports retainer agreements with automated hour tracking, utilization monitoring, and overage alerts. You can also bill hourly, by milestone, or per project — billing models SPP.co fundamentally cannot support because its entire architecture revolves around fixed-price order forms.
Integrated Campaign Project Management
Marketing campaigns involve parallel workstreams — SEO, content production, paid media, email sequences — with dependencies and shared deadlines. AgencyPro provides native multi-phase project management with task dependencies and milestone tracking. SPP has no project management at all; it relies on integrations with Trello or Asana, which means your billing and project data live in separate, disconnected systems.
Team Resource Planning
When your team of account managers, strategists, and channel specialists is juggling multiple client campaigns, you need to see who has capacity and who is overloaded. AgencyPro's resource planning shows real-time utilization across your team. SPP has no concept of internal team management — it tracks orders, not the people fulfilling them.
Campaign Performance Analytics
SPP's reporting is limited to order volume and revenue from package sales. AgencyPro provides profitability per client, per campaign, and per team member. You can see retainer health scores, team utilization rates, revenue forecasts, and margin analysis — the operational intelligence marketing agencies need to make pricing, hiring, and growth decisions.
Creative Project Workflows
Design projects move through discovery, concepting, design development, revisions, and final delivery. AgencyPro supports multi-phase projects with task dependencies, approval gates between phases, and milestone tracking. SPP's order-in, deliverable-out workflow has no understanding of the iterative creative process — it treats a six-month brand identity project the same as a one-off icon request.
SPP.co Alternative by Agency Type
SPP struggles differ by agency type. Jump to your industry below to see the specific SPP limitations agencies in your vertical run into and how AgencyPro solves them.
For Marketing Agencies
SPP.co was built for agencies selling productized service packages — a fixed-price "SEO Audit" or a "Social Media Starter Pack" that clients order like items from a menu. That works until your marketing agency starts running ongoing retainer campaigns, managing multi-channel strategies across a team, or billing clients based on hours and deliverables rather than pre-set packages. SPP's rigid order-based workflow has no time tracking, no team workload management, and no project management beyond what you can bolt on through Trello or Asana integrations. AgencyPro is built for the way marketing agencies actually operate — with retainer management, campaign coordination, and team-level operational intelligence.
Where SPP Falls Short
SPP's order-based system forces every engagement into a fixed-price package — it cannot handle the monthly retainers, hourly billing, or milestone-based invoicing that most marketing agencies depend on
No built-in project management means multi-channel campaigns spanning SEO, PPC, content, and email have to be tracked in external tools like Trello or Asana, disconnected from billing
SPP has zero time tracking capability, making it impossible to monitor how many hours your team spends per client or whether retainer hours are being over- or under-utilized
How AgencyPro Solves It
Retainer & Flexible Billing Models
Most marketing agencies work on monthly retainers, not fixed-price orders. AgencyPro supports retainer agreements with automated hour tracking, utilization monitoring, and overage alerts. You can also bill hourly, by milestone, or per project — billing models SPP.co fundamentally cannot support because its entire architecture revolves around fixed-price order forms.
Integrated Campaign Project Management
Marketing campaigns involve parallel workstreams — SEO, content production, paid media, email sequences — with dependencies and shared deadlines. AgencyPro provides native multi-phase project management with task dependencies and milestone tracking. SPP has no project management at all; it relies on integrations with Trello or Asana, which means your billing and project data live in separate, disconnected systems.
Key Features for Marketing Teams
Retainer Management.Automated retainer tracking with hour utilization dashboards, monthly rollover rules, overservice alerts, and one-click retainer invoicing.
Multi-Channel Campaign Management.Structure campaigns with parallel workstreams for SEO, PPC, content, and email with task dependencies and milestone tracking.
Native Time Tracking.Built-in timers, manual entries, and timesheet approvals tied directly to projects, clients, retainers, and invoices.
