Charge with confidence, make more money!
Taop helps you to master The Art Of Pricing for creative work.
Get paid for value instead of time!
Charging your creative work for time is a trap! Taop helps you to master The Art Of Pricing for the sizing of the problem that you are solving and the value that you are generating for your client.
Overview of active projects, deals progress, and monthly income stats
Interactive Dashboard
Get a bird's-eye view of your business metrics, recent activities, deals progress, and monthly income statistics in one elegant screen.
Overview of active projects, deals progress, and monthly income stats
Estimate Calculator
Calculate the value of your creative work based on the size of the problem that you are solving, your professional profile and the value that you are generating for your client.
Set options like usage and urgency to calculate a fair value-based price
Deals Pipeline
Never lose a client! Send counter-proposals, keep track of all negotiations with your client and close the best deal for both.
Track all deals in progress, sent estimates, and negotiations in a visual kanban pipeline
Brands
Have more than one profession or brand? Create as many brands as you want and send personalized estimates using each one of them.
Manage multiple professional brands, custom settings, and templates from a single profile
Template Builder
Design during the week and photography on the weekends? Create custom estimate templates for each brand that you offer services.
Build customizable starting layouts, structure elements, and options for each client segment
AI Contract Generator
Use AI to create contracts with the approved project and budget information, all done automatically.
Instantly generate creative services agreements using project data and client profile details
Contract Signing
Stop paying for external contract signing services! Send contracts to your client to sign, everything digitally and within the Taop platform.
List active agreements and client sign-off status
Project Approvals
Send project files for approval, keep track of changes, approvals and rejections, and send final deliverables to the client.
Client review panel for files delivery, feedback logs, and final asset approval requests
Metrics Data Visualization
Have total control of your business through numbers. Easily visualize your metrics of revenue, new projects, clients and more.
Detailed charts displaying closed deals per month, invoicing history, and total revenue
Compass Market Benchmark
Compare your rates and terms against real market data in your region. Price your services with absolute confidence based on local cohorts.
Interactive global freelancer pricing comparisons
Kanban Project Boards
Manage visual production workflows with custom task columns, priorities, and comment history built specifically for designers.
Production workflows with task details, priority labels, and comments log
Automated Invoicing & Schedules
Set up deposit and milestone invoicing schedules mapped automatically to your estimates. Get paid faster with auto-sent reminders.
Milestone payment schedules, auto-generated PDFs, and installment status tracking
Built for how creative professionals actually work
Stop losing revenue to underpricing, unbilled scope creep, and chaotic client approvals. Taop gives you the structure to price with authority and protect every hour.
Designers (Graphic, UI/UX, Product)
Stop underpricing out of fear. Price with authority and win high-ticket clients.
Most designers undercharge because they lack benchmark clarity, fearing they'll lose the client. Ironically, low rates signal low quality—driving premium clients to expensive agencies.
Taop replaces guesswork with intelligent pricing calculators and studio-grade estimate templates. Position yourself as a high-standard partner, quote with total confidence, and manage clients from pitch to paid invoice.
- AI Fair Price Calculator & market benchmarks
- Agency-grade estimate templates justifying your value
- Integrated client CRM, contracts, and instant invoicing
Illustrators & Concept Artists
Protect your licensing rights, lock in sketch milestones, and end unbilled redraws.
Illustrators often sell custom artwork without defining commercial usage rights, allowing clients to exploit artwork on merchandise without royalties. Moreover, clients requesting structural changes during final color rendering force hours of unpaid redrawing.
Taop separates creation fees from commercial licensing rights with legally solid contract terms. Milestone approval workflows lock down initial rough sketches before you ink and color, making late structural changes billable automatically.
- Custom commercial licensing terms (territory, duration, medium)
- Milestone approval gates (Rough Sketch → Line Art → Final Color)
- Protected watermarked artwork proofs & deposit protection
Architects & Spatial Planners
Stop doing three projects for the price of one. Lock in scope and get paid for every change.
Architects frequently close fixed-rate square-footage deals, only to absorb hundreds of unbilled hours across endless blueprint iterations, 3D renders, and unrecorded client change requests.
Taop secures your milestones with formal deliverable approval gates and automatic change audits. Easily compare new client requests against signed contracts, record every revision, and bill for scope expansions with confidence.
- Audit-logged blueprint & 3D render approval portal
- Automatic contract-vs-request scope comparison
- Milestone-locked payments and seamless change orders
Interior Designers
Keep creative concepts, endless revisions, and procurement budgets profitable.
Balancing aesthetic vision with client indecision, moodboard revisions, and procurement budgets is exhausting. Unbilled scope creep quietly eats away your design fee before purchasing even begins.
