Set it up the way your practice already works.
Other tools give every practice the same template. Monument can be customised to fit your needs: your stages, your fee terms, your reports.
For work where the fee changes as the job does.
See how your stages and consultant scopes carry fees and planned hours.
Financial Overview
Milestones
Tasks (Gantt)
Resource Plan
Lead Architects
Design Partners
Keep scope, stages, fees and invoices together.
- Model every stage, package, consultant scope and task.
- Hold planned hours against a team or role, then assign them when the person is known.
- Keep fees, time, costs and invoices attached to the project structure.
Practices using Monument
Projects. Resourcing. Fees.
One structure from scope to invoice.
Stages and consultant scopes carry the programme, fees and planned hours even when priorities and teams change.
Match the fee to the work.
A fixed fee for concept design. Hourly fees for a variation. Supplier costs on-charged. Keep them on the same project, with progress tracked against each fee.
- Fixed fees with optional caps
- Hourly fees priced from time and rates, with optional caps
- Retainers and staff time alongside supplier costs
Riverside Residences
One contract · $150k fee
Break the job down your way.
By stage, building or discipline, in whatever order the job needs. The programme and fee totals follow your structure.
- Nest as many levels as the job needs
- A scope change is an added fee on the same project
- Each agreed version of the fee and programme is kept, not overwritten
Riverside Residences
Project Structure
Plan by role before assigning people.
Need another architect by March? Plan the hours each role needs, see where the work runs past the hours you have, and hire before it does.
- See who is stretched and who is free across every project at once
- Plan by team or role, then hand the hours to a person when you know who
- Move the plan when another project becomes urgent
Role & Team Plan
Practice-wide capacity · 10 weeks
Walk through role planning before assigning people to the work.
Run time, invoicing and access by project.
Invoice lines draw from recorded time and selected supplier costs.
Forward revenue
Busy now. Empty stretch next.
See the revenue gap months before it arrives, while you can still win work or move people.
Practice forecast
Revenue, cost, cash and hours
Run the project
Time tracking
Recorded time feeds project hours and invoice lines.
Gantt & dependencies
Dependencies show which task dates move when an earlier task shifts.
Leave & holidays
Leave and public holidays reduce your available hours before you commit the team.
Progress from logged hours
Spot a stage burning hours faster than its fee.
Bill the work
Invoicing & quotes
Build invoice lines in Monument, then push the invoice to your accounting system.
Expenses & subconsultants
Track project expenses, add markup and bill expenses or subconsultant costs.
Rates & rate cards
Keep dated rate versions so new rates don't rewrite earlier work.
Progress & milestone billing
Bill by milestone, with each stage's contribution set by you.
Fit it to the practice
Custom permissions
Set hidden, view or edit access across practice, project and people data.
Custom reports
Choose columns, filters and grouping, then report by week or month.
Custom fields
Add your own fields, task types and statuses, and number projects and invoices the way you already do.
API
Connect through Monument’s documented API on every plan.
Explore how recorded time and supplier costs become invoice lines.
Keep your accounting system. Monument handles everything before the invoice.
Monument plans projects, fees and staff, then drafts the invoice. Xero, QuickBooks Online or MYOB remains your accounting system.
Xero
Push invoices to Xero; detailed payment records and status come back.
QuickBooks Online
Push invoices to QuickBooks Online; invoice balances and payment status come back.
MYOB
Push invoices to MYOB; invoice balances and payment status come back.
Keep control of your accounting system. Your data exports cleanly if you ever leave.
Built for the built environment.
Pick your discipline to see how the fee and the staffing plan survive years of delivery.
Architecture practices
Stages, consultant scopes and fee changes in one project structure.
Engineering practices
Keep long projects, fees and staffing in one practice plan.
Planning consultancies
Track planning approvals, statutory phases and capped hourly fees across jurisdictions.
Landscape architects
Keep soft and hard landscape scopes together through years of construction observation.
Interior design studios
Track concurrent fit-outs, scope changes and billing.
Quantity surveyors
Plan fees and staffing for cost planning and contract administration.
Run the practice without late surprises.
Check the Stage 3 fee against the hours still needed and the invoices already sent. Then decide where to move people while the work is still underway.
Book a demo to model your project in Monument.