SPP.co turns your design agency into a vending machine — clients pick a package, submit an order form, and wait for delivery. That model might work for simple logo tweaks or social media templates, but it breaks down the moment you take on branding projects, website redesigns, or creative campaigns that involve discovery phases, multiple revision rounds, and collaborative team workflows. SPP has no creative proofing, no revision tracking against scope, no team coordination, and no way to manage the iterative, relationship-driven process that quality design work demands. AgencyPro gives design agencies the creative project management and client collaboration tools they actually need.
Where SPP Falls Short
SPP's order form model reduces design work to transactional fulfillment — there's no room for discovery, strategy, or the iterative creative process that complex design projects require
No creative proofing or revision tracking system, so design agencies have no way to manage feedback rounds, enforce revision limits, or track approval status within SPP
SPP has no internal project management — design tasks, dependencies, and team assignments must be managed in external tools completely disconnected from client billing
How AgencyPro Solves It
Creative Project Workflows
Design projects move through discovery, concepting, design development, revisions, and final delivery. AgencyPro supports multi-phase projects with task dependencies, approval gates between phases, and milestone tracking. SPP's order-in, deliverable-out workflow has no understanding of the iterative creative process — it treats a six-month brand identity project the same as a one-off icon request.
Built-In Proofing & Revision Management
Design agencies live in the feedback loop. AgencyPro lets you share deliverables through a client portal where clients leave contextual feedback, formally approve work, or request revisions. Revision rounds are tracked against contract limits, automatically triggering additional billing when scope is exceeded. SPP offers nothing for this critical design workflow.
Key Features for Design Teams
Client Proofing Portal.Share design deliverables for structured visual review with contextual feedback, revision requests, and formal approval tracking.
Revision Scope Control.Track revision rounds per deliverable against contract limits and automatically trigger additional billing for extra rounds.
Creative Team Workflows.Assign tasks across designers with workload balancing, deadline management, and phased project timelines.
SPP.co lets you sell SEO packages — "10 Blog Posts," "Technical Audit," "Link Building Starter" — through an order portal. But most SEO agencies operate on monthly retainers with recurring deliverables, not one-off package orders. SPP has no time tracking to monitor retainer hours, no recurring task automation for monthly deliverable cycles, and no team management for distributing work across SEO specialists. Its order-based model fundamentally misaligns with how retainer-driven SEO agencies work. AgencyPro provides the retainer management, recurring workflows, and team operations SEO agencies need to scale.
Where SPP Falls Short
SPP's fixed-price order model doesn't fit monthly SEO retainers — there's no way to track hours against a retainer allocation or automate monthly billing reconciliation
No recurring task automation means SEO agencies cannot auto-generate monthly deliverable checklists for technical audits, content production, link building, and reporting
SPP has no time tracking whatsoever, making it impossible to know how many hours your team actually spends per SEO client or whether retainers are profitable
How AgencyPro Solves It
Retainer-First Operations
SEO agencies live on monthly retainers, not one-off orders. AgencyPro is built around retainer management — automated hour tracking, utilization dashboards, overservice alerts, and monthly invoicing tied to actual work delivered. SPP.co's entire model is built around fixed-price orders, which means every retainer billing cycle requires manual workarounds and provides zero utilization visibility.
Recurring SEO Workflow Automation
Every month brings the same cycle: technical audits, content production, link outreach, and reporting. AgencyPro auto-generates recurring task sets for each client on a configurable cadence, pre-assigned to the right team members with appropriate deadlines. SPP treats each "order" as a discrete event — it has no concept of ongoing, repeating work cycles.
Key Features for SEO Teams
Retainer Dashboards.Real-time retainer utilization, effective hourly rates, overservice tracking, and monthly rollover management per client.
Recurring Task Automation.Auto-generate monthly SEO deliverable checklists and audit schedules for every client on a configurable cadence.
Native Time Tracking.Timers, manual entries, and timesheet approvals connected to retainer budgets, project tracking, and automated invoicing.
