Design agency management software
Run your creative studio from one configurable system. Manage clients, projects, branding, UX/UI, graphic design, packaging, web design and illustration services with automated workflows, flexible settings and integrations that support your existing design process.
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Add-on modules
Adapt the design agency scheduling software to your team’s workflow. Enable the features you need with one click, automate repetitive tasks, and reduce manual administration without a complex setup. -
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Scalable data management
Manage your growing design agency from one place. Add unlimited locations, users, services, and clients while keeping consultations, project-based services, team availability, and schedules organised in a central workspace. -
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IoT Ecosystem
Anolla connects digital workflows with physical systems when needed, including automated access control and lighting. This allows multi-location studios to offer 24/7 self-service while routine processes continue without constant manual intervention.
24/7 Sales Agent
Turn your design portfolio into a 24/7 virtual sales gallery – Anolla’s design booking software displays in real time available slots for brand strategy sessions, UX/UI workshops, identity packages and prototyping sprints, guiding the right clients to the right designers and packages via price inquiries, quick bookings or custom project requests.
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Service marketplace
Showcase your design services to prospective clients through the marketplace. Make your creative services easier to discover online and attract new enquiries without adding more manual marketing work. -
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Quotes and orders
Manage design work as profitable projects – receive detailed requests via Anolla for branding concepts, web design solutions, packaging design and UI systems, create personalised proposals, confirm scope of work and automatically convert accepted quotes into booked design projects so that no valuable creative opportunity is lost. -
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Interactive Business Profile
Bring all your creative studio operations into an interactive business profile – a single visual profile as a complete design services environment where clients can browse your portfolio 24/7, choose branding or UX/UI packages, book strategy sessions, confirm prototyping times, sign creative briefs and pay invoices conveniently within one design booking platform.
24/7 Contextual AI support
Use Anolla’s integrated AI assistant, available around the clock in multiple languages. It helps your clients and team get faster answers, provides context-aware guidance, and reduces the time spent managing design services and schedules.
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Contextual AI Assistant
The context-aware AI assistant handles many routine enquiries automatically and helps resolve more technical follow-up questions. By considering each user’s request, account activity, and relevant data, it delivers fast, personalised answers. -
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Automated customer communication
Automate client communication throughout the design process. Anolla sends timely, personalised notifications based on booking and project events, supports multiple languages, and securely records communication in one place. -
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24/7 Customer Support
Offer clients 24/7 AI chat support in most major languages. The assistant answers common questions, guides clients through bookings and design services, and provides help when your team is unavailable.
Trusted Platform
Trusted all-in-one design booking software – the preferred choice of hundreds of creative and branding agencies, advertising firms and independent designers. Replace fragmented calendar apps, separate quoting and contract tools, and scattered communication channels with a single integrated studio platform. Offer your brand clients a professional, seamless and high-end booking and project experience from the first appointment request to the final handover of design deliverables.
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Easy to Use
This scheduling app for designers is built for a quick setup, with a clear interface and 24/7 multilingual guidance. Designers, copywriters, studios, and agencies can configure their accounts independently and start managing availability, consultations, and client bookings quickly. -
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Unrivaled Value Proposition
Anolla’s fair, usage-based pricing means you pay only for what your team actually uses, with no hidden fees. The design agency scheduling software scales smoothly as your studio’s appointment, project, and resource management needs grow. -
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Real‑Time Support
Real-time support keeps work moving when your calendar includes multiple design projects, consultations, and client meetings. A context-aware AI agent resolves many routine questions and works with automation integrations to reduce manual administration. -
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Security and Compliance
Anolla protects your agency’s and clients’ data with encryption, continuous monitoring, and cloud backups. These safeguards provide more dependable protection than local servers, while GDPR compliance lets you grow your design services with confidence.
Customer Experience
Customer stories, user feedback, and measurable results show how Anolla helps designers manage schedules more efficiently, deliver a better client experience, and support sustainable agency growth.
Customer Success 360°
In the world of design and branding services, Customer Success 360° means that your booking software is no longer just a calendar tool but a strategic partner in growing your creative business. By combining 24/7 context-aware support, detailed project and booking analytics, and customizable client portals, Anolla helps you prevent project delays, identify the highest-potential brand clients, optimize studio slot utilization, and increase the share of repeat bookings. This keeps your design team’s schedule, creative workload, and client expectations in balance.
