For freelancers & small studios

Run your business from one workspace.

Land clients, manage the work, and get paid online, all in one place. Vela turns tracked hours into invoices, invoices into card payments, and payments into receipts, so the busywork runs itself.

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Next move
Invoice $4,140 of unbilled time
23.5 hrs ready across 2 clients
Revenue · June+18%
$14,250
Payment received
INV-0041 · $7,800
Monday · June 1
Good morning, Maya.
Tidewater invoice is 12 days overdue
INV-0039 · $3,200. Send a reminder.
Remind
Revenue
$14.2k
Outstanding
$9.8k
Projects
4
Unbilled
$4.1k

Built for client-to-cash workflows

ClientsProjectsTasksInvoicesPaymentsFollow-ups
The cost of scattered tools

Running a business shouldn't feel like steering blind.

Leads in your inbox, hours in a spreadsheet, invoices in another app, follow-ups in your head. The work gets done, but money goes uncollected and you rarely know what actually needs you today.

Unbilled hours vanish

Billable time logged across notebooks and apps never makes it onto an invoice. That's revenue you earned and never collected.

Invoices go unpaid

No system to chase overdue payments, so they sit, quietly hurting your cash flow while you're busy doing the work.

Client context is everywhere

Emails, notes, files, and history scattered across ten places. Every project starts by hunting for what you already knew.

No clear next step

You open five tabs each morning and still aren't sure what actually moves the business forward today.

One connected flow

Every step from lead to paid, in one place.

Each stage hands off to the next on its own. A won lead becomes a project, tracked time becomes an invoice, a paid invoice becomes a receipt, and every project teaches you how to land the next one.

Lead
Client
Project
Time
Invoice
Payment
Receipt
Review
One business workspace

A business that tells you what it needs.

Every part of your business in one connected place, from the first lead to the final receipt. Each tool feeds the next, so nothing has to be re-entered, chased, or held in your head.

Leads
Clients
Projects
Tasks
Time
Invoices
Payments
Receipts
Tax summary
Reports
Follow-ups
Review & Growth
Next-action engine

Your day, already prioritized.

Vela looks across your whole business and surfaces the few things worth doing today, ranked by impact. Open it in the morning and start at the top of the list.

  • Overdue payments flagged before they hurt your cash flow
  • Unbilled work surfaced and ready to send in a click
  • Proposals, follow-ups, and reviews that need a nudge
Today in Vela
Send overdue reminder
Tidewater · $3,200
Remind →
Invoice unbilled time
$4,140 · 23.5 hrs
Create →
Follow up on proposal
Veridian · sent 5 days ago
Open →
Invoicing & payments

Send it, get paid, move on.

Tracked time becomes an invoice in a click. Clients pay by card through a secure Vela link, the receipt sends itself, and your tax summary keeps adding up in the background. The money side finally runs without you babysitting it.

  • Clients pay by card through a secure payment link
  • Receipts and tax summaries created for you
  • Draft, Sent, Overdue, and Paid clear at a glance
Paid YTD
$74.1k
Overdue
$3.2k
INV-0044
Harbor & Co
Draft
INV-0042
Lumen Health
Sent
INV-0041
Sable & Stone
Paid
Clients & inbox

Every client, fully remembered.

Far more than a contact list. Each client carries their whole story: projects, the emails you have traded, what is owed, what is still unbilled, and the one thing worth doing next. Email a client from Vela and every reply stays on their thread.

  • Email, invoices, and activity on one timeline
  • A clear next step for every relationship
  • Turn a paid project into a review request
HC
Harbor & Co
Harbor Coffee Roasters
Active
Next: invoice 9.5h of unbilled design time
Lifetime
$18,600
Unpaid
$0
Unbilled
9.5h
Connected work

Projects that stay in sync.

Scope a project once and everything stays connected to it. Tasks track what is overdue, due today, and coming up. Hours roll into budget and billing on their own, so the work and the money never drift apart.

  • Tasks grouped by overdue, due today, and upcoming
  • Budget and hours tracked against every project
  • Smart automations chase the follow-ups for you
Brand Identity System
On track
Budget
$6.4k / 12k
Hours
41 / 80h
Present logo directions
Overdue
Build type scale and tokens
Due today
Shaped around you

Mold Vela to how you work.

The important work runs the same way for everyone. How your workspace looks and lays out is yours to shape, with curated themes and layouts instead of fiddly drag-and-drop.

Vela Gold · Default
Premium dark & champagne
Vela Navy
Deep navy command center
Ivory Light
Calm, bright daytime hub
Minimal Dark
Quiet monochrome focus
Dashboard templates
Command Center · Default
Next action first, then metrics
Metrics First
Lead with the numbers
Workflow First
The pipeline up top

Clients, projects, and tasks each offer the same curated choice of layouts, so the whole workspace fits the way you think, without ever feeling cluttered.

Business workspace

Built for the way you actually work.

"I stopped losing unbilled hours the week I switched. Vela basically found me an extra few thousand dollars I'd been leaving on the table."

MC
Maya Chen
Brand designer · Northwind

"Every morning it tells me the three things that matter. I'm not drowning in tabs anymore. I just do the next thing."

DO
Daniel Okafor
Studio owner

"It finally feels like one system instead of five noisy apps, and it looks like something I'm proud to put my brand on."

RC
Renata Cruz
Consultant · Sable & Stone
Simple pricing

Start free. Grow when you're ready.

Free
$0/ month
For getting your business in order.
  • Up to 3 clients
  • Unlimited projects, tasks & invoices
  • Full core workflow · one workspace
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Premium
$18/ month
For businesses that bill regularly.
  • Unlimited clients & projects
  • Online card payments & auto receipts
  • Invoice branding, follow-ups & reminders
  • Tax summaries & exports
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Pro
$39/ month
For multi-client businesses & teams.
  • Everything in Premium
  • Multiple workspaces
  • Team seats & roles
  • Priority support
Choose Pro

Set your course
with Vela.

Spend less time chasing details and more time on the work clients pay you for. Start today and see where your business stands by tonight.

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