Review · Approve · Paid
Stripe-secured · Draftli never holds the money
Stop chasing invoices.
When your client approves, they pay.
Send one link instead of an invoice. Your client reviews the work, approves it, and payment happens in the same flow. No second invoice email. No “just bumping this up.” No waiting on a card they meant to dig out last Tuesday.
Free plan. 2% on Free, 0% on Pro. Payments by Stripe — Draftli never holds your card or your money.How payments work →
Stripe handles the money. We never do.
The card is charged by Stripe, on your connected account. Draftli never holds, sees, or stores it. Statement descriptor is your business name. Read the explainer →
Your client never logs in.
One link. They review on their phone, leave notes, and approve. No sign-up, no app, no password reset.
Watermarked until they pay.
Previews go out stamped. Originals stay in private storage. The watermark drops the moment the payment clears.
When approval lands.
One screen for your client: approval, payment, and the unlocked files. The end of the loop, in a single moment.
Review. Approve. Paid.
One link. Three steps. The whole loop.
REVIEW
Drop pins. Write notes. Same as marking up a PDF — except it’s the actual file.
APPROVE
One green button. Stripe opens. The approval-to-invoice dance is now a single flow.
PAID
Funds in your Stripe account. Originals unlock for download. You’re already on the next project.
From feedback to funded — in a single conversation.
See the full flow — in 60 seconds.
Project created. Files uploaded. Link shared. Client approves. Money in. The whole loop, condensed.
Walk the same approval-to-payment flow your clients walk. No signup, no card needed.
Built around the work freelancers actually do.
There’s a tool for the project. There’s a tool for the invoice. Between them sits the part that actually ends the job — sending the work, getting the yes, getting paid. Draftli is that part.
One link beats five emails.
Send the URL. Your client opens it on whatever they’re holding — phone, tablet, laptop. No “create an account to view” wall.
Pin it to the pixel.
Clients click the spot they’re talking about. No more “the third one from the left” — every comment lands on a coordinate.
Approve = Pay. Same click.
There’s no separate invoice. The Approve button starts Stripe Checkout in the same flow. Funds land in your Stripe balance the same session.
New round, same link.
Iterate without breaking the URL. Upload a new round, the same share link points to it, and the client sees what changed. The previous round’s annotations stay archived.
What you actually deliver.
Three crafts, the same workflow.
Designers
Brand decks, mockups, logos. Watermarked PNG, JPG, and PDF previews. Annotations stick to the file.
Video editors
720p preview clips out. Full-resolution masters stay locked until payment. Clients review on their phone.
Photographers
Watermarked galleries. Selects approved frame by frame. Originals release the moment payment clears.
Why approval should be the payment trigger.
The work was approved on Tuesday. The invoice should not be sitting unpaid the following Tuesday.
The old way
- Send the file
- Open the invoicing app
- Send a separate invoice
- Wait. They got busy.
- “Hey, just bumping this up”
- Eventually paid
Days. Then a week. Then awkward.
The Draftli way
- Send one link
- Client clicks Approve
- Stripe charges in the same flow
Same click. Every time.
The freelance payment cycle is broken in a specific, predictable way. The deliverable goes out in one email. The invoice goes out in another — through a separate app, on a separate day. Your client said yes to the work, and now they have to come back, find the invoice, dig out a card, and pay it. They got busy. Days pass. Then a week. Then comes the message you didn’t want to send: “hey, just bumping this up.”
The awkwardness has nothing to do with the work. They loved the work. It has everything to do with the gap between approved and paid— a gap that exists because the approval and the payment live in two different tools, on two different days. Approval is the moment the client has decided. Asking them to repeat that decision a second time, after they’ve moved on to their own week, is a tax on attention. Draftli removes the invoice step entirely: the Approve button is the invoice. From “love it” to funded, in a single flow.
Start free. Upgrade when you grow.
Free is genuinely free. Pro is a flat €19 — no platform fee. Cancel any time.
Common questions.
When does Pro pay for itself?
Does my client need to sign up?
My client is nervous about paying through a tool they don't recognize. What can I send them?
How does payment actually work?
What if my client tries to keep the watermarked preview?
What files actually work?
Get paid when your client clicks approve.
Your first project takes about three minutes to set up. After that you mostly just send links.