Retainr
Vol. 01Issue 04 — April 2026
Built forMarketing agencies, GCC
Available inEnglish · العربية

Stop running
your agency on
spreadsheets & chaos.

Retainr is the operations layer for marketing agencies — clients, retainers, budgets, payroll, and invoices in one calm workspace, instead of seven.

Ch. 01 — A look inside

Numbers your team
can actually trust.

Acme Studio  /  Dashboard April 2026
Active retainers
KWD 48,720
▲ 12.4%
Outstanding
KWD 9,412
3 overdue
Budget used
68%
▲ 4 pts
Hours / week
186.5h
▲ 22h
Client
Budget
Spent
Remaining
Status
Acme Co
Q2 Brand campaign
8,430.250
3,569.750
On track
Globex Ltd
Product launch
17,890.500
609.500
At risk
Hooli Inc
Always-on social
4,520.000
−20.000
Over
Initech
Performance marketing
2,100.000
3,900.000
On track
Soylent
Influencer program
5,340.750
3,659.250
On track
CH. 02

Every part of the agency, finally talking.

No more re-keying numbers between the spreadsheet, the invoicer, the payroll deck and the board report. One source of truth — and it actually agrees with itself.

01Flagship

Retainers & burn-down

See exactly how many hours each client has used against their monthly retainer — and get a heads-up before you cross the line. The dashboard you wish your old timesheet had.

HoursCapsAlertsPer-client
02Money

Budgets & receipts

Allocate monthly budgets per client, log every receipt against them, and watch utilization update live. Categorise spend so you always know where the money went.

KWDCategoriesVendorsMulti-currency
03People

Payroll & PIFSS

Run salaries, split each person's cost across client budgets, and print payslips in one click. PIFSS contributions (11% employee, 11.5% employer) are calculated automatically for Kuwaiti nationals.

PIFSSPayslipsNationalsAllocation
04Cashflow

Invoicing

Issue and track invoices from draft to paid. Log the payment date and method (bank transfer, cheque, KNET, cash) so your records are always reconcilable.

Paid dateMethodAR AgingOverdue
05Plans

Campaigns

Plan, launch and review campaigns per client — from draft brief to live to wrapped.

PipelineStatusesNotes
06Reporting

Reports

P&L by month, AR aging, budget utilization, expense by category, vendor spend, monthly trend, and PIFSS annual summary — all filterable and exportable to CSV.

P&LAR AgingPIFSS AnnualExport
07Kuwait

Kuwait accounting built in

No VAT, no income tax — just PIFSS. The system knows the rules: KWD to 3 decimal places, PIFSS applies only to nationals, and an annual PIFSS summary report ready for ministry submission.

KWDNo VATPIFSSMinistry report
06 Export

Lives in Retainr.
Leaves as Excel.

Every list, table and report you see is one click from a clean CSV. Budgets, payroll runs, invoice ledgers, P&L, AR aging, vendor spend, expense categories, and the PIFSS annual report — all in KWD with 3 decimal places, ready for your accountant or the ministry.

  • CSV Lightweight, UTF-8, comma-separated.
  • XLSX Multi-sheet workbooks with formulas + frozen headers.
  • PDF Print-ready snapshots for archives and audits.
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We replaced five spreadsheets, two Notion pages and a panicked WhatsApp chat with one workspace.
Abdulrahman Attallah Operations · Khaleej Studio · Kuwait City
CH. 03

From sign-up to first invoice in a Tuesday.

No onboarding consultant, no setup call you have to dial into. Bring your client list, set a budget, log time, send the bill.

1.

Spin up a workspace

Sign in, name your agency. The whole tenant gets created in seconds — hosted in Bahrain.

2.

Bring your roster

Paste in clients, vendors, employees. CSV import or just type. We won't judge your spreadsheet.

3.

Set monthly budgets

Allocate KWD per client per month. Log receipts and time against them as the month moves.

4.

Bill & report

Issue invoices, run payroll, export the report your CFO actually reads. Done.

CH. 04

Honest pricing, built for the Gulf.

No "contact sales." No "starting from." One bill, in your currency, every month.

Starter
Freelancers and 2–3 person studios.
Free
Forever — no card
  • 3 users
  • Clients & vendors
  • Budgets & receipts
  • Audit log
  • Email support
Start free
Agency
Larger shops with 25+ teammates.
30.400KWD / mo
Billed monthly
  • Unlimited users
  • Everything in Studio
  • SSO & SCIM
  • Custom branding
  • Onboarding manager
  • SLA
Talk to us
Ch. 05

Common questions.

Where is my data stored?

In the Gulf — AWS Bahrain (me-south-1) by default, with UAE (me-central-1) as a fallback. Encrypted at rest, encrypted in transit, never crosses out of the region.

Can I import my existing data?

Yes. CSV import for clients, vendors, employees and historical budgets. The template is two clicks away.

Which currencies do you handle?

KWD by default, with native support for SAR, AED, BHD, QAR, OMR. Three-decimal precision where the dinar needs it.

Do you support Arabic?

Bilingual UI with full RTL is on the roadmap for Q3 2026. Invoices and reports already render correctly in Arabic.

Can I self-host?

Contact help@retainr.tech

Run your agency. Not your spreadsheets.

Free for the first three teammates. Five minutes from sign-up to your first invoice. We'll be here when you outgrow it.

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