There is nothing on a shelf to count. The whole commercial question is what you agreed, what you delivered, what you billed for it, and how long the client took to pay — and in most firms at least two of those four live in somebody’s inbox.
Professional firms rarely fail at the work. They fail at the paperwork around it, and the paperwork is where the cash is.
None of these are accounting failures. They are all failures to have written something down in a place both sides can point at — which is what a quotation and an activity timeline are for.
Four steps, and the only one most firms do well is the second. This is what the platform actually gives you for the other three.
A quotation states the fee, the stages and the exclusions, and goes out for the client to accept or reject. What was agreed stops being a memory of a conversation.
When the third extra request arrives, there is something specific to point at — which is the difference between a variation and an absorbed cost.
Attachments and comments sit on any document, with a per-record activity timeline showing who did what and when. The engagement letter, the signed scope and the query all live on the thing they relate to.
That is what makes a query in April answerable in under a minute rather than after an hour in an inbox.
The accepted quotation converts to an order and an invoice rather than being retyped, so the number the client sees is the number they agreed to, with 5% VAT and your TRN on it.
Stage billing is raised as separate invoices against the engagement as each stage completes.
Receivables aging by bucket, client statements and post-dated cheques tracked to clearance. For a firm with no stock, this report is the balance sheet.
The 90-day column is usually the most expensive thing in a professional services business, and it is the one nobody looks at weekly.
Revenue and cost post against a cost centre, so a second office or a separate practice area has its own figure rather than being an argument at partner meetings.
Budgets sit alongside it, so budget-versus-actual is a report rather than an exercise somebody does in March.
Attendance, leave and payroll run on the same ledger as the client billing, so the two halves of a professional firm’s economics are in one place.
Being straight about the limit: hours are recorded for payroll, not for billing, and there is nothing that turns recorded time into an invoice. The questions below cover it.
No card, no setup call. Bring a scope you agreed and the invoice that followed, and see them as one chain.
What differs is the vocabulary and the billing rhythm. The commercial chain underneath is identical.
Engagements billed by stage, with client records and the paperwork attached to them.
Matters quoted and billed, with documents filed against the record they belong to.
Scopes agreed in writing, invoiced by milestone, chased through receivables.
Monthly fees and project work, with media and supplier costs booked against the client.
Support agreements and project work, with hardware bought in and billed on.
Stage-based fees on long projects, with subconsultant costs tracked against them.
Not a generic retail tool with a currency switch bolted on the side.
Invoices, credit notes and purchases carry VAT as you raise them, with the totals your return needs already summed. See VAT accounting software and what e-invoicing will require.
Attachments, comments and a per-record activity timeline, with closed periods and a full audit trail behind the ledger.
Basic covers a single branch from AED 115 a month. Multi-branch stock and transfers start on Professional at AED 215, which covers three — see pricing.
Quotations, receivables, payroll and the ledger are one platform. For a firm whose costs are almost entirely people, that removes the two systems most firms run alongside their accounts.
See the full feature listChart of accounts, journals, AR and AP, post-dated cheques, bank reconciliation and an audit trail — the ledger is here.
Attendance, leave and payroll for the people whose expertise you are selling — see HR & payroll.
Post cost and revenue against a cost centre and compare against budget, so a department or an office has a figure.
Sign-off routing on orders and journals, with a separation between who raises and who approves.
Equipment and fit-out on the balance sheet with depreciation posting itself — see assets management.
Ask which clients owe you most beyond ninety days in plain English and get the table back.
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No. There is no timesheet, no time-entry screen and no billable-hours calculation, so an invoice is a figure you raise rather than a total the system builds from logged time. Attendance and leave are recorded in HR for payroll, which is a different thing entirely. If time-based billing is how your firm works, this is the most important thing to know before a demo.
As a monthly invoice you raise against the client. There is no retainer balance that draws down automatically as work is done, and no automatic recurring invoicing outside the Real Estate module. Recurring journals can regenerate the accounting entry on a schedule, but the client invoice itself is raised each period.
Yes. Stages are raised as separate invoices against the engagement as each one completes, and what is still to be billed stays visible on the order.
On the record it belongs to. Attachments and comments sit on any document, with an activity timeline showing who did what and when — so the signed scope is on the quotation rather than in an inbox.
Yes. Receivables aging by bucket and monthly statements from the same ledger the invoices posted to, with post-dated cheques tracked through to clearance.
Through cost centres, at the level you post to them. What there is not is a project ledger that accumulates costs and revenue against a job record automatically — and without timesheets, staff cost cannot be attributed to a specific engagement. Be realistic about that limit if per-project margin is the number you care about.
Yes, with dated exchange rates and a base-currency ledger that still balances.
Yes. VAT is calculated on every invoice, credit note and purchase as you raise it, in AED, with the totals your return needs already summed and your TRN on the tax invoice.
Yes. Multi-branch users and reporting on one set of books with role-based access, and cost centres to separate the offices in reporting. Multi-branch starts on the Professional plan.
Bring a scope you agreed, the invoices that followed and the balance still outstanding, and see them as one chain. Fourteen days free, no card, export any time.