Let me tell you the thing nobody says out loud about software pricing for studios.
Most tools are built to grow their bill, not your studio. You start on a "starter" plan, then you add your junior, your site supervisor, your accounts person, maybe a partner. Suddenly the ₹800/month tool is ₹800 per seat per month, and you're paying ₹40,000+ a year for something you thought was cheap. Per-seat pricing quietly punishes you for the one thing you actually want to do: put your whole team on the same page.
Designa is priced the opposite way. One flat founding price. ₹2,299 + GST per year for the whole studio. Up to 10 members. Unlimited free client logins. That's it. No per-seat maths, no surprise at renewal.
Let me break down exactly what that number means, so you can decide for yourself.
What ₹2,299 a year actually covers
First, the number in plain terms. ₹2,299 is the base. Add 18% GST and you're at roughly ₹2,713 for the year. And because it's a business software subscription, that GST is input tax credit you can claim, so your effective cost is back near the base number if you're GST registered. For most studios that's less than what you'd spend on chai and printouts in a month.
Now, "for the whole studio" is the part people misread. It doesn't mean one login you all share. It means up to 10 real member accounts, you, your partners, your designers, your site person, your accounts person, each with their own login, their own view, their own accountability. Nobody's sharing a password on a WhatsApp group anymore.
And on top of those 10 members, you get unlimited free client logins. This is the quiet killer feature. Every client you're working with can have their own account in your branded portal, to see their room specs, approve mood boards, check where their money went, and it costs you nothing extra. Whether you have 3 active clients or 30, the price on your invoice doesn't move.
What you get inside, module by module
The price is flat, but what sits behind it is the actual daily grind of running a studio. Here's the honest list of what's included:
- Leads and enquiries, every enquiry from Instagram, referrals, your website lands in one place instead of scattered across three phones. You see who's hot, who's gone cold, who you forgot to call back.
- Room-by-room specs, furniture, finishes, fittings, per room. The living room sofa, the kitchen laminate, the bedroom wardrobe handles. This is where studios usually lose money, in the gap between what was quoted and what got ordered.
- Mood boards clients approve online, you build the board, client approves it in their portal, and there's a timestamp. No more "I never said yes to that marble" six weeks later.
- Quotes that become GST invoices, the same spec that the client approved turns into a proper GST invoice. You don't retype anything into Excel and pray the totals match.
- Procurement, purchase orders to vendors, tracked all the way to delivery. You know what's ordered, what's pending, what's stuck at the vendor's godown.
- Branded client portal, your logo, your studio name, one clean link the client logs into. Looks like you built it. Costs you nothing per client.
- GST invoicing + Razorpay collection, raise the invoice, send the payment link, client pays online. Money hits your account faster than chasing a cheque.
- Tally and Zoho Books sync, your accountant doesn't have to re-enter anything. The invoices flow across, so month-end stops being a fight.
Every one of those is in the ₹2,299. There's no "procurement is an add-on" or "portal is on the Pro plan." One price, everything on.
Why one flat price and not per-seat
I'll be straight about the thinking here. Per-seat pricing makes sense for a 200-person company. It makes no sense for a design studio where your team size flexes with your project load. You might be four people in the slow months and nine when three sites are running at once. If every new person costs you another seat fee, you hesitate to add them to the system, and the moment your site supervisor isn't in the software, the software is useless, because now half the truth lives in his WhatsApp.
Flat pricing means you put everyone on. The junior, the freelancer helping for two months, the accounts person who only logs in at month-end. One number, whole team. That's how a studio tool should be priced, and almost nobody does it.
This is also why I keep telling people that "free" and "cheap" are not the same thing. A free spreadsheet feels like it costs nothing until you count the hours lost to version confusion and the orders that slipped. I wrote more on that in the true cost of 'free' tools in your design studio, and separately on the hidden cost of running a studio on spreadsheets, because the spreadsheet isn't free, it's just billing you in a currency you don't track.
How this compares to the usual options
I won't run down any competitor by name-calling, but let's compare on plain, checkable facts, because that's all that matters when you're spending your own money.
Most of the well-known studio and design project tools are priced in dollars, per user, per month. Even a modest team lands somewhere in the tens of thousands of rupees per year once you convert and multiply by seats. And they were built for US and European workflows, no GST invoicing that actually matches Indian rules, no Razorpay, no Tally or Zoho sync. So you end up paying more and still keeping a separate accounting stack.
If you're weighing one of those global tools specifically, I've written a full breakdown in is Programa worth it for interior designers in India, and a wider survey of what's out there in the best software for interior designers in India (2026 guide). The short version: the global tools are genuinely good software, but you pay in dollars, you pay per seat, and you still do your GST and Tally work somewhere else.
Designa's bet is simpler. India-first, so GST and Razorpay and Tally aren't afterthoughts. Flat rupee pricing, so you can budget it in one line. Whole team included, so you actually use it fully.
The guarantees around the price
A cheap price with a scary catch isn't a good deal, so here's what sits around the number:
- 7-day money-back guarantee. Try it properly for a week. If it's not for your studio, you get your money back. No essay required.
- Done-for-you onboarding and data migration. You don't have to sit and manually re-enter your live projects. We move your existing data in for you. If you want to see how a full switch-over looks, how to move your whole studio onto Designa in a week walks through it day by day.
- Founding price. ₹2,299 is a founding-member rate. The honest reason it's this low is that early studios who back the product help shape it. If that number ever changes for new sign-ups later, you're locked in at what you joined on.
The maths, one more time, plainly
Ten member logins. Unlimited client logins. Leads, specs, mood boards, quotes, procurement, portal, GST invoicing, Razorpay, Tally and Zoho sync. All of it. For ₹2,299 + GST for the whole year, and the GST comes back as input credit if you're registered.
That's less than the cost of one botched purchase order. One time a wardrobe gets ordered in the wrong finish and has to be redone, you've spent more than a year of Designa. The software is meant to stop exactly that mistake from happening.
Try it before you trust me
Don't take my word for the price or the features. Go poke at it yourself. The live demo studio is at https://demo.designa.work, click around, raise a fake invoice, build a mood board, see how the client portal looks.
When you're ready to put your own studio on it, grab the founding price at https://go.designa.work, ₹2,299 + GST for the whole studio, 7-day money-back, and we'll migrate your data in for you. Set your team up once, and stop paying per head to keep everyone on the same page.