Look like a pro,
get paid like a pro
Run your creative studio from one beautifully branded place
Send the best-looking invoices on the planet. Get paid faster (while saving a boatload on transaction fees). Keep yourself and your clients organized. And join a supportive, friendly creative community with resources, co-working, and more.
- After that, just $39/mo.
- Cancel anytime
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What creatives are saying
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I am LOVING it! Everything is streamlined (not to mention beautifully designed), which helps keep me organized and on top of my business.
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It really simplifies invoicing and payment with the cheapest rates around, which means I get to keep more of my own money.
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Studioworks is awesome! I never liked QuickBooks, this feels more like me. It makes invoicing feel less boring, more dreamy, and legit!
Clients don’t like ugly invoices any more than you do.
As creative business owners ourselves, we wanted a simple, beautiful home base to run the admin side of things. So we built one.
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 & Member
Go ahead, see for yourself.
Enter the number of invoices you send annually and the average value of those invoices to see how much your business could save using Studioworks.
| Platform | Monthly Subscription | ACH Transaction Fees | Cost per Year | Savings with Studioworks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studioworks | $39 | $0 | $0 | — |
| QuickBooks | $35 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| FreshBooks | $38 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| HoneyBook | $59 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Bonsai | $19 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Wave | $16 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Fees shown are for ACH payments. This is a directional estimate. Actual costs vary based on your card vs. ACH mix.
Studioworks could save you hundreds (or even thousands) every year on transaction fees
Studioworks partners with Stripe for fast, easy payment processing. But unlike those Big Green Platforms Who Shall Not Be Named, we don’t tack on extra transaction fees. That means you get the lowest possible rates — especially for ACH — even lower than Stripe’s own invoicing product. See how much you could save below.
| Platform | ACH Fee | $60,000/year | $90,000/year | $120,000/year |
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| 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 |
You can use Studioworks alongside your current tools, no switching required
Do you regularly bill $1,000 or more per invoice? Send your invoices through Studioworks, without changing anything else. The transaction fees you’ll save can pay for your Studioworks subscription and your current invoicing platform.
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 & Member
Get paid faster (and keep more of what you make)
Hundreds of creative studios, agencies, and designers rely on Studioworks to send polished invoices, collect payments, and stay organized — all from one calm, beautifully branded home base.
Studioworks helps you:
Get Paid Faster
- Receive online payments (ACH + card) with the lowest possible rates
- Get paid in any currency
- Track offline and third-party payments (PayPal, Zelle, Wise, Bill.com, and more)
- Mark invoices as paid with our unique “Mark as Paid” flow
Customize Invoices
- Upload your logo and brand palette
- Choose curated typefaces by award-winning designers
- Pick from professionally designed templates
- Mix hourly, flat rate, retainers, usage fees, and itemized work
- Create reusable Invoice Blueprints
- Send smart reminders (with a heads-up before they go out)
Manage Clients
- Store company and contact details
- Save private notes (company-level and contact-level)
- Track important financial data
- See the full client relationship at a glance
Community
- Live virtual co-working
- Support, advice, and mentorship
- Online & IRL events
- Tools & resources, including the Studioworks Library
- Industry perks & discounts
Coming Soon
- Proposals and contracting, built right in
- A more complete studio management workflow from proposal to payment
- No bloat. Just the tools you actually need.
Send gorgeous invoices
That match your preferred project structure(s)
Combining a project rate with hourly work? Need to charge usage fees alongside retainer work? No problem. You can do it with Studioworks — while looking like the pro you are.
- Upload your logo and brand palette
- Choose from curated typefaces by award-winning designers
- Pick from and customize professionally designed templates
- Mix and match line items for hourly and itemized work
- Send smart reminders (and get a heads-up before any email hits the client’s inbox)
- Create reusable Invoice Blueprints
- Easily add any fees and taxes you need to charge
See your complete client relationships at a glance
Instead of duct-taping your CRM to QBO
Save both company-level and contact-level private notes to remember the details that matter. Plus, with real-time financial snapshots built right in, Studioworks helps you stay on top of client work.
