Clients sign your estimate and pay the retainer online. The report and the footage go to them by links that expire.

Yes. Each recipient opens the estimate from their own link, chooses a package and signs. The retainer is the estimate's deposit, so its invoice will be issued when they sign. They pay it by card, into your own Stripe account. Everyone will be emailed the signed PDF and a signing certificate.

Yes. A pricing section can offer 2 to 4 packages, each with its own lines. One can be Two investigators and another One investigator. You mark one as recommended, and the client chooses before signing. The totals, and a retainer set as a percentage, follow their choice.

Mileage is a line of its own, on the estimate or the invoice. The distance is the quantity, and the unit price is your rate per kilometre or mile. On an estimate, the line's unit can say km or miles. Parking and tolls are recorded as expenses and billed at what you paid.

Yes. Its activity lists each opening: by whom, when, and on a phone, tablet or computer. Reading time shows how long they spent on each section. You will be emailed when it is first opened, signed or declined.

Yes. You upload the letter as a PDF, or start from your starter of it. Each signer gets their own link by email, and can be asked for an access code. When everyone has signed, each will get a link to the signed PDF and the certificate.

Yes. Each case is a Time Tracking project, with its client, hourly rate and hour budget. You run a timer on the case, or add the time afterwards, such as 3h 30m. One timer runs at a time, and it keeps running if you close the browser.

Yes. A case's project can round billed time to the nearest 5, 6, 10 or 15 minutes. Or it can bill the exact time. Each entry keeps the time you recorded. The invoice editor shows recorded and billed time where they differ.

The case's project shows the hours used against the estimated hours. Extra hours go on an invoice of their own. Add unbilled time lists the hours you recorded for the client. You tick the ones to bill, and each will become a line at its hourly rate.

Yes. You record each cost as an expense, with its receipt. You link it to the client and mark it reimbursable. Add unbilled expenses will put it on their invoice as a line, at the amount recorded. Issuing the invoice will mark the expense billed, so it is not offered again.

Yes. All Expenses filters by project, so it can list one case's costs. Export receipts will then download a ZIP of them, with a CSV file and the receipts. Each receipt is named by date, merchant and amount.

Secure Files keeps them encrypted, in folders such as one for each case. Each file can be up to 2 GB, and stills up to 10 MB show a preview in the list. The files are stored in your own account, so each investigator has their own.

You, with your Password Vault password. Your browser encrypts each file, its name and its folder's name before upload. Magpie stores only the encrypted data. It sees file sizes, dates and link use, not the contents. Anyone else gets a file only through a secure link you send.

You make a secure link for the file. It expires after 1 hour, 1 day, 7 days or 30 days. It can allow one download, and ask for a passphrase you send another way. The client's browser decrypts the file, and can play a video on the page. Revoke stops the link at once, even during a download.

Yes. Each link lists when its page was opened and when the file was downloaded. The list also counts the downloads. In the file list, the file shows Link downloaded with the date. A download means the whole encrypted file was sent to them.

The recovery key you saved at setup lets you choose a new Password Vault password. Secure Files then opens with the new one. Magpie keeps neither the password nor the recovery key. Your files open only with one of them.

Yes. Image adds stills from Your images, or uploads new ones, each with a caption. A still can be centred, or placed left or right with the text beside it. Download PDF keeps each picture's size and place, with the headers and page numbers.

Yes. Redact marks text or an area of a page by hand. Find and redact finds every match of a word or phrase, such as a plate number. Each marked page is exported as an image with those areas painted black. The file is checked first, and nothing is exported if text remains on a redacted page.

Yes. Export PDF can protect the file with an AES-256 password. It can also remove the PDF's document properties, such as its author. The new file is made in your browser, and the original is not changed.

Yes. You type each time beside what you saw, and the note is saved as you go. A note in Personal opens only for you. One in a team opens for its members who use Notes. Export as Markdown downloads the log as a file.

Yes. Their Client Portal can hold a plan for each case, from instructions to report. They see which steps are done, and tick the ones that are theirs. Invoices, signature requests and files you share are in the portal too. They can upload files of their own.

Yes. Walkie Talkie is push to talk: you hold Talk and speak. With Live on, the other investigator hears you as you speak. Every message is also kept as a recording, to play later if missed.

Yes. In a team, you both record your hours on the case's project. Reports total them by person. A report written in the team opens for both of you. Each of you keeps your own footage, encrypted, and sends it by secure link.

Yes. Invoices and the retainer can be paid by card, into your own Stripe account. Magpie adds no fee, and Stripe's processing fee is taken from each payment. Reminders can go out until an invoice is paid. A cheque or bank transfer is recorded by hand, in full or in part.