Streamline your studio

We make it easy and fun to run your creative studio

Manage clients, create and send invoices, receive payments, access educational resources, and connect with a supportive community. We’re building the best business platform for creative studios and have much more in store.

First month FREE!

Give it a spin for a whole month for FREE!

Testimonials

  • After two decades (sheesh!) of freelancing and trying every business app under the sun, I finally found one that feels like it was made for me. Studioworks is intuitive, thoughtful, and supported by a genuinely inspiring creative community.

    — Emily Foran, Designer

  • Studioworks is awesome! I never liked Quickbooks, this feels more like me. You get a built-in community of creatives where you can ask business questions, share resources, and/or find your next collaborator, plus payment processing fees that are lower than other platforms, plus a product that is beautiful and makes invoicing feel less boring, more dreamy, and legit!

    — Jaime Borschuk, Photographer

  • I’ve been using Studioworks since the beta version and I am LOVING it! Everything is streamlined (not to mention, beautifully designed), which helps keep me organized and on top of my business. It means a lot to me that Studioworks values providing a quality, tailored product for the long-haul, not scaling-up into the oblivion of enshittification. THANK YOU, Studioworks!

    — Liz Volpi, Designer

You were referred by a member, so your first month is free!

By Creatives for Creatives

What started as a “fun internet project” for two friends evolved into a startup founded and fully bootstrapped by four design-minded tinkerers who approach everything they create with passion, a deep dedication to craft, and most of all integrity. We believe in independent software, and we’re building the business platform of our dreams.

Your membership includes:

    Clients

  • Add Clients & Manage Contact Info
  • Track Important Financial Data
  • Save Private Notes and Details
  • Create & Save Blueprints for Easy Invoicing and Paperwork

    Invoicing

  • Beautiful & Intuitive Interface
  • Charge by the Hour, Day, Week, Month, or Quarter
  • Flat Rate or Per Item Pricing
  • Give Discounts and Credits
  • Collect Taxes & Fees
  • Smart Reminders including a “Studio Heads-up” Before a Reminder is Sent
  • View/Pay Online and/or Export as PDF

    Payments

  • No Additional Transaction Fees
  • Accept ACH & Credit Card Payments
  • Share Wire & Check Information
  • Track Online Payments
  • Track payments made on Paypal, Zelle, Cash App, Venmo, and more
  • Track third-party payment platforms like Bill.com
  • International Currency Support

    Studio Hub

  • Your Logo and Brand
  • Limitless Color Customization
  • Curated Fonts by Award-Winning Type Designers
  • Beautifully Designed Templates

    Community

  • Live Co-Working
  • Support & Mentorship
  • Online & IRL Events
  • Tools & Resources
  • Courses & Education
  • Industry Perks & Discounts
  • Pricing & Business Advice
  • A Supportive Community of Professional Creatives

Manage Clients

Cultivate better relationships with your clients

Add clients, keep contact information up to date, write private notes for remembering important details, and see up-to-date financial snapshots with Studioworks. We make it easy to stay on top of clients and invoicing.

Become a Studioworks Member and you can start adding, managing, and organizing clients today.

Invoice & Get Paid

Create beautiful invoices and get paid every way

Create, design, and send beautiful invoices with features built exactly for how creatives do business. Mix and match line items. Collect online payments with the lowest rates possible and track payments made offline or elsewhere with our innovative Mark as Paid flow. Plus smart reminders, adaptable fees, and all sorts of other details that make getting paid a breeze.

Keep More of What You Earn

You can save hundreds or even thousands annually by invoicing with Studioworks. See how our fees compare below.

Studioworks is built with Stripe’s API, but with no additional transaction fees added — unlike competitors. This means we have the lowest possible transaction rates, especially for ACH — lower than Stripe’s own invoicing product!

  • Platform
  • ACH Fee
  • $60,000/year
  • $90,000/year
  • $120,000/year
  • Studioworks
  • 0.8% fee $5 max per transaction
  • $5 or less per invoice
  • $5 or less per invoice
  • $5 or less per invoice
  • Quickbooks
  • 1% (no max)
  • $600/year
  • $900/year
  • $1,200/year
  • Freshbooks
  • 1% (no max)
  • $600/year
  • $900/year
  • $1,200/year
  • Honeybook
  • 1.5% (no max)
  • $900/year
  • $1,200/year
  • $1,800/year
  • Bonsai
  • 1% (no max)
  • $600/year
  • $900/year
  • $1,200/year
  • Wave
  • 1% (no max, $1 min)
  • $600/year
  • $900/year
  • $1,200/year
  • Stripe Invoicing
  • 0.8% / $5
    + .04% or 0.5% (no max)
  • $240–300/year
  • $360–450/year
  • $480–600/year

Studioworks membership pays for itself.

