Fee and Procurement, Side by Side
Track design fee and supplier costs against the same project without one masking the true performance of the other.
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Interior design is unusual — you earn from your time and from what you procure, while the brief keeps moving. Here is where the profit tends to leak away.
Designers did not join a studio to fill in forms. Arcprojects.io keeps time entry quick and works from any browser, so the commercial picture stays accurate without swallowing the hours you would rather spend designing.
Structure each project the way your studio works — concept, developed design, procurement, installation — and see fee against cost at every stage. Design time and procured goods are tracked separately, so you always know which side of the business is actually earning.
Track design fee and supplier costs against the same project without one masking the true performance of the other.
Take only the modules you need. A two-person residential studio and a commercial fit-out practice both fit.
Pick what suits your studio. Everything shares data, so an hour logged or a supplier order raised flows through to cost, margin, and invoice on its own.
Designers log hours against concept, developed design, procurement, or installation from any browser. Sourcing and client meetings get captured too, so nothing billable slips through.
Run fixed fees, hourly work, or a mix on the same project. Rate cards charge a senior designer differently from a junior automatically, with no side spreadsheet to maintain.
Raise purchase orders for furniture, fabrics, lighting, and joinery. Committed cost attaches to the project the moment you order, not when the supplier invoice finally arrives.
Build and issue client quotations for design work and specified goods, then convert accepted proposals into live projects without retyping the scope or the numbers.
Log revisions beyond the agreed rounds as additional services. When the hours are already recorded against the change, asking the client to pay for it stops being an awkward conversation.
Invoice deposits, stage payments, and final balances straight from approved time and agreed fees — so cash comes in alongside the work rather than long after it.
Interactive Gantt charts show who is on which project across a busy portfolio. Spot the week where three installations collide while you can still move something.
Keep enquiries, consultations, and past clients in one place. Referrals and repeat work are the lifeblood of a design studio, so nothing should get lost in an inbox.
See actual against estimated hours and true margin per project, split between design fee and procurement — the evidence that turns your next quote into a calculation.
Most studios only learn a project lost money once the last invoice is out and the photographs are done. Arcprojects.io updates as time is approved and orders are raised, so you can act while the scheme is still on the board.
Watch how much of each stage fee the design hours have consumed, so the third revision round triggers a conversation rather than a write-off.
Across fifteen live projects, see instantly which need attention this week and which designers are stretched too thin.
Real figures on what a comparable scheme took to deliver let you price with confidence instead of hoping the fee stretches.
If your studio runs several schemes at once and earns from both design work and procurement, these will feel familiar.
You charge fixed design fees, hourly, or both You earn margin on furniture and finishes Several schemes run at different stages at once Extra revision rounds rarely get invoiced Supplier deposits and lead times need tracking Sourcing hours vanish from your timesheets True project profit is only clear at the endArcprojects.io works for residential interior designers running multiple private clients, commercial and workplace practices delivering office fit-outs, and hospitality specialists working across hotels, bars, and restaurants — as well as retail and multi-site rollout teams.
It suits studios that offer full turnkey delivery including procurement just as well as those providing design and specification only. Because design fee and supplier costs are tracked separately, you can see exactly which side of your service is carrying the business.
The platform is modular, so a solo designer might run on timesheets, quotations, and invoicing alone, while a larger practice adds purchase orders, scheduling, CRM, and full reporting. What you pay reflects what you use, and it changes as the studio grows.
Working alongside architects on the same schemes? See Arcprojects.io for architects, or book a demo and we will use your own projects and fee structures.
What interior designers ask most often before moving their studio onto Arcprojects.io.
Start a free 30-day trial with full access, free data migration, and training for your studio — or book a demo and we will walk through the platform using your own schemes, fees, and suppliers.