Predictable margins for professional services
Keep utilization healthy, prevent budget overruns early, and turn WIP into cash in minutes, without spreadsheets or fragmented tools.
Built for consultancies, agencies, legal and accounting practices, engineering and IT services.
Engagement Cockpit
Live services snapshot
This week
Active projects
Active engagements
Annual Audit - Horizon SA
98%Brand Revamp - Northwind
112%Live timer
Track profitability down to the minute across unlimited projects, team members and clients
Profit you can plan on
Know where every engagement stands-before it's too late
- Live budget tracking
- Watch budgets update as time and expenses are logged-no month-end surprises.
- Variance alerts
- Get early warnings at 70/90/100% so you can adjust scope or staffing.
- Fixed-fee guardrails
- Protect margins on flat‑fee work with burn‑down visibility.
- Expense control
- Capture, approve and allocate expenses to the right project, automatically.
- At‑a‑glance health
- See budget, actuals and forecast in one simple pane for every engagement.
Mobile App Development
Budget tracking
Budget
€50,000.00
Spent
€0.00
Remaining
€50,000.00
Cost Breakdown
Website Redesign
Design mockups
Recent Entries
Client consultation
Tax Advisory • 2:30 PM
2h 15m 30s
€360
Market research
Brand Strategy • 11:45 AM
1h 45m 12s
€245
Design mockups
Website Redesign • 9:15 AM
3h 30m 45s
€525
Frictionless capture
Time tracking your team won’t fight
- One‑click timers + bulk entry
- Accurate capture without administrative drag.
- Mobile‑friendly
- Log time from client sites or between meetings-adoption goes up.
- Automatic rates
- Apply billable rates by person, role or project-no manual maths.
- Less leakage
- Small tasks get recorded; billable time improves without pressure.
- Approvals your way
- Lightweight manager review keeps data clean without slowing teams.
Bill faster, with fewer mistakes
From approved time to invoice in minutes
- Turn time into invoices
- Drafts compile automatically from approved time and expenses.
- Milestones and retainers
- Support fixed‑fee, phased and blended billing without workarounds.
- Read receipts
- Know when clients open invoices so you can follow up intelligently.
- Get paid by card
- Send a branded payment link on any invoice; the payment, fee and payout post themselves.
- Partial payments & deposits
- Handle deposits and progressive billing cleanly.
- AR visibility
- Track outstanding invoices and cash in with fewer email chains.
Time Entry
Team logs 15.5 hours on project
Team Utilization
This week
Sarah Chen
Senior Consultant
0%
Michael Roberts
Project Manager
0%
Emma Wilson
Designer
0%
David Park
Developer
0%
Protect delivery and your people
Balance workloads across your team
- Real‑time utilization
- Spot over‑ or under‑allocation across roles and individuals.
- Capacity planning
- Check staffing before committing to a new engagement.
- Bottleneck detection
- Identify overloaded specialists early and rebalance work.
- Sustainable workload
- Prevent burnout while keeping delivery on track.
Live performance
Real‑time profitability for every project
- Live margins
- See profit as hours and expenses hit the project-not weeks later.
- Recovery rate
- Track how much of your time cost is actually recovered in billing.
- WIP valuation
- IFRS‑aware WIP keeps financials accurate between billing cycles.
- Drill‑down clarity
- Tap any figure to see exactly what created it.
Sales Pipeline Management
Visualize your entire sales pipeline at a glance
Stop wondering where deals stand. See every opportunity, every stage, every next step in a visual pipeline that matches your unique sales process. Customize stages, track deal values and probabilities, and know exactly where to focus your energy.
- Custom pipeline stages that match how you sell.
- Not locked into someone else's process. Define stages that reflect your actual workflow.
- Deal values, probability percentages, and expected close dates.
- Track the metrics that matter for forecasting and planning.
- Assign deals to team members.
- Clear ownership and accountability for every opportunity.
- Filter by stage, owner, value, source, or any custom field.
- Find exactly what you need, when you need it.
Deals
10
Total
€170K
Weighted
€125K
Acme Corp
John Smith
TechStart Ltd
Emma Johnson
Global Industries
Michael Chen
+ 7 more deals
Built for services delivery
Everything you need to run profitable engagements
From scoping to invoicing to analysis-one system that supports the way professional services teams actually work.
