Billing for studios & larger agencies
At studio scale, the margin leak is invisible— until it isn’t.
Handl connects the work across every project to the money you're owed, so scope creep, late payers and cash-flow gaps stop hiding inside the volume. One number, your whole book, in view.
The shape of the problem
Past ten people, the pain changes shape — it goes quiet
Scope creep at book level is invisible margin loss
On one project it's annoying. Across ten, fifteen, twenty clients it never shows on a P&L — each “quick favour” is too small to flag, and there's no single place where they add up. The clients who scope-creep hardest are often the ones who pay slowest, so it compounds — and you find out which accounts are quietly unprofitable about two quarters too late.
If retainer margin's below 25%, it's a discovery problem
You can't fix what you can't see. The creep needs to surface per client, in one place, before the quarterly review — not after.
Big-client exposure: approved, then silence
Net 60, intermediary AP teams, “our accounts payable runs on a cycle.” No dispute — just six figures sitting in invoices you've already earned. Revenue climbs and the bank account doesn't move. At your scale, the gap between “work delivered” and “money in” decides whether you make payroll, not your margin.
What studios do instead
More process than a freelancer — and still leaking
An accounting platform or ERP
Xero, QuickBooks, something heavier — bills fine but has no idea what your project tools know.
Project management across the floor
Jira, Asana, Monday, ClickUp — disconnected from billing, so “is this milestone billable yet?” is a human question someone answers by hand.
An ops person running an AR aging spreadsheet
Chasing manually, treating each overdue invoice as a one-off to get to eventually instead of a pipeline stage.
Scope tracked nowhere consistent
The small out-of-scope asks get absorbed across teams — never logged, never priced, never visible at the book level.
Cash flow forecast in a separate spreadsheet
Already out of date by the time anyone opens it.
Real people, real tools, and still no single view connecting the work you're doing to the money you're owed. The leaks are happening in the seams between systems.
What Handl does
What Handl does for studios
The work and the money finally share a source of truth — at volume.
Scope creep, made visible across the whole book
Billing tied to delivery — across every project tool you run
Collections that scale without scaling the headcount
Cash-flow forecasting that knows your actual pipeline
Integrations
Works with the tools you already run.
Monday, Asana, Jira, ClickUp and Trello for the work. Xero and MYOB for the books. Stripe for the payments.
Pricing
From $29/mo — the Agency plan caps at $199, whatever the headcount.
At studio scale you’ll want the Agency plan: $199/mo, unlimited team members, every feature above. That’s the ceiling. The per-user tools punish you for having a real team — the bill climbs with every hire. Handl prices by plan, and the top one stops at $199 whatever the headcount. Cancel any time.
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Make the invisible margin visible.
At studio scale, the money you’re losing isn’t dramatic — it’s quiet, spread thin, and hiding in the volume. Handl connects the work across every project to the money you’re owed, surfaces the scope creep, automates the chasing, and forecasts the cash. Stop finding out two quarters late.
Built by Darren Clark, who spent over 20 years running digital agencies and watched the margin leak out exactly this way. Talk to Darren →
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