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360° Personalization
360° personalization creates a unique booking journey for every brand and design-service client, based on their previous projects, preferred design direction, budget and collaboration model. The system offers smart suggestions – for example, the right brand strategy package, UX/UI sprint, visual identity refresh or product photography session – and shows only those times and designers for quick booking that match the client’s profile. Multilingual 24/7 chat support and one-click repeat bookings make the entire design-service purchasing process smooth and strengthen your studio’s reputation as a professional, client-centric brand partner. -
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Customer Management
Design studio customer management (CRM) consolidates all client data related to brand, project and campaign work into a real-time updated database – create segmented client groups, add strategic notes, personalize design and consulting proposals and grow your base of repeat clients with smart customer journey management. -
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Bookings for website and sharing
Create and share booking links and QR codes tailored specifically for design services – every portfolio page, Instagram bio, Behance profile, Dribbble gallery or “Book brand strategy” button on your website becomes a direct connection to booking a design consultation, brand workshop or design project. -
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Online payments
Collect secure deposits when clients book consultations, creative briefings, or design reviews. An appointment is confirmed only after payment is received, helping your agency reduce no-shows and protect revenue. -
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Automated Waitlist
An automated waitlist fills newly available time slots, even outside business hours. Clients are notified when a suitable appointment opens, helping your design studio keep calendars full and make better use of team capacity. -
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Translation Management
Let design clients book in their preferred language, from service descriptions to confirmations and reminders. Centralised language settings simplify localisation and support international clients across different countries, currencies, and time zones.
Customer Loyalty Analytics
Customer loyalty analytics shows in real time which brands, marketing agencies and online stores are your design studio’s most valuable partners and which design packages, maintenance contracts and visual identity refreshes they prefer – enabling you to offer personalised pricing, optimise studio time allocation and increase total project-based revenue.
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Memberships
Create tiered loyalty or client programmes for your design services. Membership levels run automatically, with tailored benefits for services, session packages, and passes at each tier. -
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Passes and Tickets
Prepaid design passes, consultation packages and punch cards (e.g. 5× brand strategy session, 10× design hour) ensure stable cash flow and repeat projects – automatic tracking of usage allocates branding, content creation and graphic design workloads without manual administration. -
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Recurring Subscriptions
Recurring subscriptions create automatically renewing subscription-based access to design services – monthly design credits, ongoing UX/UI maintenance, regular brand visual updates and content creation retainers provide a predictable monthly cash flow and continuous creative support for your clients’ brands. -
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Email Campaigns
Send design studio email campaigns to exactly the right client segment – export client groups that have shown interest in branding, web design or illustration packages to your email marketing platform with one click, to showcase new design bundles, seasonal rebranding offers and creative workshops with measurably better results.
Design service booking software
Let clients book brand strategy sessions, UX/UI consultations, creative workshops and other design services online. Manage individual appointments and group sessions, automate confirmations and reminders, track approvals and activity, and reduce time spent coordinating bookings manually.
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Group Bookings
Automated group bookings for design and creative workshops – set participant limits, distribute groups across studios or instructors, and manage real-time participant lists, including recurring course and training groups. -
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Multi-Resource Booking
Multi-design-resource booking in a single transaction – let clients reserve a creative studio, workstation, photo corner, prototyping area, equipment kit or training room at once, ideal for managing design events, branding packages and complex productions. -
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Hourly and Daily Services
Manage all design services in one platform – hourly graphic design, day-based brand strategy sessions, multi-day UX/UI sprints and long-term product development projects are structured into a single booking flow tailored to your studio’s business model. -
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Variable-Duration Services
Create variable-duration design services – clients choose the length of consultations, mockup design, branding workshops or prototyping sessions, ensuring flexible time use, better studio occupancy and higher project revenue. -
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Flexible Booking Rules
Design studio, designer, and agency-specific booking rules – set minimum and maximum session lengths, cancellation and prepayment terms, confirmation workflows, and manage a color-coded calendar in day, week, or month view for all projects and photo shoots.
Scheduling software for creative teams
Plan project schedules, team availability, production time, creative resources and studio locations in one place. Real-time updates and role-based access help your agency prevent conflicts, balance workloads and keep consultations, project meetings and deadlines on track.
