Add transparency to your retainer projects
Take the pain from managing ongoing client work and get clear visibility into daily, weekly, or monthly retainers.
Get a holistic picture of retainer periods
Stay on top of how and where you spend costs from retainer fees. Gain a comprehensive panorama of all your retained periods, so you can analyze and compare the financial performance on locked periods and plan rationally in the future. Roll over the unused target to the next period on a retainer.
Visualize retainers in your project plan
Focus your time and resources on long-term goals. Divide retained periods into milestones and tasks. Predict delivery dates, assign roles and people, and benefit from the AI helping you estimate the tasks.
Spot anomalies before they hurt the target
Keep tabs on the quality and quantity of services you provide to the client. Get visibility into how much work has been completed for each retainer period to ensure nothing goes off at half-clock and you don’t over- or under-service the client.
Streamline the retainer billing process
Automatically invoice work in progress on a retainer based on the time entries. With time-tracking in place and real-time dashboards tied to each period, you have a detailed and transparent view of the workflow.
Read more about project accountingMake retainers part of the bigger picture
Whether it's a retainer, fixed price, time & material, or non-billable project, Forecast provides you with the flexibility to manage them all side by side. This gives you a clear view of how each project affects the pipeline so you can budget your team’s time accordingly.
Read more about resource managementPredict income and measure retainer value
Predict the source for regular income and clearly follow where the money is earned. The interconnectivity across all billing types allows you to closely follow how retainer projects support sustainable growth and lower risks from running solely on one billing type or the other.
Read more about financial reportingPutting the power of AI to work for you
Our advance AI technology enables intelligent recommendations so you can be more proactive.
Risk warnings
Team focus
Predictable execution
Financial control
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What our customers say
"What Retainers in Forecast have taught us is that there’s a better way of knowing how the hours your consultants dedicate to the client are spent.”
Rasmus Frølund ThomsenCOO & Founding Partner, Kvantum -
What our customers say
"Forecast seamlessly integrates with Jira and provides us with transparency and a real-time overview of our developers."
Jurij PfeifferHead of Development, Nexus United