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Reportly AI
Professional services

FP&A software for professional services

Agencies and consultancies run on project margin and cash timing. From the books Reportly delivers the P&L by client or project (the classes in your accounting system), the partner pack by practice area, and the 13-week cash forecast. Utilization and realization come from your time system, by upload, and sit next to the ledger numbers in the pack.

  • Briefcase
  • Handshake
  • Billable hours
  • Consulting
  • Client
  • Retainer
Timesheet, utilization, and project margin
TIMESHEET · BILLABLE18 of 24 hours billableUTILIZATION72%TARGET 75%3 pts to closePROJECT MARGIN41%

Illustrative preview — not customer data

01 — The problem

What breaks in professional services finance

The same three failures show up in almost every professional services team we talk to.

  • Time leaks quietly

    Utilization slips a few points a month. The margin is gone before invoicing.

  • Project margin arrives late

    You learn a project lost money when it closes, not in week two.

  • Cash lags the work

    Long payment terms mean profitable months and empty accounts.

02 — Metrics that matter

The numbers the owner asks about

Reportly builds the ledger figures from your accounting system; non-ledger figures come in by upload or manual entry and sit next to them in the pack.

Services performance pack

Illustrative data
Utilization · by upload
72%
▲ +3.1 pts
Project margin
41%
▼ -2.4 pts
Revenue per head · by upload
$186K
▲ +5.0%
Days sales outstanding
48 days
▲ +6 days
03

Built for how services firms make money

  • 01

    Project and client margins

    See profitability by project, client, or team from the classes in your accounting system. Test yours with the gross margin calculator.

  • 02

    Utilization economics

  • 03

    Cash timing

    Long payment terms make cash forecasting essential. Reportly projects it automatically in budgeting and forecasting.

  • 04

    Partner-ready reporting

    Monthly packs by practice area, generated by management reporting.

04 — Month end

What a month looks like with Reportly

Close the books, and the reporting takes care of itself.

Day 1

Actuals land

Time, cost, and revenue sync from your accounting classes.

Day 2

Margins by project

Every client and project shows its own margin, no rebuild required.

Day 3

Capacity check

Utilization meets the hiring plan. Demand decides the next hire.

Day 4

Partner pack ships

Practice-area reporting goes out the same week the month closed.

05 — Key terms

The vocabulary, defined

Plain-English definitions of the terms this page uses. More in our glossary.

  • Utilization

    The share of available hours that are billable. The core services efficiency ratio.

  • Realization rate

    The share of billable hours you actually collect on, after write-offs and discounts.

  • Project margin

    Revenue on a project minus its direct delivery cost, as a percentage.

  • Days sales outstanding

    The average days between invoicing a client and getting paid.

FAQ

Professional services FAQ

Yes, using the classes and locations in your accounting system. Map them once, and every report splits accordingly.
Yes. Recurring retainers and one-off projects roll into the same live picture.
The pack opens with what changed, in words. No dashboard to learn.

Built for how professional services really works

Every plan starts with a 14-day trial.