Taop gives interior designers visual milestone sign-offs for moodboards and layouts, instant change-order pricing for new client requests, and margin-protected invoicing so you never absorb costs out of pocket.
- Visual moodboard & layout approval workflows
- Real-time margin control on procurement & design fees
- Instant change order generation for client adjustments
Photographers
Tamper-proof proofing, effortless photo upselling, and zero storage markup fees.
Post-shoot proofing is messy: clients screenshot unretouched proofs, demand extra edits without paying, and third-party gallery platforms drain your profits with recurring storage fees.
Connect your Google Drive or Dropbox directly to Taop with zero storage markups. Send clients a sleek portal with unremovable watermarks, upsell extra retouched photos effortlessly, and run re-engagement promos years later.
- Protected, unremovable watermarked proofing gallery
- Direct Google Drive & Dropbox connection (no storage fees)
- 1-click extra photo purchases & automated client re-promos
Tattoo Artists
Lock in custom design approvals and guaranteed payments before the needle touches skin.
Tattooers lose unpaid hours redrawing custom flash over WhatsApp, juggling multi-session schedules across fragmented apps, and facing non-paying clients after the ink is already done.
Taop unifies your entire booking flow. Send custom artwork for formal client sign-off before session day, secure non-refundable deposits, and provide structured multi-session contracts so your craft is always protected.
- Pre-session digital design approval & revision tracker
- Session-based estimates & non-refundable deposit agreements
- Unified client portal replacing scattered DMs and docs
Easy peasy, from start to end.
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Fair Pricing Calculator
Calculate a fair price for your creative work.
- Create your Business Profile with operational costs, desired income and other metrics
- Create one or multiple brands for different types of services you offer (design, photography, illustration, etc.)
- Use a brand to create estimates, projects and contracts
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Estimate
Create professional estimates that win clients.
- Calculate the budget based on your context and the value you generate for your client
- Send the estimate with a unique link to your client accessed via authentication code
- The client can accept or negotiate the estimate with you
- Closed deal, time to generate a contract!
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Contract
Generate and sign contracts with AI assistance.
- Generate the contract with AI using the estimate data
- Send the contract to the client to sign on a protected page with authentication code
- Sign the contract and send a copy to the client
- Add amendments to the contract in the future if needed
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Project
Manage your project from start to finish.
- Attach project files and send for approval
- The client registers their approval or requests changes
- At the end of the project, send a protected page with an expiration date for the client to access and download all files
- Define an expiration date for the download page
Get your survival hourly rate in 30 seconds
This quick calculator shows you the minimum you should charge to cover your basic costs. It's a reality check — not the final answer.
Get a quick estimate of your survival hourly rate
Calculate Your Survival Rate
Enter your goals below to see your minimum hourly rate.
The money in your pocket after all costs
Hours dedicated strictly to client projects
This helps us personalize your experience
A Better Way to Price Your Creative Work
Stop leaving money on the table with outdated hourly rates and scattered client tools.
| Feature | The Status Quo | The Taop Way |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing Model | Hourly rate trap. The faster you work, the less you earn. | Value-based multiplier. Charge based on client size, urgency, and project scope. |
| Client Contracts | Scattered Word docs, manual copy-pasting, and expensive e-sign subscriptions. | Auto-generated AI contracts with built-in legally-binding e-signatures. |
| Deliverable Sign-Offs | Endless unpaid revisions requested in chaotic email threads. | Structured project approval links with revision limits and client sign-off. |
| Invoices & Payments | Writing invoices from scratch and chasing clients for milestone deposits. | Milestone payment schedules auto-generated and sent as beautiful PDFs. |
| Market Rates | Guessing your worth or relying on generic, outdated salary surveys. | Compass Market Benchmarks based on actual local rate cohorts in your region. |
Pricing Model
Hourly rate trap. The faster you work, the less you earn.
Value-based multiplier. Charge based on client size, urgency, and project scope.
Client Contracts
Scattered Word docs, manual copy-pasting, and expensive e-sign subscriptions.
Auto-generated AI contracts with built-in legally-binding e-signatures.
Deliverable Sign-Offs
Endless unpaid revisions requested in chaotic email threads.
Structured project approval links with revision limits and client sign-off.
Invoices & Payments
Writing invoices from scratch and chasing clients for milestone deposits.
Milestone payment schedules auto-generated and sent as beautiful PDFs.
Market Rates
Guessing your worth or relying on generic, outdated salary surveys.
Compass Market Benchmarks based on actual local rate cohorts in your region.
Take the control of your creative pricing. Start today!
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