Web development projects are complex, multi-phase engagements with shifting requirements, technical dependencies, and cross-functional teams. SPP.co was designed for selling fixed-price service packages through order forms — it has absolutely no project management capability for structuring a discovery-to-launch development timeline. There is no task dependency management, no scope change tracking, no milestone billing, and no team coordination. You are expected to bolt on Trello or Asana for project work, leaving your billing and project systems completely disconnected. AgencyPro provides the integrated project management, scope control, and team operations that web development agencies require.
Where SPP Falls Short
SPP has zero native project management — web development phases like discovery, design, development, QA, and launch cannot be structured with dependencies, milestones, or approval gates
No scope change tracking means when clients request additional features mid-project, there's no formal process for documenting, pricing, and approving change orders within SPP
SPP cannot handle milestone-based billing because its order system only supports fixed-price upfront payments — you can't invoice at design approval, beta, or launch
How AgencyPro Solves It
Phased Development Project Management
Web projects follow defined phases — discovery, wireframing, design, development, QA, launch. AgencyPro supports multi-phase project structures with task dependencies, phase gates, and milestone tracking natively. SPP has no project management whatsoever; it relies on third-party integrations that can't tie project progress to billing, budgets, or client communication.
Scope Change Control
Feature creep is the number one margin killer in web development. AgencyPro provides formal change request workflows where new scope is documented, priced, approved by the client through their portal, and integrated into the project plan and budget. SPP has no mechanism for this — scope changes happen outside the system entirely.
Key Features for Web Dev Teams
Phased Project Plans.Structure projects into discovery, design, development, QA, and launch phases with dependencies and milestone gates.
Change Request Workflows.Document, price, and get client approval on scope changes with automatic project plan and budget updates.
Team Task Assignment.Assign work across developers, designers, and QA with workload visibility and capacity planning.
Creative agencies orchestrate complex projects that span strategy, copywriting, design, photography, video, and production — often with a blend of in-house talent and freelance specialists working across overlapping engagements. SPP.co's productized order system treats all of this like a fast-food counter: clients order a package, it enters a queue, and someone delivers it. There is no creative workflow management, no resource allocation across projects, no review and approval process, and no way to coordinate multi-discipline teams. AgencyPro provides the production management, creative collaboration, and resource planning that growing creative agencies need.
Where SPP Falls Short
SPP's order queue model cannot represent multi-phase creative production — there are no phases, dependencies, handoffs, or approval gates for campaigns that move from strategy to execution
No resource allocation across projects means creative directors can't see which designers, writers, or producers are available when staffing new engagements
SPP lacks any review or approval workflow — creative presentations, concept reviews, and revision cycles all have to happen outside the system
How AgencyPro Solves It
Multi-Discipline Production Management
Creative projects involve strategy, copy, design, photography, video, and production working in sequence and in parallel. AgencyPro structures projects with discipline-specific phases, handoff points, and parallel workstreams. SPP sees a single "order" with no understanding of the complex production pipeline behind the deliverable.
Cross-Project Resource Allocation
Your senior designer is on three campaigns, your copywriter just wrapped one, and you're pitching a new engagement. AgencyPro's resource planning shows team capacity across all active projects in real time, letting you staff intelligently. SPP has no resource management because it doesn't track your team — just orders.
Key Features for Creative Teams
Production Workflows.Multi-phase creative production with discipline-specific stages, handoff points, and dependency management.
Resource Allocation.Cross-project team capacity planning with visual workload views for creative directors and project managers.
Approval Gates.Structured internal and client review stages with formal approval or revision requests at each phase.
Consulting agencies sell expertise and time — utilization rates, engagement profitability, and deliverable management are existential concerns. SPP.co's productized service model is the opposite of how consulting works. It lets you sell fixed-price packages through an order portal, but consulting engagements involve multi-phase assessments, strategic deliverables, ongoing advisory retainers, and teams of consultants staffed based on expertise and availability. SPP has no time tracking, no utilization metrics, no engagement management, and no team staffing visibility. AgencyPro provides the engagement-centric operations, utilization analytics, and profitability intelligence consulting firms need.
