How design practices actually get paid.

A field guide to raising compliant professional-services invoices from an Indian design practice, including SAC classification, place-of-supply logic and how retention interacts with tax.

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Structuring architectural fee schedules by stage, tying invoices to sign-offs rather than calendar months, and handling revisions without renegotiating from scratch.

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Making time tracking survive in a creative practice: what to measure, how granular to go, and how to convert hours into fee decisions rather than surveillance.

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A method for calculating true per-project profit in a design practice, including staff cost rates, overhead allocation, consultant pass-throughs and the effect of unbilled retention.

8 min read