SEO Agencies
The same deliverable, nine times a month, and no screen that says which retainer still pays.
Retainer work repeats, so the board fills up and tells you nothing about margin. Every hour your team logs updates that client's margin, live, and the invoice-summary report groups by client by default.
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Nine retainers, one shape of month, and the margin is a guess.
SEO retainers repeat by design. The audit, the briefs, the content, the links, the report. Nine clients, the same set of deliverables, thirty days at a time.
That regularity is what makes the board deceptive. It fills up and empties on schedule whether the retainer is making money or not, because a task board records what was done and never what it cost. The client who quietly needs three extra hours a month looks identical to the one who does not.
So the margin conversation happens once a year, from a spreadsheet somebody rebuilt for the occasion, about a period nobody can change any more.
There's a better way.
The Old Way
The retainer rebuilt every month: Somebody copies last month's tasks.
Margin once a year, from a spreadsheet: Rebuilt for the meeting.
The monthly report assembled by hand: Export, paste, format, send.
A seat for every client who wants the report: So they get an attachment instead.
The SOP in a shared folder: Nobody is sure which copy is current.
The Flowboard Way
Recurring task templates: The repeating set runs on a configurable schedule.
Margin per client, live: Computed from the hours already logged, per project and per client.
Scheduled report delivery: Five report types, delivered to a named recipient list on a schedule.
Client seats are free: Portal users never count against the member limit.
Docs beside the work: Version numbers computed on the server, any version restorable.
Retainer Delivery
The repeating month runs itself.
Recurring task templates on a configurable schedule, over the same task model as everything else.
A retainer is a set of deliverables that recur. Recurring task templates put that set on a schedule rather than in a checklist somebody copies, and the tasks they create are ordinary tasks: same board, same list, same timer, same hours feeding the same margin calculation.
Project templates cover the other half, the new client who needs the same shape of engagement as the last one, carrying their sections and task count rather than being rebuilt.
So what: the ninth retainer is set up the way the first one was, and the hours behind it are legible.
Client Reporting
The monthly report sends itself, from the hours already logged.
Five purpose-built report types, a saved configuration, and scheduled delivery to a named recipient list.
Reports are not one generic export with a filter on it. There are five: time and billing, project profitability, team utilization, invoice summary, and capacity versus actual. Each is its own engine. Save the configuration, set a schedule, and it delivers to an explicit list of recipient emails.
The invoice-summary report groups by client by default, which is the question a retainer business actually asks.
Honest limit: export is CSV. The PDF option falls back to CSV, so treat the format as CSV and nothing else.
So what: the reporting hour at month end stops being a rebuild.
Client Access
Reporting access costs nothing.
A separate client identity, their own view of their own projects and invoices, and no seat charged for it.
Client portal users live in their own table, separate from your team's. The plan's member limit only ever counts your team, so giving a client, their marketing manager and their CFO a login changes nothing about the bill. That is the code-level basis for the claim, not a promotion.
What they see is scoped: their projects, files, invoices and forms, filtered by the same visibility rule the internal Preview as Client toggle uses. Cost rate per hour is returned only to Owner and Admin, so what a teammate costs is never in a client view.
So what: the client sees the work without seeing the margin on it.
How Flowboard helps seo agencies
Proofs for the approval round
Pin-based annotation on the asset, version history, and an approve or request-changes decision recorded as a status rather than inferred from a comment.
Docs beside the work
Rich text documents with server-computed version numbers, restore, undelete and duplicate, in the same workspace as the retainers they govern.
One plan, no tiers
$39 per seat per month USD, client seats free and unlimited, so reporting access costs nothing. Nothing on this page sits behind an upgrade.
What is not here
No rank tracking, no keyword research, no backlink data, no analytics or Search Console connection, and no integrations marketplace to add them. There is no Gantt and no native mobile app. Flowboard runs the agency, not the SEO work.
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