It’s not a gigantic full-featured CRM, because you don’t need one. But you can:
- Add company details
- Manage individual contact info
- Track important financial data
- Save private notes and details
Get paid faster and track payments from anywhere
While paying the lowest transaction fees on planet Earth (and probably the moon, too). No more fiddling with plugins or manually reconciling payments. ACH, credit card, wire, and third-party payments all come right into your Studioworks hub.
- Receive online payments with the lowest rates possible
- Accept ACH and credit cards
- Track payments made on PayPal, Zelle, Cash App, Venmo, and more
- Track payments from third-party platforms including Bill.com, Wise, and more
- Easily share wire and check information
- Get paid in any currency
- Track offline payments (or work trades, baked goods, or vintage furniture) with “Mark as Paid”
Give yourself and your clients a calm place to land.
While looking like an absolute boss.
We built Studioworks to feel like a white-label product for your business. 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.
Because when you look like a pro, you get paid like a pro.
Invoice the way you want to. Get paid effortlessly. Grow your creative business.
Try Studioworks for 7 days free. It’s easy to cancel.
Making it a little less lonely to run your creative business
Studioworks isn’t just a platform to help you get paid faster and keep more of what you make. It’s also a supportive community of designers, artists, illustrators, and makers from all over the world.
Your membership includes:
- Live virtual co-working — friendly accountability every week
- Support, advice, and mentorship — real help from other creative pros
- Online & IRL events — including pricing roundtables and industry meetups
- Courses & education — practical business topics, made clear
- Tools & resources — including the Studioworks Library
- Industry perks & discounts — support fellow creatives and get a deal
You might be wondering…
What’s wrong with using QuickBooks, Notion, Dropbox, etc.?
Nothing at all. We’ve used these tools (and so many more)! They work great. The problem is using (and paying for) all of them when you only need a little bit of what each tool does.
We’re building Studioworks for people who don’t want to use one little piece of five different tools. You’d rather use one product made just for you — polished, professional, intuitive, and designed for how creative studios actually work.
Can I import my data from other platforms?
Not yet, but it’s on our roadmap. Many members use Studioworks alongside their current tools to save on transaction fees and streamline invoicing, without having to move everything over at once.
Will my clients need to have an account?
Nope! Studioworks creates unique links your clients use to view invoices and make payments.
How does invoice payment work?
Invoices can be paid through credit card and bank transfer (via Stripe); Venmo; PayPal; by check; through a third party like Bill.com or Wise; or any offline way you like to get paid. You can set a preferred payment method and track everything in one place.
Will you collect additional transaction fees?
Studioworks doesn’t collect any additional fees — only the standard processing fees incurred through Stripe. If you tend to send larger invoices (think $2,000+) a few times a month, you can save thousands in fees throughout the year.
Will you help with tax preparation and filing?
Studioworks helps you simplify your bookkeeping and tax prep. Check out our free, ungated Bookkeeping Wizard in the Studioworks Library.
How will you protect my financial data?
We use Stripe to handle all financial transactions, and we design Studioworks with privacy and safety in mind. We will never sell your data to a third party, and you control what you share with clients.
Does Studioworks use AI?
No. We’re open to using AI down the road in specific, utilitarian ways — but only if it’s ethical and opt-in. Today, there are no AI integrations.
If you send four-figure invoices, Studioworks membership pays for itself
Start by claiming your studio handle and customizing your brand. You’ll be set up in 5 minutes.
After that, just $39/mo. And SO easy to cancel.
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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.
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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.
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Chris Shiflett
Chris is a product designer, web developer, and entrepreneur with 25 years of experience turning good ideas into products people love. He has a rare knack for making software feel simple, beautiful, and considered — and he has written a few books about it along the way. He is perhaps best known in the creative community as the co-founder and host of Brooklyn Beta, a friendly web conference.
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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.
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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?