Track billable hours and manage invoices in an AI-powered system built with AI to fit your creative agency's specific billing workflow.




Customize a billing setup with the exact steps and views your agency needs. Add invoice templates and tracking as your workflows evolve—no code.





Connect hour trackers, project expenses, and payment systems with real-time sync—or manage everything in Softr Databases. Create a single source of truth for your agency.
Give designers and clients the right access. Set up secure logins, user groups, and granular permissions for every invoice and report in minutes.
Your billing tools are mobile-ready. Let designers track hours or managers approve budgets on the go with a downloadable PWA—no extra design needed.
Your billing tools are mobile-ready. Let designers track hours or managers approve budgets on the go with a downloadable PWA—no extra design needed.
Build native automations to handle invoice generation, payment notifications, and status updates automatically whenever billing records are changed.
Provide separate logins for creative teams, finance, and clients. Create personalized dashboards so each user sees only their relevant billing info.
Apply rules for different roles. Customize who can view budgets, edit invoices, or pull revenue reports at the most granular level.
Protect sensitive agency financial information from threats. Softr is fully compliant with SOC2 and GDPR regulations.
No more one-size-fits-all tools or costly custom builds. Softr is easy to use and fully customizable, so you can launch faster, adapt as you grow, and skip the complexity of traditional software.

Build your billing tool in minutes with AI—no manual configuration or custom dev time needed.

Add features like revenue reporting, budget approvals, or automated invoicing as your agency grows.

Start with billing, then add client portals and team dashboards—all in one place with no extra tools.
Co-build with AI
Simply describe what you need. Let Softr handle everything - Interface, database, workflows.
Iterate with AI or visually
Control most critical parts of your app yourself - roles, permissions, security.
Ship the same day
Invite team members or external clients and partners right away. No developer handover.
Use drag-and-drop blocks to build a portal that looks sleek and modern out of the box. Add only the features you need, and iterate as your workflows evolve.




