You Became a Designer to Create Beautiful Spaces,
not manage spreadsheetsStop juggling tools and explaining budget overruns. Start creating the client experience your designs deserve.
Mortar connects everything — budgets, selections, client approvals, team collaboration — in one visual workspace. No more spreadsheets, Pinterest boards, and email chaos. Just smooth projects that finish on budget with clients who rave about working with you.
Your creative brain wasn't built for this
You can visualize a perfect room in minutes. So why does managing the project feel impossible?
Your brain works in colors and textures, not formulas
You think in mood boards, fabric swatches, and spatial relationships. But your “project management” happens in Excel cells, email threads, and sticky notes. Every day you switch between being a creative visionary and a data-entry clerk. It's exhausting — and it's killing your creativity.
Specific Pains:
- Switching between design tools and spreadsheets breaks your flow
- Budget calculations interrupt creative decisions
- Administrative tasks eat up design time
This isn't what you signed up for when you became a designer
You went to design school to create beautiful spaces that transform how people live and work. You started your studio to build something meaningful. But somewhere along the way, you became a spreadsheet manager who designs on the side.
Your clients deserve better. Your creativity deserves better. You deserve better.
What if your tools worked like your creative brain?
Mortar thinks visually, connects everything, and keeps the big picture clear — just like you do. Finally, software that enhances your creativity instead of killing it.
See budgets the way you see design — visually
Forget spreadsheet cells and formulas. See budgets as visual progress bars, color-coded alerts, and intuitive dashboards. Your clients watch totals update in real time as you make selections together. No more “let me calculate this and get back to you.” No more surprise sticker shock.
Key Features:
- Visual budget tracking with progress indicators
- Real-time cost updates as items are selected
- Color-coded warnings before budget limits
- Client-friendly displays they actually understand
It's not just about better tools — it's about getting back to why you became a designer
Mortar doesn't just organize your projects; it organizes your creative process. When the business side runs smoothly, your creativity flows freely. When clients understand and trust your process, they give you creative freedom.
When your tools work together, you work at your best.
This is what happens when software understands designers
Every feature was built for visual thinkers who value beautiful experiences. Every workflow was designed for people who care about craft and client relationships. Every detail was considered by people who know that how something works is just as important as what it does.
Built so designers get their evenings back
- 0
- Apps your clients have to install
- 1
- Shared workspace for budgets, selections & orders
- 14-day
- Free trial, no credit card required
- $15
- Cap on bank-transfer payment fees
We're the newest tool in the category — so we'd rather show you than tell you.
No inflated numbers, no invented reviews. Load a real project into the trial: paste a product URL, watch the budget update, open the portal your client would see. You'll know within a week whether Mortar fits the way your studio works.
Features
Budgets that make sense to human brains
Forget spreadsheet cells and formulas. See budgets as visual progress bars, color-coded alerts, and intuitive dashboards. Your clients watch totals update in real time as you make selections together. No more “let me calculate this and get back to you.” No more surprise sticker shock.
Benefits:
- Progress bars and color-coding instead of confusing numbers
- Real-time updates as selections are made
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Pricing that makes sense for creative businesses
Mortar
One plan. Everything included.
$59per user / month
Start Free Trial- Unlimited projects
- Visual budget tracking
- Branded client portals & approvals
- Product sourcing & web clipper
- Supplier quote requests & order tracking
- Invoicing & client payments
- Spreadsheet import with column mapping
- No onboarding fee — fully self-serve
Payment fees, published
Every rate, including our share. On this page — not buried in a help doc. No other tool in this category does that.
- Card payments
- 3.3% + 30¢
Stripe's 2.9% + 30¢, plus Mortar's 0.4%
- Bank transfer
- 0.4%
min $1 · capped at $15 — the cap kicks in above $3,750
Worked example
Your client pays a $10,000 invoice by bank transfer. The total fee is $15 — capped, no matter how large the invoice. On a card, the same invoice is $330.30.
Australian studios: from 1 October 2026, card surcharging is banned in Australia, so card-fee pass-through to clients isn't available for AU merchants. Bank-transfer fee pass-through is unaffected.
Every payment fee, published. Card 3.3% + 30¢. Bank 0.4%, capped at $15 — including our share
On the pricing page, not buried in a help doc. No tool in this category does that. We think it's how it should work.
Ready to feel like a designer again?
Join the interior designers who stopped drowning in spreadsheets and started creating the client experiences their work deserves.
- 14-day free trial, no credit card required
- Set up in an afternoon — fully self-serve
- Cancel anytime