Where SPP Falls Short
SPP has zero time tracking — the most critical input for consulting firm profitability (utilization rates, billable hours, effective rates) is completely unmeasurable
Consulting engagements with multiple phases, workstreams, and deliverables cannot be structured in SPP's flat order-based system designed for productized packages
No team staffing or allocation visibility means consultants cannot be efficiently assigned to engagements based on expertise, availability, or billable targets
How AgencyPro Solves It
Engagement-Centric Project Management
Consulting engagements have phases — assessment, strategy development, implementation support, review. Each phase involves defined deliverables, client checkpoints, and potentially different team members. AgencyPro models this with phased projects, deliverable tracking, and milestone management. SPP treats everything as a package order, which is fundamentally incompatible with how consulting engagements are structured and delivered.
Utilization & Capacity Analytics
Consulting firms live and die by utilization rates. AgencyPro tracks billable versus non-billable hours per consultant, calculates utilization rates in real time, and provides capacity planning for staffing decisions. SPP has no time tracking at all — the most fundamental metric for consulting profitability simply does not exist in the platform.
Key Features for Consulting Teams
Engagement Management.Phased consulting engagements with workstreams, deliverable milestones, and advisory retainer tracking in structured projects.
Utilization Dashboards.Real-time billable vs non-billable tracking per consultant with utilization rate calculations and trend analysis.
Staffing & Allocation.Cross-engagement consultant allocation views for intelligent staffing decisions on new and existing business.
PR agencies manage ongoing client retainers with a continuous stream of media outreach, press releases, event coordination, and crisis communications. SPP.co's fixed-price package model treats PR like a product you order once — but PR is an always-on, relationship-driven service that defies productization. SPP has no retainer management, no recurring task automation, no account team coordination, and no way for clients to see ongoing PR activities. When your work is continuous and your billing is monthly, an order-based platform is the wrong foundation. AgencyPro provides the retainer operations, team management, and client transparency that PR agencies need.
Where SPP Falls Short
SPP's order model cannot represent ongoing PR retainers — each month's work would need to be a new "order," creating a fragmented, transactional record of what should be a continuous relationship
No recurring task automation means monthly media outreach plans, press release schedules, and reporting deliverables must be created from scratch each cycle outside of SPP
SPP has no team management, so coordinating an account manager, media relations specialist, and content writer on a single client is entirely unstructured
How AgencyPro Solves It
PR Retainer Operations
PR retainers involve monthly deliverable cycles — media lists, pitch outreach, press releases, coverage reports. AgencyPro automates these recurring workflows so your team focuses on relationships, not recreating task lists. Track deliverable completion against retainer scope to demonstrate value at every monthly review — operational capabilities SPP's order-based system was never designed to support.
Account Team Coordination
PR clients are managed by account teams — an account manager for client communication, a media specialist for outreach, a content creator for press materials. AgencyPro lets you build and manage account teams with role assignments, shared visibility, and collaborative workflows. SPP has no concept of teams, roles, or collaborative work coordination.
Key Features for PR Teams
Recurring PR Workflows.Automated monthly deliverable generation for media outreach, press release schedules, coverage monitoring, and reporting cycles.
Account Team Management.Build client account teams with defined roles, shared visibility, and collaborative task management across team members.
Campaign Timeline Management.Structured campaign plans with milestones, dependencies, and deadline tracking for product launches, events, and PR pushes.
Video production agencies manage multi-phase projects that move from concept through scripting, pre-production, shooting, editing, and delivery. Each phase involves different crew members, equipment considerations, and client approval checkpoints. SPP.co's order portal was designed for selling fixed-price service packages — it has no production phase management, no crew coordination, no structured client review workflow, and no budget tracking for the complex cost structures that video projects involve. You cannot model a production timeline in an order queue. AgencyPro gives video production agencies structured production management from concept to final delivery.
