Graphic and brand designers

Clients sign the brief and pay the deposit online. You hand over the brand as a site they can open, with every logo and colour.

A designer working alone uses Magpie in Personal. A studio and its designers can work in one Magpie team.

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Fieldmark Studio’s design of Wildwood Cider’s shop in Design Canvas, with the prototype’s links from the cider list to a cider’s details and the order.

This combination of six Magpie areas fits a brand designer.

Proposals
Proposals quotes each identity project, and takes the deposit at signing.
Client Portal
Client Portal gives each client their files, their steps and their invoices.
Design Canvas
Design Canvas holds your designs and prototypes, shared by link.
Design System
Design System hands over the brand guidelines as a site, with every logo, colour and typeface.
Presentations
Presentations holds the concepts deck you present and share.
Invoicing
Invoicing bills each payment, and your hours for extra work.

Clients choose a logo or a full identity, sign, and pay half up front.

Proposals turns the brief and your fees into a quote the client signs online. Magpie's branding starter offers a logo and colour palette, or a full identity with brand guidelines. Its timeline runs from research and concepts to the final files.

The starter asks for 50% at signing and the rest with the final files. The deposit's invoice is issued when the client signs. The work starts once it is paid.

Prices and packages in Proposals

A brand identity proposal from Fieldmark Studio for Wildwood Cider, with the cover, the list of contents, the recommended full identity package chosen and the total in a bar at the foot of the screen.

Each client has a portal for the concepts, their steps and the invoices.

Client Portal gives each client a private page of their own. A plan lists the steps of the project, such as choosing a direction. The client ticks theirs, and uploads their references beside your files.

Their Overview lists their open steps, the invoices to pay and the documents to sign. Final files of up to 500 MB each are shared there.

Shared work in Client Portal

Wildwood Cider’s portal from Fieldmark Studio: under For you to do, choosing a direction and sending the label sizes, with the logo licence to sign.

You design the logo, the stationery and the screens, and share a prototype by link.

Design Canvas is Magpie's design editor, with components, styles and variables. Frames come in phone, tablet, desktop and slide sizes. Each file keeps named versions and branches.

A prototype link opens the screens you choose, clickable, for anyone who has it. You can invite a client to comment on the design itself. Exports are SVG, PNG, JPEG, WebP or PDF.

Prototypes and review in Design Canvas

You hand over the brand guidelines as a site, with every asset to download.

Design System holds the brand: the logos with their usage notes, the palette and the typography. A HEX colour shows its RGB and HSL values, and CMYK can be added.

You share it at its own address, and anyone with the address can open it. The client downloads every brand asset as one ZIP. Developers get the colours as design tokens and CSS.

Brand guidelines in Design System

The Wildwood Cider brand system’s page for developers: the brand as files to download, from tokens in JSON and CSS to a ZIP with every brand file.

You present the concepts from a deck, and send the client its link.

Presentations holds your concepts deck, with pictures and speaker notes. Present opens it full screen, skipping hidden slides.

Publishing it gives a link anyone can view without signing in. Export PDF gives one slide a page, for the client's files.

Present and share in Presentations

Magpie bills each payment, and your hours for work outside the brief.

Invoicing turns each payment of the proposal into an invoice. The final payment takes the balance. Clients pay by card from the email or their portal.

Time Tracking records your hours on each project, at its rate. Add unbilled time puts the hours for extra revisions on the next invoice.

Payments in Invoicing

Fieldmark Studio’s Time Tracking: a timer running on the Wildwood labels, and the morning’s entries on other clients.

Five more areas cover your clients, contracts, image sizes, posts and the books.

Contacts
Contacts keeps each client's proposals, invoices and signed documents on one page.
E-Signatures
E-Signatures sends your own contract or licence agreement as a PDF to sign.
Image Converter
Image Converter makes every size and format of an image at once, downloaded as a ZIP.
Social Media
Social Media can use the logos and images from a client's Brand section in a post.
Accounting
Accounting adds each invoice, payment and Stripe fee to the books.

A brand refresh goes from a signed proposal to a brand site the client keeps.

The client's contact page lists the proposal and every invoice.