Sign up today and save on every invoice.

Community & More

A supportive community with events, mentorship, resources, and so much more

The Studioworks Community Hub is the nicest place on the internet and is included in your membership! Connect with peers, find and swap resources, or join us for our weekly meetups and critiques. You can also find exclusive perks and discounts to software and other things you love offered to Studioworks members.

  • It really simplifies invoicing and payment with the cheapest rates around, which means I get to keep more of my own money.

    — Doug Wilson,
    Creative Director

  • Studioworks is intuitive, thoughtful, and supported by a genuinely inspiring creative community.

    — Emily Foran,
    Designer

  • Studioworks is awesome! It’s beautiful and makes invoicing feel less boring, more dreamy, and legit!

    — Jaime Borschuk,
    Photographer

  • I am LOVING it! Everything is streamlined (not to mention beautifully designed), which helps keep me organized and on top of my business.

    — Liz Volpi,
    Designer

All in One Place—Your Place

We built Studioworks to feel like a white-label product for your business, so you can look like an absolute boss to your clients. It’ll look like you hired a big, fancy web agency to build you a custom backend for invoicing, plus a public mini site for sharing your contact info and bio.

Create your Studio Hub today and customize it with your logo, limitless color choices, and typefaces by award-winning foundries. Start looking like a pro today.

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Custom Colors

Chose colors to match your studio aesthetic

Select a primary color, a text color, a highlight color, and even a page tint to create a beautiful, accessible color palette that instantly transforms the entire Studioworks web experience to match your studio’s aesthetic.

Primary Color

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Test it out

Beautiful Type

Curated fonts by celebrated type foundries

We’ve partnered with award-winning type foundries like Ohno Type Co. and MCKL Fonts to elevate your studio brand. We care a little too much about fonts and typography because we know you might, too.

Test it out
  • Studioworks Flair by Jessica Hische
    Headlines
  • Circular by Lineto
    Small Headlines and Labels
  • GT Alpina by Grilli Type
    Large blocks of paragraph text, like the bio on your Studio Hub landing page

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Meet the Team

We’re a small-but-mighty, values-driven team of experienced founders, designers, and developers

We bring our decades of experience running studios and building community resources alongside a deep devotion to craft into making magical, life-changing products for independent creatives and small studios. No investors, no growth-above-all mentality — just intuitive, beautiful, powerful tools to help creative businesses thrive.

  • Jessica Hische

    Jessica is a lettering artist, author, “designistrator”, entrepreneur, web tinkerer, and many other things. She’s run a small creative studio for nearly 20 years, working with clients like Wes Anderson, Target, Apple, Fender, and Penguin Random House. She loves sharing her knowledge — through online courses like The Dark Art of Creative Business, resources like Don’t Fear the Internet, as a prolific speaker, and in other ways big and small.

  • Chris Shiflett

    Chris is an entrepreneur, product designer, and web developer. He has spent the last 25 years building companies and communities and helping others do the same. Along the way, he has written a few books, spoken at conferences all over the world, and brought numerous good ideas to life. He is perhaps best known in the creative community as the co-founder and host of Brooklyn Beta, a friendly web conference.

  • Nick Sloan

    Nick is a veteran software engineer who has held leadership positions at numerous companies, including most recently head of engineering at Matter Neuroscience. Over the course of his career, he has helped build apps for companies like Apple, Samsung, Delve Fonts, and Tinybop. He’s also the co-founder of software company UpContent and the Pittsburgh Python User Group.

  • Sean Coates

    Sean has been building web and mobile apps and infrastructure for over 20 years, working on everything from payment processing and e-commerce to archiving and neuroscience. He was the architect of Samsung’s global e-commerce infrastructure which had zero (0!) downtime during his tenure. He likes working with small teams of smart people on meaningful projects. His specialties are architecture, backend development, APIs, and infrastructure.

Are you ready to look like a pro, keep your clients organized, send the best looking invoices on the planet, save hundreds or even thousands on fees, and join a supportive community of creatives?