How we think about itPro

Know which work is worth doing

Billable totals, internal cost, margins, and budgets tied to the boards where work happens — so you stop rebuilding the same numbers in a spreadsheet every Friday.

Live example: A live board Costs tab

Change hours or bill rate on a card. Billable, margin, and budget update from the same local dataset.

Costs

Website launch · Northstar Studio

Economics visibility

Billable (MTD)

€5,040

Internal spendMax

€2,730

MarginMax

45.8%

Budget (internal)Max€2,730 / €4,000

By card

Edit hours or bill rate · figures update immediately

Discovery & workshops

Internal €65/h

€1,440

Design sprint (brand)

Internal €65/h

€960

Build (checkout flow)

Internal €65/h

€2,640
Card· Hours· €/h· Billable

€8,420

Revenue this month

Rates where work lives

Set board defaults and per-member overrides once; every logged hour uses them.

72%

Work completed

Live board economics

Month-to-date billable, spend, and margin on the board Costs tab.

FLAMNS
TeamFull workspace
ClientSelected board
Customer preview

Optional estimated billable preview for clients — without opening your books.

Brief
Plan
Review
Launch
Budgets on Max

Internal cost, margin, budgets, and overrun alerts when engagements get complex.

BIH2
[[Website launch]]
Exports upward

Organisation rollups and CSV when finance needs the raw rows.

Call notes

Website launch

Into invoicing

When work is ready to bill, Saku Invoicing keeps the same client story.

Rates once, reuse them everywhere

Define default bill rates for a board and override per member when someone’s commercial terms differ. When people log time on cards, those rates estimate the customer-facing billable position as the month progresses.

On Pro and Max you can turn on a customer-facing view of estimated billable work. Clients see enough to trust the engagement; they do not see internal cost or margin unless you explicitly expose that on Max for trusted collaborators.

Keep internal reality separate when you need to

Max adds internal cost, margin, budgets, and alerts so you can watch spend against a ceiling while still talking to the customer in billable language. That split matters for fixed-fee, blended rate, or mixed senior and junior time on one board.

Organisation-level rollups and CSV export on Max help you answer finance without manually stitching boards together. When the work is ready to bill, Saku Invoicing keeps invoice and payment status connected to the same customer story.

Project economics by plan

Free keeps time tracking honest. Pro is where customer work and money meet. Max adds internal cost, budgets, and exports for complex engagements.

Free

  • Time tracking on cards
  • No financial rollups

Pro

Pro
  • Per-member bill rates
  • Billable totals & customer preview

Max

Max
  • Internal cost & margin
  • Budgets & alerts
  • CSV export

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