Approval is Payment.

You finish the work. You attach an invoice to an email. You wait.

NET-30 turns into NET-45, then NET-60. A polite follow-up. Then a less polite one. Two months in, you’re chasing a client who already loved the deliverable. The awkwardness has nothing to do with the work and everything to do with the gap between approved and paid.

Days. Sometimes weeks. The work was finished a long time ago.

Approval is the moment the client has decided. Asking them to repeat that decision a second time — in an invoicing app, days later — is a tax on attention.

The category called invoicing assumes payment must come after approval, in a separate step, on a separate day, in a separate piece of software. That assumption is what the category is for.

Draftli is not in that category.

The client opens a single share link. No account. No login. No detour.

They see the work, watermarked. They drop pins. They leave notes. They request changes. When the work is right, they tap Approve.

Stripe Checkout opens on your connected account. The card is charged. Funds land in your Stripe balance. The originals unlock.

One link. Three steps. The whole loop.

There is no invoicing step. There is no follow-up. There is no NET-anything.

There is no client login, because asking a client to make an account in order to pay you is friction at the wrong moment.

There is no separate tool for collecting payment after the fact, because there is no after.

The product is the absence of those things. That absence is what’s worth paying attention to.

Creative work is finished when the client says it’s finished. Payment should follow immediately, because the decision to approve is the decision to pay. Software that puts a gap between those two decisions is software doing the wrong job.

The category is approval-to-payment. The Approve button is the invoice. From feedback to funded — in a single conversation.

That is what Draftli is for.