The most dopamine-producing moment in a creative project is also the most fragile one: the handoff between "they said yes" and "they actually paid." You send a proposal in an app, a contract PDF that goes back and forth, an invoice in another tool. Every time something needs to be adjusted, it's another email and another day of waiting.

I wanted those three things to feel like one thing. So in Chord, they are.

One private link, three steps

You send the client a single link. On that one screen they accept the proposal, e-sign the agreement, and pay the invoice — in that order, at their own pace. No new logins, no "can you resend the contract?", no wondering which inbox the signed copy is in. Each step simply reveals the next.

And if they want revisions at the proposal level or contract level, they can do so at the click of a button, and you receive the requested changes in your dashboard. You amend, send the new version, and they accept.

A Chord proposal with priced package options a client can accept online
Priced options the client accepts in their portal — the first link in the chain.

Each step knows about the last

This is the part that quietly saves hours. Because the proposal, contract and invoice share the same client and the same numbers, you're never re-typing details or reconciling three versions of a figure. Accept a proposal and the agreement is already populated. Sign the agreement and the invoice is ready. We even have a smart-token naming system for your proposals, agreements, and invoices, so you don't even have to name them, and all of them are easily searchable by your client or yourself in future.

A Chord invoice the client can pay from the same portal
The invoice is the last link — payable by card, bank transfer or a QR, from the same place they signed.

No stage left in limbo

Because it all lives in one place, you can always see exactly where a client is: sent, seen, accepted, signed, paid. No more "did they get it?" spiralling. And when money's involved, you get paid your way — card via Stripe, a bank transfer, a PayNow or Wise QR — with Chord taking no cut of what you invoice. It's your money; the tool just gets it to you sooner.

Why the chain matters

Any decent CRM for creatives can hold a proposal, a contract and an invoice. The difference is whether they're three documents you shepherd between apps, or three steps of one flow that carries the client along for you. The second one closes faster, chases less, and — not nothing — makes a studio of one feel unmistakably professional at the exact moment the client is deciding whether to trust you.