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Schedules
Smartly timed schedules synchronize designer, studio space, and equipment availability with the online calendar – set regular working hours, shooting days, and exceptions (launches, production days, trade fairs) in a few clicks and the design booking calendar updates automatically. -
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Time Blocking
Flexible time blocking for creative projects – add single or recurring blocks for branding sprints, photo shoots, editing or concept work, using precise time, date and weekday filters to protect focus time and manage your design studio’s availability without confusion. -
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Resource Management
Efficient design resource management – link studios, lighting and photo equipment, prototyping machines, sample collections and props to specific design packages and shooting schedules, avoiding double bookings and downtime while increasing studio utilization and revenue. -
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Access Management
Precisely controlled access in design booking software – configure role-based permissions for designers, photographers, stylists, project managers and clients to view services, studios and projects, and customise automated notifications so each party only sees and approves what relates to their design projects.
Mobile-first software
Mobile-first design booking software – an intuitive interface for designers and clients, real-time cloud sync with studio calendars, and instant app notifications about changes, confirmations, and file sharing ensure a smooth booking experience in the office, studio, or on set on any device.
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Cloud-based access
Access your design agency scheduling software securely from the office, during client meetings, or while working remotely. Data stays automatically synchronized, while reliability and security are continuously monitored to make managing your design business easier. -
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Cross-platform ecosystem
A cross-platform design booking software ecosystem from Mac/PC to iOS and Android – start a design project or time planning on one device and continue on another with the same smooth, creativity-optimized user experience. -
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Admin app
A fully mobile-friendly design studio management app for iOS and Android – 100% of the web version’s functionality, instant in-app notifications, and the ability to manage studio schedules, consultations, photo shoots, and project bookings from anywhere. -
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Client app
The client-facing design booking app (iOS, Android, web) offers a visually clear overview of available design services, studio schedule and package options – bookings, time changes and confirmations are handled with just a few taps. -
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Instant app notifications
Real-time app notifications for every client action in your design booking system – new branding and web design bookings, studio consultation requests, cancellations, file uploads and messages reach you instantly in both browser and mobile.
Personalized automated notifications
Set up automated, on-brand notifications based on design service, studio location, project phase and channel (email/SMS) – personalized messages reach the right clients at the right moment, preserving your design studio’s signature style and professional communication.
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Automated confirmations
Automatic booking and project confirmations via email and SMS create confidence for both the client and the design team – every new studio visit, consultation, or design package change is instantly recorded and sent out. -
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Reminders
Automated SMS and email reminders reduce missed consultations and notify clients about design appointments at the right time. SMS messages are delivered quickly even when clients do not have internet access. -
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Automatic feedback collection
After each appointment or completed service, Anolla automatically asks the client for a rating and comments. This feedback provides practical insights that help designers and design agencies continually improve their services and client experience.
Dynamic pricing
Dynamic pricing adjusts the fees of design packages, branding services, UX/UI consulting and photo sessions based on time of day, season, client segment and studio occupancy – one of the most flexible pricing modules on the market for creating campaigns, VIP packages and project-based discounts, maximizing studio revenue.
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Time-based special pricing
Time-based special pricing allows you to create automatic discounts based on session duration, date, time, day of the week, specific design service and client membership – filling slower time windows, managing studio resource use intelligently and optimizing the profitability of each working day. -
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Resource-based pricing
Resource-based pricing for design studios – adjust hourly rates and project durations for graphic design, branding, UX/UI design, and web design according to the designer’s portfolio level, niche, workload, and demand, so that the value of each creative solution is reflected as accurately as possible in the price. -
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Discounted rates
Dynamic discounts for creative projects – activate seasonal branding packages, new client design campaigns and loyalty discounts for returning customers with a single click, showing compelling discounts and clearly crossed-out standard prices to drive more design bookings into your preferred time slots.
Data-driven analytics
Grow your design agency in a data-driven way – track which branding and web design packages generate the most bookings, measure margins on design solutions, connect the booking journey to Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Meta Pixel, and export raw data to BI or ML platforms to optimise pricing, service structure and the entire creative client journey.
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Real-time statistics
See your design business performance in real time – the dashboard shows up-to-the-second revenue from graphic design and UX/UI projects, your most popular branding packages, studio occupancy and new clients, so you can quickly adjust pricing, time planning and your design team’s workload. -
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Web analytics integrations
Connect design bookings with precise web analytics – integrate Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Meta Pixel to measure which portfolio pages, design packages and campaign landings generate the most booked consultations, and which creative ads convert visitors into real design projects. -
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BI & AI readiness
Turn your design studio data into a strategic advantage – export booking and revenue data to Excel, Google Sheets or directly into BI and AI tools at any time to compile comprehensive reports, forecast seasonal demand for different design packages and build predictive models for team workload, pricing and project delivery planning.
