Backbone for agencies & studios

The back office for your agency. Time, clients, invoices, receipts and reports in one workspace.

Your team logs its hours, Backbone turns them into invoices at each client's rate, follows up on late payments and keeps the books ready for your bookkeeper. Billy takes the routine work, so the hours go to clients, not admin.

Studio from €29, Agency from €49 per month. 7 days free, card required. €0.00 due today.

Built for how agencies work. A team, many clients, retainers and a bookkeeper, all in the same place.

Team time

Everyone on one timesheet.

Log time where you work. Start a timer or log hours in the app, or tell your AI tool through the connector. Every entry lands on a client and project.

A weekly target per person. Switch from your own week to the team's and see who is busy and who has room, against what they planned.

Everyone sees what they need. Your team works on their own hours, and you decide who sees rates and the team's numbers.

Time tracking

Retainers & budgets

Budgets that tell you early.

A retainer and target hours per client. The Budget column fills as your team logs time, so you see who is close to the limit.

A heads-up while there is still time. Hours above the target are flagged as over the retainer, so you can talk to the client or bill them extra.

Pitches kept apart. Work on a pitch is tracked like any other, without mixing into your active clients.

Clients & projects

Invoicing

From the team's hours to a paid invoice.

Hours become invoice lines. On a new invoice, Add hours from Time lists the client's open hours. Tick what belongs on it and the lines appear at the client's rate.

Checked before it goes out. Backbone lists missing mandatory details while you write, with a one-click fix.

Reminders on your schedule. When an invoice is overdue, friendly reminders and dunning letters go out on the schedule you set.

Invoices & quotes

Reports

See what each client is worth.

Retainer against hours. The profitability report puts each client's retainer next to target and actual hours. Hours, invoices and expenses already live in one place, so there is no spreadsheet to build.

Utilisation and revenue next to it. The same Reports page shows how busy the team is and what came in.

Share it or export it. Share a report or download it as CSV. Profitability and utilisation come with the Agency plan.

Reports

Billy

Billy takes the routine work.

Ask like you would ask a colleague. Which clients went over their retainer, who hasn't paid, how many hours are not invoiced yet. Billy answers from your workspace.

Tell it what to do. Log time, draft the month's invoices, find a receipt. In English or German.

Nothing goes out without you. Billy asks before anything is sent.

Billy, your AI assistant
BillyYour workspace

Which clients went over their retainer in September?

  • Over the retainer Nordlicht GmbH · 23.5 of 20 h · 3.5 h over
  • Within the retainer Kinetik Studio · 36.5 of 40 h · Alpenrad · 12 of 15 h

Shall I add Nordlicht's 3.5 extra hours to a draft invoice?

Ask Billy

Agency questions

Time tracking for the whole team, clients with rates, budgets and retainers, invoices and quotes, reminders and dunning, receipts, the export for your bookkeeper, and reports. Billy, the AI assistant, works across all of it.

You decide. By default your team works on their own hours and receipts. Rates, retainers and the team's numbers become visible to someone only if you give them access.

Set a retainer and target hours per month on a client. Hours inside the target count as covered by the retainer; hours above it show as “over retainer”, so you can bill them extra. You can still add any hours from Time to an invoice.

Yes. One bookkeeper per workspace gets their own login without using up a paid seat. They can read everything and work on bookkeeping and exports, but cannot change sales documents or settings.

Studio for a small team, Agency for the whole agency. Agency adds the profitability and utilisation reports. The plans differ in people and volume, not in what Backbone can do; the exact allowances are on the pricing page.

Yes, with Studio and Agency. Each workspace has its own clients, team, numbering and settings.

From the web app and through the AI connector today. A Mac menu bar timer is on the way.Coming soon

Run your agency's back office in one place.

Agency

Recommended

For agencies that want room for every person and project.

€49per month

VAT included · billed monthly

  • Your whole agency
  • Everything in Studio
  • The highest allowances
  • Profitability and utilisation reports
  • APIComing soon
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