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Keep it — add ProHQ

ProHQ vs Jira

Issue tracker with configurable workflows for software teams. ProHQ is a process engine: it runs your whole operation as one process — offline, in the field, in your team's language — and we build and run it with you.

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ORIGIN: Australia · 2002
PRICING MODEL: Per-user SaaS tiers (free for small teams to enterprise) plus a self-hosted Data Center option; USD-priced and costly per-seat once Marketplace apps stack up.
BEST FOR: Software and IT teams tracking issues, bugs and sprints with agile boards.

CREDIT WHERE IT'S DUE

What Jira is genuinely good at.

Real configurable workflows

Workflows are genuine state machines of statuses and transitions you edit in a graphical designer — the closest thing to a process engine in PM.

Open API and ecosystem

A documented REST API, bundled CSV import and a large Marketplace of apps make it highly integrable.

Powerful automation and JQL

JQL querying, automation rules and agile reporting let dev teams move work and slice data deeply.

SIDE BY SIDE

Six things that decide it.

CAPABILITY

ProHQ

Jira

Built around your process

A state-machine workflow that mirrors how you actually work — not generic boards, lists or tickets you bend to fit.

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Offline-first, built for the field

Record work where it happens — site, road, shop floor — with no signal. It syncs when the network returns.

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One process, everything attached

Tables, documents, files, approvals and chat hang off the exact stage they belong to — not separate apps that never quite talk.

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A team that runs it with you

We sit with your people, map the process and keep it running. Not a download-and-configure-it-yourself licence.

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Your team's language

Feels like Excel and WhatsApp, in the language the field already speaks. No training period.

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AI only where it pays

Drafting, summarising and repetitive paperwork automated on the process — included, not a per-seat upsell.

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✓ Built in ~ Partial / add-on / configure-it-yourself ✕ Not available

WHERE IT STOPS

The gap ProHQ fills.

Jira genuinely has configurable status/transition workflows — the strongest engine in the PM category. But they are issue-tracker-shaped: they move a ticket between statuses, not a whole business through stages with tables, finance, documents, approvals and chat unified on each. It models software work, not how a field-heavy operation runs.

Issue-tracker-shaped

Workflows move issues between statuses but can't model a whole field business with tables, money, documents and chat on each stage.
No offline field use

Cloud-first and assumes connectivity — no offline-first mode for low-signal field work.
Complex to administer

Workflows, schemes and permissions are admin-heavy and usually need technical setup, not a no-training tool.
Dev-shaped, English/USD

Built for software teams, priced in USD per seat, and doesn't feel like Excel+WhatsApp in a worker's own language.

THE INDIA REALITY

Atlassian has a large Bengaluru R&D and support presence, but Jira is still USD-priced per-seat SaaS aimed at software/IT teams, not field-heavy Indian SMBs.

KEEP IT — ADD PROHQ

Keep it, or run ProHQ alongside.

For everything that is not a code ticket — operations, projects, approvals, the field — ProHQ runs the real process as one state machine with everything attached, works offline, and runs in the team's own language. Engineering keeps Jira; the wider operation runs on ProHQ without an admin maintaining schemes.

INTEGRATION

Bring your Jira data with you

Jira's documented REST API and CSV export make migration straightforward; ProHQ imports projects, issues and workflow statuses, then re-maps each status into a process stage with the right tables, files and approvals attached.

Need to keep Jira in the loop? We build that connector by hand during onboarding — which is why the beta is just twenty seats.

REACHING PARITY

Matching Jira, on the process engine

Where Jira leads today, here's what we're building — so it works offline and in the field too:

Configurable state-machine workflows (already core to ProHQ)
Automation rules that advance work and notify across stages
Reporting and queryable views over process data

THE VERDICT

The best real workflow engine in PM, but built for software issues, not your whole field business.

We'll tell you honestly whether ProHQ is the right move from Jira for how you work. That conversation is free.

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