Signed, paid, started — in that order
Look like a real business from your first client.
One page for each client, with your name on it. They read your contract and sign it, pay you by card, and see what you need from them next. It is all written for you already.
No card. Two questions. Nothing goes live until you say so.
- 2 clients free
- 5 documents included
- Your own web address
Here is what happens
Three things, and the job is properly started.
No call to book, nobody to pay to set it up. You will spend longer picking your colour than setting this up.
- 01
You send the contract
Open the one you want, change anything you like, send it. It appears on that client’s own page with your business name at the top — not buried in an email they will lose.
- 02
They sign it on their phone
They read it and type their name. We keep the time, where it came from, and a fingerprint of the exact wording they agreed to, so nobody can argue about it later.
- 03
They pay you
Send the invoice the same way. They pay by card on the same page, and the money goes straight into your own Stripe account. Now you start the work.
Nothing to write
These are already written. You just send them.
19 documents come with your portal — contracts, forms, checklists and two short guides about money. 5 documents are on the free plan, the rest on any paid one. Every word in them is yours to change, and they are starting points rather than legal advice.
Getting started
- New client questionnaireFree
- How we work togetherFree
- Brand and audience questionnaire
- New client onboarding checklist
Agreements
- Simple services agreementFree
- Monthly retainer agreement
- Mutual non-disclosure agreement
- Statement of work
- Photo and video release
- Subcontractor agreement
Money
- Payment terms and late fees
- Chasing an unpaid invoice
- Pricing your services
Running the work
- Kickoff checklistFree
- Change request
- Approval and revisions
Ending well
- How did we do?Free
- Offboarding checklist
What it costs
Free until your third client.
Every plan runs the same software. Two things grow as you pay: how many clients you can keep at once, and how much of the paperwork is already written for you.
- Free2 clients
- Free
- Starter5 clients
- $49 a month
- Unlimitedunlimited clients
- $149 a month
- Lifetimeunlimited clients
- $999 once
launch pricing · 5 documents free · 19 documents on any paid plan
- The same software on every plan, the free one included
- Your own web address, with your business name in it
- A public page for your business, in any of 10 designs — all of them on every plan
- Private storage — only you and that one client can open a file
- Invoices paid by card, straight into your own Stripe account
- A signature record with the date and a document fingerprint
The one other cost, said up front: when a client pays a bill through your portal, OurPortal takes 2% and Stripe charges its own card fee. Nothing is taken from work you bill any other way.
What a year costs either way.
Most tools like this are rented by the month, forever. Here is ours next to the cheapest plan of the best-known one. Every figure is sourced and dated on the comparison page.
| Plan | First year | Every year after |
|---|---|---|
| OurPortal Free1 seat · 2 clients | $0 | $0 |
| OurPortal Starter1 seat · 5 clients | $588 | $588 |
| OurPortal Lifetime1 seat · unlimited clients | $999 | $0 |
| Hubflo Starter1 seat · 50 clients | $804 | $804 |
If it goes wrong
Two things we promise in writing.
Both are in the Terms as well, in the same words.
The price you join at is your price.
For as long as you stay, you pay what you paid on day one. If the price goes up later, it goes up for the people who join later.
30 days to change your mind.
Your first payment on any plan, and the Lifetime purchase whenever you make it, can come back to you. You have 30 days: email and say so, and we send the money back. No form to fill in and no reason to give.
Be honest with me
This is the wrong thing to buy if…
Every line is something this genuinely cannot do. If one of them is you, do not sign up — you will be happier somewhere else, and we would rather say so now.
- 01
You have staff. We have one owner login per portal; they sell seats and internal roles.
- 02
You want an app your clients install, with push notifications. Ours is a website.
- 03
Your work runs through Gmail, HubSpot, QuickBooks, Xero or Zapier and you need the portal wired into it.
- 04
You need to text clients rather than message them inside the portal.
- 05
You want your portal on your own domain today, not on a subdomain with your business name in it.
- 06
You store a great deal per client — video, raw footage, large archives.
- 07
You want the portal to be your project manager too: boards, recurring tasks, time and expenses.
- 08
You want someone paid to set it up with you, and a named person to call afterwards.
Straight answers
The questions worth asking first.
Including the ones with an awkward answer.
Is it really free?
Yes. No card, and no clock counting down. A free portal carries 2 clients at a time and 5 documents to send them. When you need more room you pick a plan — $49 a month, or $999 once once if you would rather own it than rent it.
Do my clients have to pay for anything?
No, and they never will. Your clients open their page free, on any phone or laptop. The only money that moves between you is a bill you send them.
How do I get paid, and what do you take?
You connect your own Stripe account, so the money lands in your account — we never hold it. When a client pays through your portal we take 2%, and Stripe takes its own card fee on top. On a $1,000 bill, our share is $20. Prefer to get paid some other way? Nothing stops you, and then we take nothing at all.
What if I stop using it?
Nothing is deleted and nothing is charged again. If you were paying and you stop, your portal goes back to the free plan — every client, file and message stays exactly where it is. You just cannot add anyone new until you are back under the free limit.
Do I need to be good with computers?
No. Setting up is two questions: what your business is called, and what colour you want. Everything after that is typing into a box. If you can write an email you can run this.
Are the signatures real?
Your client types their name, and OurPortal stores the time, their IP address and a fingerprint of the exact document they agreed to — which will also show you if the wording was changed afterwards. That is enough for the everyday agreements small businesses sign. It is not a certified e-signature service, so for anything big, ask a lawyer first.
Can I use my own web address?
Not yet. Today your portal lives at your business name plus our domain, on every plan. Your own domain name is planned and is not for sale on any plan yet. We would rather say that now than let you find out after paying.
What happens to files my clients send me?
They go into private storage, not a link anyone can open. Every download is checked against who is asking: you can reach your own clients’ files, and a client can only ever reach their own.
Ready when you are
Your next client could sign tonight.
Two questions and your portal exists, with 5 documents already in it. Your first 2 clients cost nothing, for as long as you want.
No card · Two questions · Your first 2 clients are free