Engagement Tracking ยท Milestone Billing ยท TDS 194J Ready

Professional finance, Optimized
for every practice.

Milestone invoicing, retainer collection, WIP valuation, sub-contractor payouts and TDS 194J โ€” the operating system built for CA / Law / Architecture & consulting firms.

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★★★★★ 4.9/5 ยท 1,850+ firm reviews
6,100+ firms run on Credvue

Milestone Invoice

M/s Acme ยท Phase 2

โ‚น 8,40,000

Retainer Collection

18 clients ยท Monthly

โ‚น 12,60,000

Expense & Advance

Travel ยท Stipend ยท Vendor

โ‚น 3,18,650

Sub-Contractor Payout

TDS 194J ยท 12 consultants

โ‚น 6,24,800

Practice Finance Live

Billed
โ‚น 2.84 Cr
โ–ฒ 18.2% QoQ
Collected
โ‚น 2.67 Cr
94% realisation
WIP Hours
8,412
โ–ฒ 6.1% vs last mo
Utilization
78.4%
โ–ฒ 3.8 pts
0 Firms onboard
0 ARR tracked / yr
0 Faster month-end close
0 Avg collection rate

Six professional headaches. Gone.

The finance problems every CA / Law / Architecture firm deals with โ€” solved end-to-end.

Scope Creep Billing

Track every extra hour, every change request, every revision. Convert unbilled WIP into invoices in 2 clicks โ€” no more write-offs.

WIP Valuation & Holdbacks

Value work-in-progress at standard or blended rates. Track holdback / retention on milestones and release on client sign-off.

TDS 194J + 26AS Mismatch

Auto-withhold 10% TDS u/s 194J on counsel / retainer payouts and reconcile every credit with 26AS before filing.

Sub-contractor / Counsel Payouts

Manage retainer + variable payouts to independent counsel, architects, domain consultants with GST + TDS fully handled.

Utilization & Partner Profitability

See billed vs available hours per partner, per associate, per team. Run realization rates and department P&L on tap.

Expense + Advance Reconciliation

Capture travel, printing, stipend, client-site advances. Attach receipts, settle against salary or invoice and reconcile to the rupee.

Four modules. One practice OS.

Purpose-built finance modules designed for professional firms, not generic businesses.

Engagement & Milestone Billing

Phase ยท Deliverable ยท Success-based

Engagement: Acme Corp Audit72% billed
Phase 1 ยท Sign-offโœ“ Paid
Phase 2 ยท Draft submittedPending โ‚น8.4L
Phase 3 ยท Holdback 10%WIP
Solution 01

Engagement billing that actually collects.

Define engagements, structure phases & milestones, schedule invoices and auto-send reminders. Convert unbilled WIP into a GST invoice with a single click.

  • Milestone, retainer & time-based billing
  • WIP valuation at standard / blended cost
  • Holdback / retention tracking & release
Expense & Advance Mgmt

Travel ยท Stipend ยท Client-site

Submitted ยท Julโ‚น 3,18,650
Approvedโ‚น 2,84,200
Reimbursedโ‚น 2,10,000
Solution 02

Expense & advances, no more Excel.

Every team member submits expenses by phone with a receipt photo. Managers approve in 1 tap. Finance settles against salary or invoices โ€” 100% audit trail, zero paper.

  • Mobile receipt capture + OCR
  • Per-diem rules + approval workflows
  • Settle against salary / invoice / payout
Counsel / Sub-Contractor Payouts

TDS 194J ยท GST ยท Retainer

โ— Senior Counsel Aโ‚น 2,40,000
โ— Architect S&Pโ‚น 1,80,000
โ— Tax Consultant Vโ‚น 96,000
โ— TDS 194J (10%)โˆ’ โ‚น 51,600
Solution 03

Counsel payouts with 194J built in.

Onboard independent counsel, architects or domain consultants as vendors. Raise purchase orders, approve invoices, auto-withhold TDS 194J at 10% and pay in bulk.

  • TDS 194J + 194C auto-withholding
  • Retainer + variable fee structures
  • Form 16A generation & e-mail
Practice Performance Live

Realization ยท Utilization ยท Partner P&L

Realization
94.2%
โ–ฒ 2.4 pts
Utilization
78.4%
โ–ฒ 3.8 pts
Solution 04

Know your practice, partner by partner.

