Retainers
Recurring creative fees that invoice themselves
Bill an ongoing creative fee on a schedule and let recurring work invoice itself. Built for creative agencies and studios with recurring clients on the books month after month.
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Recurring revenue
Set the fee once, then let it run
A retainer bills an ongoing creative fee on the schedule you set, so recurring work invoices itself instead of waiting on someone to remember. Point it at the client, name the amount, choose how often it should run, and step away. It is built for creative agencies and studios that carry the same clients month after month, where the billing is predictable and the last thing you want is to re-key it by hand.
- Bill an ongoing creative fee on a schedule you define
- Recurring work invoices itself, with no manual re-keying
- Made for agencies and studios with recurring clients
- Owner and admin controlled
Cadence
Weekly, biweekly, monthly, or quarterly
Pick the rhythm that matches the engagement. Retainers run weekly, biweekly, monthly, or quarterly, with monthly set as the sensible default for most ongoing relationships. Once a cadence is chosen, scheduled runs happen automatically on time, so the next invoice lands without anyone touching it. When something comes up early, you can still generate the next invoice on demand.
- Choose weekly, biweekly, monthly, or quarterly
- Monthly is the default for ongoing engagements
- Scheduled runs happen automatically on your cadence
- Generate the next invoice now whenever you need it
Billing integrity
One period, one invoice, guaranteed
The billing run is idempotent by design, which is a quiet way of saying a period can only ever be billed once. A schedule that double-fires, or a manual run that happens to overlap a scheduled one, can never produce two invoices for the same period. Every generated invoice uses whole-cent amounts and a net-14 due date, so the numbers are clean and the terms stay consistent across every invoice.
- Idempotent billing runs, by design
- A double-fired schedule can't bill a period twice
- A concurrent manual run is de-duplicated too
- Whole-cent amounts and a net-14 due date on every invoice
Getting paid
Paid through the same Stripe checkout
Every retainer invoice is paid through the same Stripe portal checkout your one-off invoices already use, so clients get one consistent payment experience whether the work was billed once or on a schedule. Retainers never auto-charge a card. The invoice is generated and sent, the net-14 due date gives the client room to pay, and payment happens through checkout on their terms.
- Clients pay through the same Stripe portal checkout as one-off invoices
- Retainers never auto-charge a card
- A net-14 due date gives clients time to pay
- The same checkout experience across every invoice
Controls
Create, pause, delete, or generate on demand
You stay in charge of every retainer. Create a new one, pause it when a client goes quiet, delete it when the engagement ends, or generate the next invoice on demand when the timing calls for it. Between those moments the scheduled runs happen automatically in the background. All of it is owner and admin controlled, so billing authority stays with the people who should hold it.
- Create, pause, or delete a retainer anytime
- Generate the next invoice on demand
- Scheduled runs happen automatically in the background
- Owner and admin controlled
Frequently asked questions
No. Retainers never auto-charge a card. Each generated invoice is paid through the same Stripe portal checkout your one-off invoices use, with a net-14 due date that gives the client time to pay on their own terms.
You can bill weekly, biweekly, monthly, or quarterly. Monthly is the default and fits most ongoing engagements, but you can set whichever cadence matches the client relationship.
No. The billing run is idempotent by design. A schedule that double-fires, or a manual run that overlaps a scheduled one, can never bill the same period twice, one period only ever produces one invoice.
Yes. You can generate the next invoice on demand whenever the timing calls for it, and you can pause or delete a retainer at any time. Scheduled runs continue automatically until you change them.
Retainers are owner and admin controlled. Creating, pausing, deleting, and generating invoices on demand all sit with owners and admins, keeping billing authority with the right people.
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