Design billing solutions are specialized invoicing platforms where creative agencies and freelance designers can manage client payments, project hours, and expenses in a professional workspace. Instead of manually drafting invoices or chasing payments via email, you can automate the entire billing lifecycle. This ensures you get paid faster, maintain clear financial records, and provide your design clients with a transparent bill-pay experience.
Softr is the first AI-native platform for building business software, making it uniquely suited for creating custom design billing solutions. You can describe your specific invoicing requirements—like billable hour tracking or tiered service packages—to the AI Co-Builder to instantly generate your database, client portals, and payment logic.
You don't need to code. You can start with an AI-generated foundation or a billing template. Softr Databases handles your financial records natively, or you can sync with tools like Airtable or QuickBooks. You have full control to brand the billing experience with your studio's identity and set strict permissions so clients only see their specific invoices and contracts.
You can build a comprehensive suite of financial tools within your design billing solutions to streamline your creative business:
- AI-Powered Intelligence – Use Ask AI to query your lifetime billables or let AI Agents summarize unbilled hours across different design projects.
- Vibe Coding Blocks – Create custom UI components, such as a visual project timeline or a dynamic pricing calculator, using the AI Code block to match your studio's specific needs.
- Softr Workflows – Automate your business by triggering late payment reminders or generating a fresh invoice PDF the moment a project milestone is marked complete.
- Client Payment Portals – Provide secure logins where clients can view their historical invoices, download receipts, and see active project balances.
- Stripe Integration – Accept credit card or ACH payments directly within the app for seamless settling of outstanding balances.
- Dashboard Analytics – Monitor your design agency's revenue trends, average project value, and outstanding accounts receivable with real-time charts.
All these features are added via drag-and-drop, allowing you to iterate on your billing process without technical overhead.
Vibe coding allows you to build sophisticated design billing solutions by focusing on the 'vibes' or requirements of your creative workflow while AI handles the execution. In Softr, you describe functionality like "a retainer-based billing system with automatic monthly renewals," and the AI Co-Builder builds the production-ready application infrastructure.
Softr removes the risk from AI-generated apps by handling the complex backend work—like secure payment processing and client authentication—natively. This allows you to generate a custom invoicing tool that is stable and secure from the start, avoiding the maintenance issues typical of raw code while still getting a perfectly tailored design billing experience.
Yes. You can manage your entire client roster and various design teams within a single billing platform. Softr's robust permissions ensure that Client A only sees their own branding project invoices, while your internal accounting team has a global view of all agency revenue. Roles can be defined so that designers track their hours while managers approve the final billables before they are sent to the client.
Absolutely. You can start building your design billing solutions directly within Softr by using Softr Databases. It is the perfect place to create your tables for hourly rates, client contact info, and project status without needing external software.
However, if you are moving away from spreadsheets or tools like Airtable, Google Sheets, or HubSpot, you can easily connect those as your backend. Softr provides the flexibility to build your billing structure from scratch or layer it on top of your existing project data instantly via API or native connectors.
Softr Databases is the recommended choice for design billing solutions, as it provides lightning-fast performance and native relational logic for connecting invoices to specific clients and projects.
If your financial data is already stored elsewhere, Softr connects to over 17 external sources, including Airtable, Google Sheets, and SmartSuite. You can even mix data sources—for example, pulling project tasks from Airtable and managing actual payment records in Softr Databases. This real-time, two-way sync ensures that when a client pays an invoice in your app, your database is updated automatically.
Yes, Softr provides granular control over the client experience in your design billing solutions. You can design a streamlined dashboard where clients see only their 'Paid' and 'Pending' invoices, while your internal team sees a more complex view including profit margins and billable efficiency.
You can set up custom roles—such as 'Freelancer,' 'Project Manager,' or 'Client Stakeholder'—and define exactly what each person can edit. This ensures that a client can view their billing history but cannot modify their hourly rate or project scope, keeping your financial data secure and your workflow professional.
Yes, you can fully white-label your design billing solutions to match your studio's brand. You can use your own logo, typography, and brand colors to ensure the invoicing portal looks identical to your portfolio and website. Use a custom domain (e.g., billing.yourstudio.com) and remove all Softr branding to provide a cohesive, professional experience that builds trust with your clients.
Yes, Softr allows you to tailor every aspect of your design billing solutions' interface. You can prioritize what matters most to your workflow—whether that's a list of pending approvals or a summary of monthly recurring revenue.
You can utilize various view blocks such as:
- Table blocks for detailed line-item invoice tracking.
- Kanban blocks to move projects through billing stages (e.g., 'Draft' to 'Sent' to 'Paid').
- Charts to visualize agency growth and payment turnaround times.
- Calendar blocks to track payment deadlines and project milestones.
- Forms for clients to submit new project requests or billing updates.
Changing the layout is simple with the visual builder, allowing you to refine your billing UX as your agency grows.
Security is a top priority for design billing solutions. All data is protected with TLS encryption in transit and at rest. If you use Softr Databases, your financial records are stored in a SOC 2 Type II compliant environment in Germany.
For those connecting external tools like Airtable or SQL, Softr acts as a secure interface that displays data in real time based on your specific visibility rules, without storing your sensitive records. You have total control over user authentication and can ensure that sensitive financial details, like bank info or client budgets, are only accessible to authorized personnel.
It is fully production-ready from day one. Softr differs from other AI builders because it doesn't just generate a mock-up of design billing solutions; it builds on a stable, scalable infrastructure.
Softr handles the heavy lifting—including secure user logins, database architecture, and payment integrations—natively. This means you skip the 'Day Two' problems of fixing buggy AI code and instead get a robust invoicing platform that is ready to process real client payments and manage professional design contracts immediately.
Softr is the first AI-native platform designed for business software, offering a 'best of both worlds' approach for design billing solutions. Unlike traditional no-code tools that require hours of manual setup or 'vibe coding' tools that yield unmaintainable code, Softr's AI Co-Builder generates a secure foundation in minutes.
You get the rapid speed of AI-driven creation combined with a professional visual editor for fine-tuning your billing workflow. It’s built specifically for non-technical creative teams who need an enterprise-grade invoicing system without the complexity of traditional development.
Yes. Softr supports native workflows that allow you to connect your design billing solutions to your entire tech stack. You can automate tasks like sending a Slack notification when an invoice is viewed or automatically updating a project's status when a Stripe payment is confirmed.
With support for REST APIs, webhooks, and integrations with tools like Intercom and Google Workspace, you can build a seamless ecosystem where your billing data flows effortlessly between your design software and your accounting records, all without writing a single line of code.
Describe what you need. Softr's AI builds it in minutes. Get started free—no setup time, no dev needed.