Chooseday Jira integration

Vote on the Jira ticket — not in a side channel

Paste a Chooseday link in any Jira ticket comment or description. Your team votes on priority, approach, or implementation directly from the ticket. Winner declared automatically. No Jira plugin, no admin setup.

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9 of 9 voted · Closed Tuesday
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Cape Town wins!
Decision closed · outcome logged
🏔️Cape Town
68%
🏖️Zanzibar
25%
🏙️Nairobi
7%
Sound familiar?

Why group decisions break down

If any of these feel familiar, Chooseday was built for you.

01
Jira's vote button is not a real poll

Jira's built-in vote feature is a simple upvote counter — no options, no anonymity, no winner declaration. Actual multi-option decisions still happen in Slack threads, meetings, or comment chains that live outside the ticket where the work is tracked.

02
Architecture and priority decisions stall in comment threads

A Jira ticket with 20 comments debating two implementation approaches has a problem: no one is empowered to call it. A Chooseday vote with a deadline moves the decision from comment thread to declared result in 24 hours.

03
Sprint planning votes are dominated by whoever speaks first

In sprint planning, the team lead or senior engineer tends to anchor the conversation. Story point estimation by Fibonacci or planning poker can approximate priority, but it doesn't replace a structured, anonymous vote on what the team actually wants to build next.

How it works

From question to answer in minutes

01
Create a Chooseday decision for the ticket

Open Chooseday, name the decision to match the Jira ticket (e.g. "API versioning approach for PROJ-1234"), add the options being considered, set a voting deadline, and enable anonymous mode if needed.

02
Paste the link into the Jira ticket

Copy the Chooseday voting link and paste it into the Jira ticket description or add it as a comment tagging relevant team members. Anyone with Jira ticket access can click and vote in under 30 seconds.

03
Team votes in context

Engineers, PMs, and stakeholders click the link, read the options, and vote in their browser without creating a Chooseday account. Chooseday sends reminders as the deadline approaches so the decision doesn't stall.

04
Update the Jira ticket with the declared result

When the deadline closes, paste the Chooseday results link back into the Jira ticket and update the relevant fields — assignee, priority, label, or status. The decision is documented in the ticket where the work lives.

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Features

Everything your team needs

Built specifically for group decisions — not adapted from a survey tool.

No Jira plugin — just a link

Paste the Chooseday link anywhere in Jira — description, comment, or linked issue. No Atlassian Marketplace installation, no Jira admin permissions, no workspace configuration.

Anonymous voting for honest priority calls

Senior engineers and PMs can anchor technical discussions. Enable anonymous mode and every vote reflects genuine preference — not deference to seniority.

Ranked choice for backlog prioritisation

When you have 6 features competing for 3 sprint slots, ranked choice (IRV) surfaces the options with the broadest team support — not just whichever got mentioned first in planning.

Dot voting for effort-weighted priority

Use dot voting to let team members allocate points across competing options — ideal for sprint retrospectives or quarterly planning sessions where tradeoffs need to be weighed.

ADR-ready audit trail

Chooseday results pages include vote counts, percentages, and timestamps. Paste the link into your Architecture Decision Record as a permanent audit trail of how the technical decision was made.

Decision stays with the ticket

Link the Chooseday decision URL in the Jira ticket and it stays in context forever — not buried in a Slack thread from three months ago or lost in meeting notes nobody reads.

Use cases

Who uses Chooseday

Teams across every industry — from startups to communities.

Social proof

What teams are saying

We paste a Chooseday link in any Jira ticket where the team can't agree. 24 hours later we have a declared result and update the ticket. Decisions that used to take weeks now take a day.

DL
Dami L
Engineering Manager, Flutterwave

Architecture decision records used to have a "Decision" section that said "TBD" for months. Now we embed a Chooseday vote in the ADR ticket, close it in a week, and write in the actual decision.

EO
Emeka O
Staff Engineer, Andela

Sprint planning used to be whoever talks loudest wins. Anonymous Chooseday voting embedded in our planning tickets means the introvert with the best instincts has as much say as anyone else.

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Tosin A
Head of Engineering, Paystack
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Jira has a "Vote" button on issues, but it is a simple upvote counter — not a structured poll. It does not support multiple options, anonymous voting, ranked choice, or deadline-based decision-making. Teams work around this with story point comparisons, label schemes, or comment threads, none of which produce a binding, declared decision. Chooseday fills that gap without requiring a Jira plugin.

Create a Chooseday decision with the options your team is considering (implementation approach, priority tier, technical solution, etc.), copy the shareable link, and paste it into the Jira ticket description or a comment. Team members click and vote in their browser in under 30 seconds. When the deadline closes, the winner is declared and you can update the Jira ticket accordingly.

No. Chooseday works entirely via a browser link — paste it anywhere in Jira (description, comment, linked issue) and anyone with access to the ticket can vote. There is no Atlassian Marketplace installation, no Jira admin permissions needed, and no configuration required.

Yes. Enable anonymous mode when creating the Chooseday decision and individual votes are completely private — not visible to other voters, the Jira ticket assignee, or anyone else. This is particularly valuable for architecture decisions or priority calls where seniority bias can distort honest assessments.

Sprint planning decisions — such as which features to include, which technical debt to prioritise, or how to split an epic — are well-suited to Chooseday. Create a decision before or during planning, share the link in the relevant Jira epic or sprint planning ticket, and collect votes from the entire engineering team asynchronously. Use ranked choice to surface the highest-supported options across multiple competing items.

Yes. Chooseday pairs well with ADR workflows. When an architecture decision is under consideration, create a Chooseday vote for the proposed options, embed the link in the ADR Jira ticket or Confluence page, and record the result as part of the final ADR. The Chooseday results link serves as a permanent audit trail of who participated in the decision process.

Close the open decision in the Jira ticket — today

Paste a Chooseday link in any ticket. Team votes anonymously. Winner declared automatically. No Jira plugin. Free forever for small teams.

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