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We moved our own projects out of Jira. It is superb for product engineering and quietly wrong for client work, because a ticket knows nothing about the client paying for it.

Prices and features checked against Jira's own pricing page on 18 September 2026.

Choose Jira if
–You run product engineering with sprints and releases
–You need deep issue workflows and dev tool integrations
–Your teams are organised by product, not by client
–You already have delivery and billing covered elsewhere
Choose ZlyntOffice if
✓Your work is done for clients who pay for it
✓You need capacity, budget and billing beside the work
✓You want the client to see progress without a Jira licence
✓You want the whole business readable by AI, not one project tool

Jira is the right tool for a product engineering organisation, and we are not trying to replace it there. For an agency or a consultancy, it makes you manage the business in three places.

Side by side

CapabilityJiraZlyntOffice
Built forProduct engineering teamsClient-service businesses
Knows the clientNoEvery project sits under a client
Budget and feesNot coveredFees, burn and margin on the project
Time to invoiceVia add-onsNative: time becomes an invoice line
Capacity with leaveAdd-on or manualNative, from HR
Client visibilityNeeds a licence or an exportFree client portal
Sprint and issue depthExcellentDeliberately simpler
AI access to your dataAssistant over issuesConnector across clients, work, people and money
Price for 10 peopleAround $80 a month, plus add-ons$50 a month, everything included
Best suited toSoftware product teamsFirms delivering work for clients

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Moving your data across.

We did this ourselves. Export open issues per project and import them as work items; historic closed tickets are usually best left in Jira read-only rather than dragged across.

Day 1List active projects and map them to clients. Import open issues as work items.
Day 2–3Rebuild recurring engagement shapes as project templates.
Week 1Run a sprint of client work here, with time and billing attached.
Week 4Keep Jira for product engineering if you have it; retire it for client delivery.
Why we built our own

We left Jira ourselves.

Our delivery lived in Jira, our clients in a CRM, our invoices in a third tool, and every Friday someone reconciled the three. The tickets were beautifully tracked and told us nothing about whether the work was profitable or whether the client was happy. Moving to one record was the single biggest change we made.

Switching questions

If you build a product with sprints and releases, no. Keep Jira. This is for teams delivering work to clients.

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