Everything you need to run your business well.

When you sign in, the dashboard greets you with the date, the time of day, and a one-sentence read on your business: "You've billed $X this month and collected $Y. Nothing is overdue, N drafts waiting." That sentence is the whole picture in one line.

Below it, four KPI cards: Billed (month-to-date), Received, Outstanding (with overdue count), and Net Income. The Outstanding card flips to a dark featured treatment when you have unpaid invoices, it's your loudest "do something" cue.

Under the cards, a 7-day calendar strip shows the week ahead with events from your shoots, sessions and pitches. Click any day to open the calendar. Below that, the cashflow chart rolls up 12 months of In/Out/Net so you can see whether the business is heating up or cooling down.

On the right, "3 things need you" pulls the highest-priority items across your week. Tap any to jump straight to it.

Open Settings → Business. The first block is your business profile: legal name, trading name, address, phone, email, TIN. These print on every invoice and receipt PDF, so get them right once.

Upload your logo (PNG with transparency works best). It appears in the top-left of every document at PDF export time. Your accent colour drives the bands and totals on the document templates, pick it to match your brand, not GíríBooks green.

Payment info goes in the next block: bank account name, number, sort code, plus optional fields for mobile money or international wire. Whatever you fill here lands on the footer of every invoice so clients can pay without asking.

Tap the business mark in the top-bar (top-right, next to the bell) to open the switcher. Every workspace you own or have been invited to appears with its own avatar mark; pick one to drop into it.

Each business has its own books, its own clients, its own team and its own plan. Members invited to one don't automatically see another, privacy stays scoped to the workspace.

To add a new business, open the switcher and pick "Create new business" at the bottom. The new workspace starts on a 14-day full-access trial. Pick Pro / Business / Enterprise from Settings → Billing when you're ready.

From the dashboard, tap "Create new" → Invoice. Pick a client (or create one inline), set the issue and due dates, then add line items. Each item has a name and an optional description, the description prints in lighter type underneath, so use it for billable detail without making the invoice noisy.

GíríBooks calculates subtotal, applies your configured tax rate (set once in Settings → Tax for VAT, GST, sales tax, whatever your jurisdiction calls it), and shows the running total in the live preview on the right. When it looks right, tap "Save & send".

You'll get three sharing options: a PDF download, an email send, or a public share link. The share link works without a login, copy it into WhatsApp, your client opens it, sees the invoice in your branding, and can pay directly.

Open Retainers from the sidebar (Money in → Retainers). Tap "New retainer", pick the client, set the amount and the cadence (weekly / fortnightly / monthly / custom). Add a description that'll print on every invoice the retainer generates.

Pick the start date and either an end date (for a fixed engagement) or "Until paused" for an open-ended arrangement. From that day onwards, GíríBooks generates a fresh invoice on the schedule and either drops it in Drafts (so you can review) or auto-sends to the client (for fully hands-off retainers).

You can pause, resume or cancel a retainer at any time without affecting historical invoices it's already generated.

Settings → Documents controls the look of every invoice and receipt PDF. Upload a logo (transparent PNG ideally), pick an accent colour (used for the band behind the document number, the totals strip, and the table headers), and write a footer line that appears at the bottom of every page.

A signature block, your name and role, prints just above the footer. If you ship invoices by email, this is what makes them feel like they're coming from a person, not an automation.

Changes apply to every new document immediately, and to existing invoices the next time you re-export their PDFs. Past PDFs you've already sent stay frozen in their original branding.

Money in → Invoices is the master ledger. Each row shows the invoice number, the client, the amount, the status (Draft · Sent · Paid · Partial · Overdue) and the due date. Hover any row to see a quick-detail bubble with payment history without leaving the list.

When a client pays, open the invoice and tap "Record payment". Pick a method (cash, bank transfer, mobile money, cheque), an account it landed in, and the amount. Partial payments are fine, the invoice stays in "Partial" until fully cleared.

For overdue invoices, the system automatically queues a polite payment reminder seven days after due date. You can adjust the cadence or send manually from the invoice detail page.