Programa helps interior designers run projects in one place. You specify products, manage the project and share your work with clients from the same information.
Follow these five steps in order. Each step takes only a few minutes, and you can add more detail later.
Step 1: Set up your studio
Do this one time. Your logo, tax rates and team then apply to every project.
How to set up your studio profile and branding: add your logo and studio details. Your logo shows on your PDFs and your clients' project dashboards.
How to set up and manage tax rates: add the tax rates that your projects use.
How to add and manage team members: invite your team and choose what each person can see.
Step 2: Create your first project
A project keeps everything for one client job together. Start from a blank project, a past project or a Programa template. Set the currency, measurements and tax before you add products.
Step 3: Set up your first schedule
Add each product one time, give it a location, and save the arrangement as a schedule. Use one product in five rooms, and update it one time.
Step 4: Add your products
Add products from a supplier URL, the Web Clipper, your Product Library or Smart Search. For custom items, create the product yourself. You can also import an existing schedule.
Install the Web Clipper: save products from supplier websites while you browse.
Step 5: Share with your client
Share the live schedule on your project dashboard. You choose what each person sees, so your client can see pricing and your builder can see the same schedule without it. When you need a file, export a PDF.
If your client needs help, you can send them How to use your project dashboard: client guide.
How Programa organizes your work
Studio: your settings, team, Product Library and templates. These apply to all your projects.
Project: one client job, with its own products, files, tasks, invoices and purchase orders.
Schedules: each project has one list of products, called All products. A schedule saves one way to look at that list, for example by room for your client or by supplier when you order. When you change a product, the change shows in every schedule.
Project dashboard: the place where your client and trades see the project.
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