For jobs that live in stages
Track by stage. Bill by milestone. Keep the file.
Studio work is long, staged, and full of site visits that cost money. owntime lets you budget by RIBA stage, price a variation from real hours, and invoice when the milestone hits. One file per studio, for years.
One payment. No rent. File is yours.
Architecture — straight talk
The parts that usually go sideways.
Stage 4 eats Stage 3’s fee
Tasks under projects — Concept, Developed, Technical — each with its own bar. You watch it fill.
Site visits vanish from the bill
Photo the receipt on site. It sits as a billable expense until the next invoice.
Fee proposals live in a spreadsheet
Write the estimate line by line. If they say yes, one click and it’s an invoice. No retype.
What you’ll actually use
Just the bits you bill for.
Stages, not just projects
Concept → Handover, each stage with a budget. Long jobs finally read right.
Estimate becomes invoice
Draft the fee, send it, get a yes, convert. No second doc.
Years in one place
One file per studio, per archive. No per-seat tax for a 12-person practice.
And the rest of owntime
Timers, timesheets, invoices with tax, expenses with snaps, estimates, per-client currency, CSV you can hand to anyone — the full list.
What the client sees
A bill that looks like you wrote it.
| Description | Qty | Rate | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stage 3 — Developed Design (14 entries) | 38h | $95 | $3,610 |
| Site visit — structural review | 2h | $95 | $190 |
| Expense: Model materials | — | — | $310 |
| Total | $310 | ||
Plain lines, your letterhead, your numbers. PDF, made locally. No server in the middle.
Test it on a real week.
14 days, full app. If it doesn’t survive your busy week, don’t pay. Simple.
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