Interior Design Studio Dashboard: Project Budgets, Fees, Margin and Hours

An interior design dashboard should tell you which projects are making money and which are being eaten by revisions. Say which figures you want, such as budget used, product margin and hours against the fee, and Mythex builds the charts, filters and exports from your own project data.

Who it's for

Studio owners who price full-room and full-home projects on a fixed fee or a percentage, track hours loosely if at all, and only learn whether a project paid off when the last invoice goes out.

What you can build

Active projects with budget used against the agreed total
Design fee income versus product margin by month
Hours logged against the fixed fee per project
Enquiries converted to signed projects
Outstanding deposits and unpaid invoices
Lead times at risk for upcoming install dates

Hours against fixed fees

The usual surprise is the full-home project that took twice the hours it was priced for because of endless revisions. Log hours per project by stage: concept, sourcing, revisions, site. The dashboard shows effective hourly rate per project, and patterns by project type tell you where to raise prices or cap revision rounds.

Fees and margin, side by side

Studios earn from design fees and from product margin or fees on purchases. Seeing both per month shows whether the business is a design practice or a furniture reseller in practice, and which one is growing.

Design fee income
Product margin or purchasing fee
Pass-through trades excluded

Install dates at risk

A dashboard can list items whose lead time puts delivery after the planned install or the client's deadline, such as a sofa due a week after Christmas guests arrive. Seeing it six weeks out leaves time to choose an in-stock alternative.

Mistakes to avoid

Do not mix client budgets with your own revenue in one chart. Do not count enquiries from friends and family in conversion. And log hours weekly; reconstructed timesheets are fiction.

A prompt to start from

Build a dashboard for my interior design studio. Show active projects with budget used against agreed budget, design fee income versus product margin by month, hours logged against the fixed fee with effective hourly rate per project, enquiry-to-project conversion by source, and products whose delivery date falls after the planned install date.

Questions

Can the dashboard show profitability per project?

Yes, if fees, product margin and hours are recorded. It compares them per project and by project type.

Can I import data from my spreadsheets?

Yes. Export projects, hours and purchases to CSV and ask Mythex for an import.

Can the dashboard sit inside my client portal app?

Yes. Build it in the same project behind a staff-only login, so it reads the same data the portal uses.

Do I need to code?

No. You describe the figures and change charts by chatting.

How much does it cost?

The Free plan has no card requirement. Pro is $25 a month for a custom domain, code editing, export and more credits.

Templates to start from

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