Time & Expenses
- Timers & Bulk Entry
- Frictionless time capture on web and mobile.
- Expense Allocation
- Attach receipts, approve quickly, allocate to projects.
- Flexible Rates
- Set rates by person, role, client or project.
Delivery & Control
- Budget Guardrails
- Budget vs actual with threshold alerts.
- Utilization
- See who’s slammed and who has capacity.
- Quality & Audit Trail
- Every change logged with who, what and when.
Billing & Cash
- Time → Invoice
- Turn approved time/expenses into invoices in minutes.
- AR & Collections
- Read receipts, reminders and AR aging built‑in.
- Partial & Milestone Billing
- Deposits, fixed‑fee phases and retainers, handled cleanly.
Insight & Reporting
- Real‑time Profitability
- Margins and recovery rate per project, client and portfolio.
- Drill‑down Everywhere
- From dashboard KPIs to underlying entries in a click.
- Export to Excel/PDF
- Share clean outputs with clients or stakeholders.
One system, nothing falls through the cracks
Delivery, billing and finance-finally connected
No more spreadsheets and duplicate entry. Time, budgets, invoices and cash flow stay synchronized automatically across your operation.
Time Tracking
Timers and timesheets flow straight into costs, billing and profitability.
CRM
Track prospects and hand off won deals to delivery-no rekeying.
File Drive
Proposals, SOWs and receipts stored alongside projects and invoices.
Billing
Approved time turns into invoices with read receipts and reminders.
Project Operations
Budgets, utilization and engagement health at the center of your delivery.
Finance
Invoices, receipts and AR post automatically-no duplicate entry.
Payments
Get paid by card; client payments, fees and payouts reconcile to invoices automatically.
Reporting
Profitability, recovery and AR visibility with drill‑down detail.
Collaboration
Deal and project discussions replace email chains; @mention to pull in help.
Testimonials
Don't take our word for it
We asked our customers what changed since they switched to Mantle, and what they liked most. Here's what they had to say.
“Our firm has been in the accounting and audit business for over 20 years. After COVID we saw our fees fall, our overheads increase and the employer cost rise. We were thinking of selling our company when we found Mantle. We made a bet, we went "all in" and we worked with them to automate as much of our work as we could. Today we are cashflow positive again and looking to grow our client base. Mantle surpassed all our expectations. I would recommend them to anyone.”
“I was supervising a team of bookkeepers doing the work. Now I am supervising a team of bookkeepers that supervise the AI that does the work.”
“(Translated) First I did not trust it. Our company uses a special chart of accounts that is difficult to understand. I thought there was no way the system could understand how to do my work. In the beginning it made some mistakes, but in a few days suddenly it started acting as if I was entering the documents. That was very impressive.”
“I had 3 accountants spending all their time entering documents, a backlog and big delays at the end of every month. Now we can keep up and have time for internal controls, mostly thanks to Mantle.”
“I spent my career doing what Mantle now does on its own. And it's still faster than me. Where was your bank reconciliation 7 years ago?”
“The best test for any accounting system is how well it handles taxation. Everywhere else you have to make adjustments and journals to prepare your returns. Mantle packaged even the undocumented knowledge into an easy to use system.”
“The project management features have helped us track profitability more accurately. With Mantle we have the tools to measure our P&L objectives every day, not just every year.”
“What impressed me about Mantle is how easy it is to use. I came from systems that needed an ACCA to work with. In Mantle most of the time I just press a button.”
“It was important that we use a software made by professionals who understand our work. Our colleagues at Positive were always available to discuss even the most technical questions.”
“I recently registered my company in Cyprus and it was very difficult to have an accurate understanding of its finances. I just needed a reliable solution that runs on Mac. From everything I tried, Mantle is the only one I feel I can trust. ”
“We deal with many complicated international transactions and Mantle was the best system we found that could handle every requirement including tax compliance. No complaints.”
Built by a company you can trust
Mantle is made by Positive. We unite two decades of operational expertise with category-leading engineering. Our foundation in the complex world of management consulting and professional services provides the real-world grounding for our platforms, developed by elite talent in London. This synthesis allows us to solve critical challenges with solutions that are both technologically advanced and commercially astute.
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Budget guardrails, utilization and fast billing-so every engagement stays healthy and clients pay sooner.