Live dashboards for managing partners: billed vs collected, realization rates, utilization %, WIP aging and profitability per engagement, partner and team.

  • Realization % by partner / department
  • WIP + aged-debtor dashboards
  • Monthly board-pack auto-generated

Why top firms switch to Credvue.

Hard metrics and practical wins that partners notice in the first 90 days.

38%
Faster month-end close โ€” average firm goes from 12 days to 7.
โ‚น 1.2 Cr
Increased annual collections after putting WIP billing on rails.
94%
Average client collection rate across firms on Credvue.
Write off 70% less WIP

Stop losing money on unbilled hours. Every hour logged is either billed, written off with reason, or escalated โ€” partners see WIP aging on their phone.

Audit-ready, every quarter

Engagement letter โ†’ PO โ†’ timesheet โ†’ invoice โ†’ receipt. All linked, all searchable, all with document attachments. Auditors log in, they don't call you.

Plays with your existing stack

2-way sync with Tally / Zoho / QuickBooks. Timesheet import from Harvest, Asana, Monday. E-mail invoices from your own domain. No double-entry.

Practice-trained CSM

Dedicated CSM who has set up CA or law firms before. They know what a draft audit report looks like and why TDS 194J matters on counsel fees.

Loved by partners & fee-earners alike.

CA firms, law chambers, architecture studios โ€” here's who switched and why.

★★★★★

"We were writing off โ‚น80โ€“90L of unbilled WIP a year. With Credvue's WIP-to-invoice flow we recovered 62% of that in the first two quarters. That alone paid for the platform 10x over."

AJ
Ankit Jain

Managing Partner ยท 40-member CA firm, Mumbai

★★★★★

"Counsel payouts used to take 10 days โ€” we were getting calls. Now with TDS 194J auto-withheld, approval workflow and bulk payout we close on the 3rd. My admin team actually smiles on payday."

RS
Ritu Sharma

Founder Partner ยท Full-service Law Firm, Delhi

★★★★★

"Milestone billing + expense management + sub-consultant payouts in one place. We run 14 live projects, multiple architects on retainer. Credvue is my firm's single source of truth now."

MN
Meera Nair

Principal Architect ยท 18-person Studio, Bengaluru

Simple pricing for professional firms.

Starts small. Scales with your practice. No lock-in, cancel anytime.

Solo Practice

For individual consultants & sole-proprietor firms

โ‚น 4,999 / month
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  • 3 users ยท 20 active engagements
  • Milestone + retainer billing
  • Basic expense mgmt
  • TDS 194J on 10 vendors
  • Email support

Enterprise Practice

For 50+ member firms & multi-location

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  • Unlimited users & engagements
  • Multi-office / multi-entity
  • SSO ยท Roles ยท Audit-logs
  • Custom ERP + BI integrations
  • 4-hour priority SLA
  • On-site implementation

Questions? Answers.

What partners and firm admins typically ask before they sign up.

01

Yes โ€” we include native timesheets that feed directly into WIP and invoicing. If you are already on Harvest, Asana, Monday.com or a custom timesheet tool, we import via API / CSV so you don't have to rekey hours.

02

You set standard billing rates per role (partner, senior, associate, intern) or per individual. Hours logged are valued automatically at those rates, and you can override with blended or engagement-specific rates before converting to an invoice. Write-offs and holdbacks are tracked separately.

03

Yes. Every invoice raised against a professional service vendor defaults to 10% TDS u/s 194J. You can override to 194C for contracts, generate Form 16A, and reconcile TDS credits against 26AS before filing.

04

Yes โ€” 2-way sync with Tally Prime, Zoho Books and QuickBooks Online is built in. Invoices, expenses, payments and taxes all map to your chart of accounts so you never post the same entry twice. Migration included in onboarding.

05

A typical 15โ€“30 member firm is live in 2โ€“3 weeks: chart of accounts alignment, vendor/customer masters, opening balances, engagement templates, accounting-software sync and 3 rounds of team training.

06

100%. Credvue is ISO 27001, bank-grade encrypted, with role-based access, full audit trails on every edit, and immutable document attachments. Auditors get a read-only view that answers 90% of their questions without calling you.

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