Flexible pricing
Flexible pricing for design studios – a transparent usage-based model that adapts to the needs of solo graphic designers and large creative agencies, supports seasonal branding campaigns, enables modular feature add-ons, and eliminates hidden fees for managing design bookings.
Free software
Start design booking for free – create a professional online booking calendar for your design consultations, intro meetings and core packages, testing Anolla’s basic design booking features with no risk and no technical development.
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Paid features
Start with free software and activate paid features as needed and as your business grows.
Paid featuresAnolla usage statistics
These metrics are based on anonymized Anolla usage data, design agency scheduling software configurations, the feature catalogue, in-app feedback, and service monitoring. They reflect actual usage and configuration patterns and do not guarantee specific results for any design agency.
Officially supported languages
26
The number of languages officially supported across Anolla’s user interface, notifications, AI assistance, and customer support workflows.
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Overall in-app user rating
4.8/5
The weighted average of in-app user ratings, combining feedback on design scheduling workflows, support conversations, and customer experience analytics.
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Measured platform uptime
99.96%
The measured uptime and availability of Anolla’s public core services, based on continuous service monitoring data.
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AI support availability
24/7
The availability of Anolla’s AI assistant for guiding designers and agency teams and automatically handling recurring support requests.
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AI-resolved support chats
79.3%
The percentage of support conversations resolved by the AI assistant without intervention from a customer support specialist.
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Advanced features activated via self-service
12
The number of optional features that design agencies can activate with one click through self-service settings.
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Full online payment flow with prepayment
100%
The percentage of bookings with integrated online payments that require a deposit or full prepayment before the design service booking is confirmed.
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Core feature coverage in mobile apps
99%
Percentage of core web features supported in Anolla’s iOS and Android scheduling app for designers.
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Unedited AI-generated support responses
52.4%
Percentage of AI-generated support ticket responses that required no substantive edits from the technical support team.
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Management accounts using automated notifications
90%
Percentage of active admin accounts using event-based automated notifications to coordinate design project schedules and client communication.
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Independently completed initial setup
85%
Percentage of new users who completed their online account setup independently, without additional training or support.
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Active accounts using advanced features
41.2%
Percentage of active accounts using at least one advanced feature to expand or automate design service workflows.
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Anolla ratings on Capterra
Alongside Anolla’s anonymized usage data, the independent software review site Capterra collects customer feedback about Anolla. The ratings below show how users evaluate their experience with the design agency scheduling software.
★★★★★
5.0/5
Ease of use
★★★★★
5.0/5
Features and functionality
★★★★★
4.7/5
Value for money
Ratings are based on user reviews from the independent software portal Capterra.
Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions about Anolla design booking software – clear answers for design studios, creative agencies and freelance designers to understand functionality, pricing, integrations and data security so you can confidently start managing branding and web design bookings.
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keyboard_arrow_downHow is Anolla different from typical design service booking software?Basic booking tools usually focus on appointment scheduling and calendar management. Anolla brings bookings, client management, automation, flexible pricing, and online payments together in one AI powered design agency scheduling software. Design studios and agencies can manage client consultations, creative sessions, and longer project periods from one place. It supports hourly and multi day bookings, works online and through mobile apps, can be used worldwide, and offers multiple languages. Its flexible setup makes Anolla suitable for independent designers, creative teams, and larger organizations.
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keyboard_arrow_downDoes Anolla support hourly and multi-day design bookings at the same time?Yes, this is one of Anolla’s most important competitive advantages for design and creative agencies. Unlike many standard solutions, Anolla does not force a studio to choose only hourly consultations or only project-based booking. The platform simultaneously handles hourly design consultations, UX workshops and strategy sessions as well as multi-day branding, web design and visual identity projects. In addition, you can configure design packages with variable duration and iterative sprints. All bookings are managed in parallel under a single design studio account and are consolidated into one clear project calendar. Thanks to this, Anolla is an ideal fit for hybrid business models such as branding agencies, UX/UI studios, creative co-working hubs, photo and video production studios and design consultancies.
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keyboard_arrow_downHow does the Anolla AI assistant reduce a design studio’s administrative workload and human errors?Anolla's automated AI customer support assistant is available around the clock and resolves a large share of chat inquiries independently. Automated client communication reduces repetitive administration, helps prevent human error, and gives your team more time to deliver creative work and grow the agency.