Where SPP Falls Short
SPP has no project phasing — the distinct stages of video production (pre-production, production, post-production) cannot be structured with sequencing, dependencies, or approval gates
No crew or team management means coordinating directors, editors, motion designers, and sound engineers on the same project happens entirely outside SPP
Client approvals on scripts, rough cuts, and final edits have no structured workflow in SPP — review cycles require external email chains or separate tools
How AgencyPro Solves It
Production Phase Management
Video projects move through well-defined phases: concept, scripting, pre-production, shooting, editing, color grading, sound design, and delivery. AgencyPro structures projects around these phases with gates between them, ensuring scripts are approved before pre-production and rough cuts are signed off before final post. SPP has no phasing capability — a six-week production and a thirty-minute graphic design order are treated identically.
Crew & Specialist Coordination
A video project might involve a director, DP, editor, motion designer, colorist, and sound mixer — some in-house, some freelance. AgencyPro manages this hybrid team with role-based task assignment, phase-specific scheduling, and individual rate tracking. SPP doesn't know your crew exists; it only sees an order entering and a deliverable exiting.
Key Features for Video Teams
Production Phase Workflows.Structured pre-production, production, and post-production phases with approval gates and dependency management.
Crew Management.Coordinate in-house staff and freelance crew with role-based assignments, day rates, and phase-specific scheduling.
Client Review Portal.Structured review stages for scripts, storyboards, rough cuts, and final videos with feedback and approval tracking.
Social media agencies manage high-volume, always-on content production across multiple clients, platforms, and team members. Every month brings a repeating cycle of content planning, creation, approval, scheduling, community management, and reporting. SPP.co lets you sell social media packages — "10 Posts," "Monthly Content Bundle" — but it has no recurring workflow automation, no team workload management, and no way to manage the continuous content operations that define social media agency work. An order form is not an operations platform. AgencyPro provides the content workflow management, team coordination, and client operations that keep social media agencies running at scale.
Where SPP Falls Short
SPP's order system treats each month's social media work as a discrete package purchase, fragmenting what should be a continuous retainer relationship into disconnected transactions
No recurring workflow automation means monthly content cycles — strategy, creation, approval, scheduling, reporting — must be managed entirely outside SPP
SPP has no team management, so distributing content creation, strategy, and community management tasks across team members for multiple clients is unstructured
How AgencyPro Solves It
Content Production Workflow Automation
Social media agencies repeat the same production cycle monthly — strategy, creation, approval, scheduling, reporting. AgencyPro automates this recurring workflow so tasks generate automatically for each client every cycle, pre-assigned to the right team members. SPP treats each cycle as a new order, which means your operational workflow resets to zero every month.
Multi-Client Team Coordination
Your content creator handles 5 accounts, your strategist manages 8, and your community manager monitors 12. AgencyPro shows workload distribution across your team and all accounts simultaneously, enabling intelligent assignment and preventing burnout. SPP has no team awareness — it doesn't know how many orders one person is handling or whether they're overloaded.
Key Features for Social Teams
Recurring Content Workflows.Automated monthly content production cycles with pre-assigned tasks for strategy, creation, approval, and reporting.
Multi-Account Team Management.Distribute work across team members with cross-client workload visibility, capacity tracking, and intelligent assignment.
Content Approval Portal.Client-facing review interface for content batches with approval, revision requests, and feedback tracking per piece.
Ecommerce agencies handle complex, multi-service engagements — store builds, platform migrations, ongoing optimization, ad management, email marketing, and CRO — often for the same client simultaneously under different billing structures. SPP.co's productized order system can sell individual packages, but it cannot manage multi-phase development projects, coordinate cross-functional teams, track budgets against estimates, or handle clients who need a project-priced store build alongside an ongoing optimization retainer. The operational complexity of ecommerce agency work requires more than an order form. AgencyPro provides the structured engagement management, team coordination, and flexible billing that ecommerce agencies need.