  1. The proposal

    You start from the branding starter. The client chooses the full identity, signs and pays the deposit.

  2. The portal

    When the work starts, Magpie can share the proposal and its invoices in the client's portal.

  3. The concepts

    You present two directions from a deck. The client ticks the step that chooses one.

  4. The design

    You draw the logo and the screens, and share a clickable prototype by link.

  5. The hand-over

    You share the brand site, and the client downloads every logo and font as a ZIP.

  6. The final payment

    You bill the balance, and the client pays it by card.

Setting up takes four steps.

  1. Add your business details

    You add your studio's name, address and logo for invoices. Help: Send and configure invoices.

  2. Connect Stripe

    You connect your Stripe account, so clients can pay by card. Help: Connect Stripe to receive money.

  3. Set your fees

    You open the branding starter, set your packages and save it as your own. Help: Proposal starters, saved sections and the price list.

  4. Start a design system

    You make one for your next client and fill in its Brand section. Help: Keep brand assets in the Brand section.

Plans

A designer working alone fits Pro, for your own work in Personal. It has no limit on proposals, invoices or contacts, and raises your file storage from 1 GB to 20 GB.

A studio fits the Team plan, one price for up to 25 members. Each designer's file storage is their own. On the free plan, you can send 5 proposals and create 5 invoices a month.

Magpie adds no fee to deposits or invoice payments. Stripe's processing fee is taken from each. Prices are on the Pricing page.

Prices are on the Pricing page

Other people who design for clients have pages of their own.

Questions graphic and brand designers ask

Can clients choose between a logo and a full identity?

Yes. A proposal offers 2 to 4 packages, with one marked Recommended. Magpie's branding starter has a logo and colours, or a full identity with guidelines and templates. The client chooses one and signs with a drawn or typed signature.

Can I take a deposit before I start?

Yes. The first payment can be a deposit, as a percentage or an amount. Its invoice is issued when the client signs. They can pay it by card straight away. The work can be set to start once it is paid.

How do I show a client the concepts?

You can present them from a deck, full screen, and send the published deck's link. You can share a prototype link that opens the screens you choose. Files go in the client's portal, where they tick the step that chooses a direction.

Can a client leave feedback on the design itself?

Yes. You invite them to the one design file as a commenter. Their comments are pinned to the canvas, numbered, and can be resolved and reopened. They see that file and nothing else of yours.

Can I share a clickable prototype?

Yes. Present a flow and Magpie makes a link to it. Anyone with the link can click through the screens without signing in. It shows only the frames the flow reaches, not your other pages or comments.

What file formats can I export?

SVG, PNG, JPEG, WebP or PDF, at 1× to 4×. You can export a selection or a whole page. Raster and PDF exports use the fonts installed on your computer.

Can I keep earlier versions of a design?

Yes. You name a version and restore it later, which adds a new checkpoint. A branch lets you try a direction and merge it back into the main file.

Can I hand over brand guidelines as a page?

Yes. A design system's Brand section holds the logos with usage notes, the palette and the typography. You share it at its own address, unlisted or public. Anyone with the address can open it without signing in.

Can the client download all the brand assets?

Yes. Download brand assets gives every shared file as one ZIP, up to 250 MB. Logos can be SVG, PDF or ZIP files, and fonts WOFF, WOFF2, TTF or OTF.

Can a developer use the brand colours as design tokens?

Yes. The design system exports its design tokens as JSON and as CSS variables. Its shared page copies a colour's value, name or CSS variable. There is a file written for coding assistants too.

Can I deliver large final files?

Yes. A client portal shares up to 20 files at once, each up to 500 MB. Secure Files sends one file of up to 2 GB by a link that expires.

Can I bill extra rounds of revisions?

Yes. You track the hours on the client's project, at its rate. Add unbilled time puts them on the next invoice as lines. A recurring invoice can bill a monthly retainer.

Can I export every size of a logo for the web?

Yes. Image Converter makes several sizes and formats from one image, downloaded as a ZIP. Favicon Generator makes every website icon from one image.

What does Magpie take from my clients' payments?

Magpie adds no fee to deposits or invoice payments. Stripe's processing fee is taken from each card payment. The rest goes to your own Stripe account.

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