For Indian interior studios
A client portal your client doesn't have to install
One link opens the quotation they approve, the invoice they pay by UPI, and the timeline they can follow. It arrives on WhatsApp and opens on any phone — no download, no account, no password.
Included on every plan, including free. Paid from ₹499/month — priced per studio, not per seat.
What the client side has to get right
The homeowner paying for an interior project is often not the person who downloads apps. Every extra step between them and a decision is a week added to the job — so the design constraint is that there are no steps.
- No app, no login, no password to forget
- Everything the client sees is a link. It opens in WhatsApp, in the browser they already have, on the phone they already own. The client side of an interior project cannot depend on a download.
- Approving should take one tap
- The quotation opens with the total and an Approve button on the first screen, not three screens down. They tap it and you know — no 'please confirm by email', no reply that never comes.
- Paying should take one more
- The invoice carries a UPI button that opens their payment app with the amount and reference already filled in, and a card link beside it for anyone who prefers one.
- They will ask 'where are we' anyway
- A project timeline they can open themselves — what has been invoiced, what is outstanding, which drawings have been issued. The question still gets asked, but it gets asked less.
- Questions belong next to the line they're about
- A client can query a specific item on the quotation rather than sending a voice note about 'the wardrobe thing', so the answer lands against the row it concerns and stays there.
- It should look like your studio
- Your name, your colour, your contact details. Houscade is deliberately invisible on these pages beyond one small line — the client is looking at your document, not our product.
Why not an app
A branded client app is the obvious answer and the wrong one here. It assumes the client will install something, keep it installed, and find it again three weeks later when you need an approval. A link in the WhatsApp thread they are already using survives all three, and it works the first time on a phone you have never seen.
Questions studios actually ask
Does my client need to download an app?
No. Every client-facing page is a link that opens in a normal browser — usually straight from WhatsApp. There is no app, no account and no password. This is a deliberate design decision: most residential clients in India will not install software for one project, and asking them to is where approvals stall.
What can the client actually see?
The quotation, room by room with GST on each line; the invoice with what is paid and what is outstanding; and a project timeline showing progress and which drawings have been issued. You control what appears — brands, unit rates and quantities can each be hidden on a given quotation.
Is the link private?
Each link carries a long unguessable token, is not indexed by search engines, and can be turned off. It is a private link rather than a public page, and sharing is off until you enable it.
How does the client approve a quotation?
By tapping Approve on the page, or by replying to the WhatsApp message with the Approve button. Either way it is recorded against the quotation with a timestamp, so there is no argument later about whether it was agreed.
Will they see Houscade's branding?
Only a small 'Made with Houscade' line. The document carries your studio's name and your brand colour — on a client document the studio is the brand.
What does it cost?
The client side is included on every plan, including the free one. Paid plans start at ₹499 a month and are priced per studio rather than per seat, so sharing with more clients or adding more people does not change the bill.
The rest of it
Judge it from your client's side
This is a real quotation, opened exactly the way a client opens it — no signup, nothing installed, the total and the Approve button on the first screen. If it works for you here, it works for them there.