Where SPP Falls Short
SPP cannot manage multi-phase ecommerce builds — store setup, design, development, data migration, QA, and launch require project management that SPP's order system does not provide
Multi-service client relationships are fragmented in SPP because each service line becomes a separate order with no unified client view or consolidated billing
No team coordination for cross-functional ecommerce work involving developers, designers, marketers, and strategists — SPP doesn't track internal team assignments or workloads
How AgencyPro Solves It
Multi-Service Client Management
An ecommerce client might have a store redesign project, an ongoing SEO retainer, a PPC management agreement, and periodic CRO audits running simultaneously. AgencyPro provides a unified client view with multiple projects and billing structures per account. SPP fragments this into disconnected orders with no holistic view of the client relationship or consolidated billing across service lines.
Complex Build Project Management
Ecommerce store builds and platform migrations involve discovery, design, development, data migration, testing, and launch — with dependencies and multiple specialists. AgencyPro's phased project management with milestones, task dependencies, and team assignments handles this complexity. SPP has no project management at all; a store build and a social media graphic enter the same order queue.
Key Features for E-commerce Teams
Unified Client Accounts.Manage multiple projects, retainers, and billing structures per ecommerce client in a single consolidated view.
Ecommerce Build Templates.Pre-structured project templates for store builds, platform migrations, and redesigns with phased timelines and task dependencies.
Cross-Functional Team Management.Coordinate developers, designers, and marketers on shared client accounts with workload visibility and role-based assignment.
Most agencies are fully operational on AgencyPro within a week. Here's what migration looks like, step by step:
1
Export your data from SPP.co
Export projects, tasks, clients, and contacts from SPP as CSV. Your existingSPP workspace stays intact — migration is additive, not destructive.
2
Import into AgencyPro
Use AgencyPro's guided CSV import to map your SPP clients, projects, and tasks into structured agency workspaces. Our onboarding team can do the import for you on paid plans.
3
Configure client portals & branding
Set up your branded client portal with your logo, colors, and custom domain. Decide which clients get portal access and what they can see — deliverables, invoices, retainer usage, communications.
4
Set up billing & retainers
Move recurring retainer billing into AgencyPro so you can stop reconcilingSPP hours with QuickBooks invoices. Connect Stripe for payments, define retainer terms, and let invoices generate automatically.
5
Run both tools in parallel for a week
Don't cancel SPP on day one. Run both in parallel for 5-7 days to verify everything migrated correctly. Then sunset SPP and the 3-4 bolt-on tools you no longer need.
“SPP is built around productized services, which fit a fraction of our marketing work. AgencyPro handled both productized retainers and bespoke campaigns without forcing us into one shape.”
— Representative customer scenario, verified on Trustpilot
Everything SPP.co Doesn't Include — And AgencyPro Does
SPP solves a slice of the agency operations problem. AgencyPro covers the full lifecycle — from lead to proposal to project to invoice to retainer to renewal.
Retainer Management
Automated retainer tracking with hour utilization dashboards, monthly rollover rules, overservice alerts, and one-click retainer invoicing.
Multi-Channel Campaign Management
Structure campaigns with parallel workstreams for SEO, PPC, content, and email with task dependencies and milestone tracking.
Native Time Tracking
Built-in timers, manual entries, and timesheet approvals tied directly to projects, clients, retainers, and invoices.
Team Capacity Planning
Visual workload distribution across your marketing team with real-time utilization tracking and intelligent assignment.
Track margins per campaign, per client, and per team member to identify your most and least profitable work.
Client Proofing Portal
Share design deliverables for structured visual review with contextual feedback, revision requests, and formal approval tracking.
Revision Scope Control
Track revision rounds per deliverable against contract limits and automatically trigger additional billing for extra rounds.
Creative Team Workflows
Assign tasks across designers with workload balancing, deadline management, and phased project timelines.
Milestone Billing
Tie invoices to project phases and deliverable approvals for billing that mirrors design project progression.
AgencyPro vs SPP.co: Pricing Comparison
SPP typically uses per-seat pricing that scales with your team and requires paid bolt-on tools for invoicing, time tracking, and client portals. AgencyPro is a flat plan with unlimited clients and contractors, billed per agency seat — not per client.
