Packages, day rates, and retainers — scoped, booked,
and paid through one professional link.
Free for 6 Months — No Credit Card • Market Rate Advisor • Ready in Minutes
Graphic design has spent two decades being sold by the hour, which is precisely the wrong unit for it. A logo that takes three hours because the designer has twenty years of judgement is worth more, not less, than one that took thirty — and hourly billing punishes exactly the expertise clients are paying for. The other structural problem is revisions. Design feedback is subjective and effectively infinite, and without a defined number of rounds written into the quote, a project can absorb three times the work it was priced for while every individual request sounds entirely reasonable.
The billing structures this trade actually uses — and what each one means for getting paid. Every one of them can sit on a single rate card.
Logos, brand identities, marketing collateral.
Prices the outcome rather than the hours, which is what the client is actually buying.
Every project.
The main protection against scope creep in a subjective discipline.
Ongoing design for a business.
Predictable income and no repeated quoting.
Compressed deadlines.
Urgency displaces other work and should be priced as such.
The payment problems specific to this trade, and what actually fixes each one.
Hourly billing penalises experience — the faster and better you get, the less you earn for the same result.
Fixed project pricing sells the outcome, so expertise raises your effective rate instead of lowering it.
Endless revisions. Every request sounds small and the project has quietly tripled in scope.
State the included rounds and price additional ones as a bookable add-on.
Deposits are frequently skipped for smaller projects, which is where non-payment concentrates.
A deposit before work starts, whatever the project size.
RateCards turns your link into your storefront — packages scoped, deposits collected, and payment handled before the work starts.2
Send a clear package with deliverables and price. The client approves, pays the deposit in one tap, and you start with money in hand.
✓ Deposit Before You StartFlat-price the standard package, day-rate the shoots and sprints, retainer the ongoing work. Price it the way graphic designers actually bill.
✓ Project · Day Rate · RetainerLogos, brand kits, collateral, and design retainers — all listed with clear prices. Clients see exactly what you offer and book without the back-and-forth.
✓ Unlimited ServicesInstagram, your portfolio, your email signature — one link everywhere. Clients pick a package and book without the back-and-forth DMs.
✓ One Link, Every PlatformSell monthly design retainers as recurring services. Predictable monthly income between the one-off projects.3
✓ Automated Retainer BillingMessage clients from your dashboard — briefs, revisions, delivery dates — without chasing threads across five apps.
✓ Built-In Client MessagingRateCards puts the power of artificial intelligence in the hands of graphic designers — not just big corporations.
Describe what you do and AI builds your profiles and rate cards in seconds — your services, prices, and descriptions ready to share.
Stop guessing what to charge. Benchmark your rates against real market data so you win jobs — without leaving money on the table.
Never miss a client again. The AI Voice Receptionist answers your calls 24/7, quotes from your rate cards and books the job while you're on site.
Three steps. That’s it.
Add your services and pricing in minutes. No tech skills needed.
Text it, post it, or print it — customers open it on any device instantly.
They book and pay. You show up and do the work. Money in your account.
One link in every bio, every post, every text — wherever your clients already find you.
Free for 6 months. No credit card required.
Everything your customers need to pay you —
nothing they have to figure out.
Free for 6 months. No credit card required.
Retainers on auto-bill turned my feast-or-famine months into a baseline I can plan on.
RateCards is a booking and payment link for Graphic Designers: list your services and prices on one page, take bookings and deposits, and get paid by card through Stripe — no website, no app, no code. Free to start, and most providers are set up in minutes. See how RateCards works or explore every feature.
Fixed project pricing generally serves designers better. Hourly billing means that as your judgement improves and you work faster, you earn less for the same outcome — which is the opposite of how expertise should be rewarded.
Specify the included rounds in the quote and list additional rounds as their own priced service. Attaching a price and a booking step to the next round changes the conversation without you having to refuse anything.
Yes. A recurring monthly charge for an agreed scope gives you predictable income and saves quoting each individual piece of work.
With RateCards.app, clients pay directly through your link — no invoices, no chasing. Payment is processed through Stripe and typically arrives in your account fast.1
It’s a simple page listing your services and prices where clients can book and pay quickly — like your own mini storefront.1
Yes. Collect a deposit at booking and the balance on delivery — no more finishing work and hoping the invoice gets paid.
No. They open your link in any browser on any device and pay in seconds — no download required.
Yes. Logos, brand kits, collateral, and design retainers — add every service you offer, all on one profile.
Yes. Tipping is built in and optional for every job — one tap at checkout.4
Put the link in your bio, portfolio, and email signature — clients book from wherever they find you.
Starter is free for your first 6 months — no credit card required. After that it’s $5/mo billed annually ($60 a year) or $7/mo billed monthly. Solo is $24/mo billed annually ($288 a year) or $29/mo monthly, and Business is $119/mo billed annually ($1,428 a year) or $149/mo monthly. See the full breakdown on the RateCards pricing page.
Two, and both are flat percentages of the listed price. A 5.5% service fee is deducted from your payout — that rate is all-inclusive, so Stripe’s processing costs are absorbed within it rather than charged to you separately.7 A 5.5% client booking fee is added to your client’s total at checkout.7 Solo cuts your service fee by 20% and Business by 30%; the client booking fee stays 5.5%. Every rate is listed on the pricing page.
RateCards gives graphic designers one shareable link where clients see services and prices, book, and pay by card through Stripe. This page covers how the trade prices its work — fixed project price, defined revision rounds, monthly retainer, and rush fee — and the payment problems specific to it: hourly billing penalising experience, endless revisions, and skipped deposits on small projects. Deposits, recurring billing, tips, and a print-ready QR code are built in, and clients need no app or account. Free to start.
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Create Your Rate Cards →Starter is free for your first 6 months — no credit card required. $5/mo billed annually after that.7