Where consultancies start with Bitmap.
The product is the same in every case. What differs is which problem brought you here — and which one you have to fix first.
A day-rate consultancy that has outgrown its spreadsheet
You sell days, and you know roughly who is on what. The spreadsheet that holds it has stopped scaling, and month-end proves it.
- Budgets, plan and timesheets against the same records
- Who is free, and when, without asking around
- Utilisation on the first of the month, not the fifteenth
An agency running retainers and fixed-price work
You sell fixed prices, monthly retainers and managed services as well as days. Each is priced, delivered and invoiced differently, and no tool you have shows them side by side.
- Contract types for how the work is actually sold
- Payment schedules that raise themselves on the milestone or the month
- Which engagements make money, and which are subsidised
A finance team that wants month-end to take an afternoon
Month-end is a reconciliation across timesheets, proposals and the accounts package, and deferred income is a number nobody can produce on demand.
- Invoices fall due on their own and raise into Xero
- Deferred income at any date, per project and in total
- The board figures on the first, from the same records
None of these quite it?
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