Billable is not billed. This firm is 79% billable and has invoiced six per cent of it — $8,910.82 sitting unbilled against $9,473.32 of billable work.
Time tracking →You shouldn't price a year
while waiting for a callback.
Nine reports covering money in, money out, hours, tax, products, deliveries and tasks — readable by the person running the firm, not only by someone you have to hire. You don't need a CFO on staff or your accountant free this afternoon to know what you're owed, what you're holding, and what to charge next.
Trusted by the studios doing the work
Nobody should have to wait for permission to understand their own firm
Design businesses move faster than the people who normally hold the numbers. Your accountant closes the month when they close the month. A CFO is a hire most firms at five, ten, fifteen people can't justify. So the decisions get made anyway — on instinct, on last year's rate, on a feeling about how the last one went.
That is how a firm starts a year-long project at the wrong rate. Not through carelessness, but because the person who could have said "your realization is six per cent and your last three jobs came in under" wasn't available in the week the proposal went out. And that mistake doesn't stay with the firm — it reaches the team hired against that revenue, the trades scheduled around it, and the client who now has a designer quietly losing money on their house.
Reports and the live project audit exist to end that. Every number here is readable by the principal, on a Tuesday, without an appointment.
Each one answers a question you'd otherwise chase
These aren't dashboards to admire. Each is the answer to a specific question a principal, a bookkeeper or a project manager asks on a particular day of the month. Pick one and look at the real thing.
Who owes us, and how late?
Total invoiced against paid and outstanding, with aging on every overdue line and payout status alongside. The three numbers at the top always add up, so you never reconcile the report before you can use it.
What do we owe vendors?
Value, paid and balance, with orders flagged when they've gone unacknowledged, stuck in transit, or aged past thirty days. This is the other side of the invoices report — the money already committed against work you may not have billed yet.
Whose money are we holding?
Client deposits sit as a liability until an estimate converts, bucketed by age so nothing sits for a year unnoticed. Spending a deposit you haven't earned is the quietest way a profitable firm runs out of cash.
What is the FF&E making?
Total cost against total sell price, the profit between them, and the margin percentage across whatever you've filtered to — one project, one room, one vendor, or the whole studio.
Are we billing our hours?
Hours, billable share, average and effective rate, and realization — the share of billable work you've actually invoiced. It is the one report that tells you the difference between being busy and being paid.
What do we owe, and where?
Collected and pending tax by category and by jurisdiction, down to the city and ZIP, for the tax year. Sales tax, VAT, GST and IVA all land in the right place without you sorting them at quarter-end.
What's left to install?
Items still to install, grouped by room, with what's delivered and ready separated from what isn't. It downloads as a PDF rather than a CSV, because it's going to a crew on a van, not into a spreadsheet.
Are our estimates any good?
Estimated against actual on every task, with completion rate and the variance between what you budgeted and what it took. A variance this wide means one of two things, and both of them are worth knowing.
What do the books say?
Pulled live from QuickBooks on accrual or cash basis, for any date range, without leaving Workroom. It's your accountant's number sitting next to the operational numbers it came from — not a second set of books.
Three numbers most firms have never seen
Plenty of software will tell you what you invoiced. These are the figures that tell you what happened to the work you did but didn't bill, the deposit you're sitting on, and the estimate you got badly wrong.
A client deposit is a liability, not revenue, until the estimate converts. Every dollar here is aged, so none of it quietly becomes a surprise.
Estimates →21h 41m actually spent against 433h budgeted. Whether that's under-logging or wild over-estimating, it's the number that tells you which.
Project management →Quarter-end stops being archaeology
Tax gets tracked where it was charged — by category, and by country, state and city — so filing is reading a report rather than reconstructing a year from invoices. A firm working across California, the Hamptons, London, Vancouver and San Miguel is dealing with sales tax, VAT, GST and IVA at once, and each one lands in the right place.
- Collected and pending kept apart, so you're not filing on money the client hasn't paid yet.
- By category — design fees carry VAT in London and IVA in Mexico City but no sales tax in most US states, and the report knows the difference.
- By jurisdiction — country, state or province, then city, which is where the liability actually concentrates.
A report nobody sends is a report nobody reads
Every report emails from where it sits, with the full row set attached as a CSV. Your bookkeeper gets the tax report on the first, your client gets the installation list before the van arrives, and nobody exports anything into a spreadsheet to send it on.
- Send to anyone — recipient, CC, your own subject and message.
- CSV attached with every row in the current view, not just the page you're looking at.
- Or export it yourself and take the whole thing into whatever you already use.
- Installation downloads as a PDF, because it's going to a crew, not an inbox.
Nothing here is entered twice
Invoices & estimates
What you billed, what converted, and the deposits still held against work you haven't invoiced yet.
Purchase orders
Vendor commitments, payments and balances — and the delivery dates the installation report reads from.
Timelogs
Every logged hour with its billable flag and rate, which is what makes realization calculable at all.
Products & tasks
Cost and sell price on every product; estimated against actual on every task.
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Reporting, specifically answered
Is the profit & loss Workroom's number or QuickBooks'?
QuickBooks'. It's pulled live on the basis and date range you choose — accrual or cash — and stamped with when QuickBooks generated it. Workroom doesn't recalculate your books; it shows them next to the operational numbers they came from.
Can we send a report on a schedule?
Reports send on demand today: recipient, CC, subject, message and the CSV attached. If a standing monthly send is what you need, tell us on the demo — it's a common ask and it's useful to know who's asking.
Does the CSV contain everything or just the page?
Everything in the current view. Filter the report down to what you mean first, then send or export — the attachment matches the filter, not the pagination.
Can our bookkeeper see the financial reports without seeing everything?
Yes. Role-based access gives finance visibility into billing, tax and sync while designers see specs and tasks. You decide who can see margin.
What if our books are currently a mess?
Common, fixable, and honestly part of why firms switch. Onboarding includes mapping your accounts and cleaning up categories so the sync starts from solid ground rather than importing the chaos.
Run the report on your own numbers.
Bring a real month. We'll run realization, unbilled work and outstanding balances against your data and you can decide whether the figures are comfortable.