Cost Category
AgencyPro
SPP.co Stack
Project management
Included
SPP.co per-seat
Time tracking
Included — native
Harvest / Toggl ~$10-15/user/mo
Invoicing & payments
Included — Stripe-connected
QuickBooks/FreshBooks ~$30-60/mo
Client portal
Included — custom branding
SuiteDash/Copilot ~$30-50/mo
CRM & pipeline
Included
HubSpot/Pipedrive ~$15-50/user/mo
Proposals & e-sign
Included
PandaDoc/Proposify ~$19-49/mo
Total monthly cost (8-person agency)
From $99/mo flat
$400-700+/mo across 5 tools
Pricing estimates based on published list prices for tools commonly paired with SPP.co. See full AgencyPro pricing for details.
Frequently Asked Questions
We sell some productized packages and also do custom retainer work — can AgencyPro handle both?
Yes. AgencyPro supports fixed-price projects, hourly billing, retainer agreements, and milestone-based invoicing. You can use different billing models for different clients or even different service lines within the same client account. SPP.co locks you into a fixed-price order model that forces you to productize everything, even when that doesn't fit the engagement.
Does AgencyPro have a client portal like SPP.co?
AgencyPro includes a branded client portal where clients can view project progress, track retainer utilization, approve deliverables, and communicate with your team. Unlike SPP's order-focused portal designed for purchasing packages, AgencyPro's portal reflects the ongoing, collaborative client relationships that marketing agencies maintain.
SPP.co integrates with Trello for project management — isn't that enough?
Bolting Trello onto SPP means your project tasks, time tracking, billing, and client communication all live in disconnected systems. AgencyPro integrates project management, time tracking, billing, and client portals natively, so a task completion can trigger an invoice, tracked time feeds into retainer utilization, and clients see real progress — not just an order status.
How do we migrate from SPP.co to AgencyPro?
Export your client list and order history from SPP. AgencyPro's onboarding team helps you set up client accounts, configure your billing structures (retainers, projects, or hybrid), build project templates, and customize your branded portal. Most marketing agencies complete migration within one to two weeks.
We do sell some productized design packages — can AgencyPro support that alongside custom projects?
Yes. AgencyPro handles fixed-price projects, milestone billing, retainers, and hourly billing. You can offer productized packages for simple deliverables while managing complex custom projects for larger clients — all in the same system. SPP only supports the productized side, leaving custom projects without proper tooling.
How does revision tracking prevent scope creep in design projects?
Define the number of included revision rounds per deliverable or phase in your project setup. AgencyPro tracks each round automatically. When included rounds are exhausted, the system alerts your team and can trigger additional billing at your defined rate before further revisions proceed — a critical capability SPP completely lacks.
SPP.co has a nice client portal — how does AgencyPro compare?
SPP's portal is optimized for ordering packages and checking order status. AgencyPro's portal is built for ongoing project collaboration — clients see project timelines, review and approve deliverables, provide structured feedback, track retainer usage, and communicate with your team. It reflects a professional agency relationship, not a transactional storefront.
Is AgencyPro difficult to set up compared to SPP's simple order forms?
AgencyPro is more capable, so initial setup involves configuring project templates, billing structures, and your client portal. However, most design agencies are operational within a week, and the time invested pays off immediately in better project control, scope management, and team coordination that SPP cannot provide at any configuration level.
We sell some productized SEO packages alongside retainers — can AgencyPro handle both?
Yes. AgencyPro supports fixed-price projects for one-off audits or packages alongside ongoing retainer management for monthly clients. You get the flexibility to serve both engagement types in one system, rather than SPP which locks you into the productized model for everything.
How does retainer tracking work compared to SPP's order system?
In SPP, a retainer is essentially a recurring order with a fixed price and no hour tracking. In AgencyPro, retainers have allocated hours, real-time utilization tracking, overservice alerts, automated invoicing tied to actual work, and monthly reports showing deliverables completed versus scope — giving both you and your clients full visibility into retainer value.
Replace SPP.co With One Platform Built for Agencies
Agencies switch from SPP.co to AgencyPro to consolidate project management, client portals, retainer billing, and time tracking into one platform — at a lower total cost than the stack SPP requires.