Features
The whole project, in one visual workspace
Mortar is project and budget management built for interior design studios — not a generic task tool with a mood board bolted on. It's built around the way a design project actually runs — rooms, selections, budgets, and orders — and it's built to be shown to clients, not hidden from them.
Here's what's inside.
CLIENT PORTAL
Your clients see everything — without learning a thing
Clients text for updates because they can't see anything. Mortar gives every client a live, branded view of their project — selections, budget, approvals, what's on order — on any device, with no tool to learn and no login lecture required. The "quick question" messages quiet down, and the version of your studio clients experience finally matches the quality of your work.
VISUAL BUDGET TRACKING
A budget you can read at a glance
Spreadsheet budgets drift — the numbers say one thing, the spec says another, and nobody notices until it costs money. Mortar's budgets are visual: progress bars, colour-coded alerts, and costs that update in real time as selections change. You know where every dollar stands, and so does your client.
PROCUREMENT & PRODUCT SOURCING
Every item, from sourced to installed
Purchasing is where design projects drown — one order status per email thread, multiplied across every room of every project. In Mortar, paste a product URL and the details capture themselves. Every item carries its price, its status, and its place in the project — and the budget updates the moment anything changes. Install day stops being a treasure hunt.
APPROVALS & CHANGE TRACKING
Stop chasing yes's through email threads
"Did they approve the sofa?" shouldn't require an archaeology dig through your inbox. In Mortar, clients approve selections in the portal, and every decision and change is recorded with a history you can point to. When someone says "I never signed off on that," you have the receipt — dated, in writing, in one place.
TEAM COLLABORATION
Get the project out of your head
The first hire is the moment the system in your head stops working. Mortar gives your whole studio one shared picture of every project — who's doing what, what changed and when, which supplier quotes are still outstanding — with a running history of what changed and when, so handoffs run on the record instead of on memory.
MOOD BOARDS & PRESENTATION
Boards your clients can say yes to
Mood boards live where the project lives — not in a separate app your budget has never heard of. Clients browse a Pinterest-style board view in their portal and can approve items straight from the board, and any board can leave the building as a clean tearsheet PDF when a supplier or contractor needs one.
See it with a real project in it
Screenshots only say so much. Start a trial and open a project that looks like yours — budgets, orders, portal and all. Pricing is $59 per user, per month, with unlimited projects — and payment fees (3.3% + 30¢ card, 0.4% bank capped at $15), including our share of them, are published on the pricing page.
Ready to feel like a designer again?
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