Help centre Answers from the people who built it.

Every item is scored blocked, at risk, watching or OK. The score comes from the supplier lead time, the date the piece has to be on site, and the order-by date those two imply. It moves the moment a lead time or the install date changes.

Clip a product from any supplier's website with the web clipper, or add trade-only and bespoke pieces by hand. The price, finish and dimensions land on the line for you to check, and you add the lead time.

Once the client approves a selection in the portal, you raise the purchase order from it, in the supplier’s currency with the VAT carried through and synced to Xero. The specification and the order stay one record, so they cannot drift apart.

Product, supplier, quantity, unit and total price, status, client approval, the purchase order and billing steps (created, sent, paid), logistics, ETA, lead time, required-by date, order-by date, tracking number and contractor access.

You plan in phases on a visual timeline that covers the design stages and the install. Phases are yours to name, reorder and reuse, and budget, tasks, orders and milestones update as the work moves.

Drawing packages are versioned and move through a five-stage approval. They are shared with contractors from the project, so the version a trade builds from is the version you signed off.

Yes. Start a timer on any task and the hours roll into time tracking and on to billing.

Yes. Invoices and purchase orders raised in a project go to Xero with their VAT treatment intact, and payment status comes back, so a paid invoice shows as paid on the project. The sync is included on every plan.

Estimates, purchase orders and invoices carry UK VAT on each line, and the same VAT position carries through to Xero. Techstyles keeps the project and the books in step; it does not file your VAT return.

Yes. The studio has a default currency and each project its own. A purchase order stays in the supplier’s currency; an invoice converts each line into the project currency at that day’s rate and freezes it, so a later swing never changes an issued invoice. Xero receives each document in its own currency.

Yes. An approved estimate becomes an invoice in one click, with its lines and VAT already on it. It appears in the client portal with its status and a PDF.

Everything except the accounting sync, which is Xero only today. QuickBooks, Sage and FreeAgent are on the list, with no date we would ask you to plan around.

No. A link from you opens their project directly. Clients who prefer a password can sign in with one, and each client only ever reaches their own project.

Selections are grouped by room. For each piece the client can approve it, send it back for review, reject it, or say they will order it themselves. Review and reject ask for a reason, and the decision is recorded against the item with the date.

A dashboard, procurement, finances, documents, drawings and messages. Procurement, documents and messages can be switched off per project. Invoices show their status and download as a PDF.

No. Clients are not seats: invite every client on every project at no charge.

No. The portal opens in a browser on a phone or laptop. Trades sign in with an email and password, or with a six-character access code you give them.

The drawings, files and items you share with them, and a conversation with the studio. Prices, budgets and margins are never shown to a trade.

Every drawing carries its revision and issue date. A trade can raise an issue on an item or request a revision with a written reason. When you issue the new drawing, the earlier one is marked superseded and kept in the history.

Yes. Each trade uploads their public liability insurance and trade certificate with the expiry dates. Each document shows as valid, expiring soon, expired or missing.

Atelier, the Techstyles assistant, answers questions about any project (what is late, what is unpaid, who is overloaded), drafts client and supplier emails and proposes changes you confirm. Alongside it: a daily brief each morning, inbox summaries from Gmail, meeting notes from a recording or transcript, procurement risk insights, and Smart Fill in the Product Clipper.

No. Atelier drafts emails for you to copy and send yourself; it never sends them. Changes to tasks, order dates, purchase orders and invoices happen only when you confirm, and suggested tasks become real only when you accept them.

Yes. Atelier is a chat inside Techstyles that answers from your own project records. It remembers each conversation, so a follow-up question keeps its context.

No. Your data is never sold and never used to train AI models.

No, it is included. Atelier, meeting notes and Smart Fill draw on a monthly AI allowance; the daily brief, inbox summaries and risk insights do not.

Each of your first five users is £49 a month, and each user from the sixth is £39, excluding VAT. You pay only for active users and can add or remove them at any time. Annual billing is available.

The trial includes every module and needs no card. Afterwards, add a card to carry on with everything kept as it is. If you do nothing you are not charged: the account pauses, and you can still sign in to export your data.

Yes. We move your projects, contacts, suppliers and product library for you, and set your team up before you rely on it.

Schedules, projects, contacts and invoices export as CSV or PDF at any time, including after you leave. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest and handled under UK GDPR. There is no contract: pay monthly and cancel any time.