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keyboard_arrow_downHow does Anolla’s dynamic pricing module help design studios offer optimized prices to clients?The Anolla dynamic pricing module automates a design studio’s pricing strategy for both hourly design consultations and fixed project packages. The studio can create flexible rules to adjust prices based on time of day, seasonality, workload, the complexity of branding or UX/UI services, and client segment (for example, new brand, growth company, agency partner). All price adjustments are applied automatically according to the defined business rules and studio workload. The system helps sell lower-demand time slots – such as weekday midday hours or seasonally quieter periods – at better prices to keep the design team’s schedule full. During peak hours, weekends or last-minute projects, the modular pricing model allows the studio to maximize project margins and total revenue. The objective is to simultaneously increase studio utilization, average order value and the overall profitability of the creative business.
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keyboard_arrow_downIs Anolla suitable both for an independent designer and for a multi-location design agency?Yes, Anolla is built to scale from individual freelance designers to international branding and UX agencies with multiple studios across different cities. A solo designer can start with the powerful free plan, which covers core needs such as booking design projects, maintaining a client database, managing contracts and sending automatic reminders. Multi-location creative teams can use a centralized dashboard to manage different studios, design teams, specialists (graphic designers, UX strategists, copywriters, photographers), brand portfolios and resource calendars. The platform lets you add unlimited studio locations and user accounts, while role- and location-based access control (RBAC) ensures secure access to projects, proposals, pricing and client contracts according to each team member’s role (studio lead, project manager, designer, accountant).
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keyboard_arrow_downWhich tools does Anolla integrate with for design and creative teams?Anolla is built with an API-first architecture, making it an ideal central platform in a design studio’s ecosystem. The platform supports key integrations with payment solutions like Stripe, which simplifies up-front payments for design packages, recurring retainers and brand management fees, as well as project-based billing. For marketing and analytics, Anolla supports integrations with Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Meta Pixel to measure the performance of booking flows, campaigns and landing pages. Raw data can be exported to BI and ML tools to analyze the studio’s sales funnel, conversion rates and resource utilization. In addition, Anolla offers a powerful API for integration with project management platforms (e.g. Jira, ClickUp, Asana), file management (e.g. Google Drive, Dropbox), accounting software and other critical systems for creative businesses.
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keyboard_arrow_downWhat does the free plan include and what do the paid features add for a design studio?Anolla's free plan includes the essential tools needed to launch a professional booking flow for a design or branding studio without an upfront investment. It provides a design service booking calendar, basic client CRM, email and SMS reminders, straightforward price list management, and initial reporting. This makes it a practical scheduling app for designers, freelancers, and small creative teams that want to organize bookings and client communication quickly. Paid plans add unlimited automation for complex booking flows, intelligent follow ups, and multistage approvals, plus advanced integrations with marketing and project management tools. Client loyalty features support repeat bookings, brand clubs, discount programs, and VIP client management.
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keyboard_arrow_downHow does Anolla’s usage-based pricing help a design studio mitigate business risks?Anolla’s usage-based pricing model is specifically designed to reduce the business risks of creative and design studios. Branding agencies, UX/UI teams and freelance designers don’t have to pay high fixed monthly fees during periods when project volume is lower or seasonally variable. Platform costs always scale in proportion to the actual number of bookings, active projects and system usage, ensuring a stable cost structure during rapid growth, seasonal campaigns and quieter months alike. This approach is especially suitable for seasonal design services (such as Christmas campaign visuals, seasonal brand campaigns and trade show materials) and for companies where demand for design projects fluctuates with the market or campaign cycles.
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keyboard_arrow_downHow quickly can I start working with Anolla design booking software?Getting started takes only a few minutes, with a context aware AI assistant available around the clock to guide you through setup. Most users can configure their account independently, making the implementation of agency scheduling software quick, simple, and smooth.
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keyboard_arrow_downWhat makes Anolla’s design booking platform a future-proof solution?Anolla is a future-proof design booking platform thanks to its scalable modular architecture, created specifically for the needs of creative studios and design agencies. The cloud-based infrastructure and AI-powered learning system enable the platform to quickly adapt to new booking models, service packages and market trends (such as service-based design, sustainable branding, remote collaboration). Unlike static solutions, Anolla is built around a powerful API that makes it the central core of the studio’s entire technical ecosystem. The extensible modular platform also supports IoT integrations, such as studio door access control, smart access to rentable shooting or prototyping spaces, and sensor-based room usage monitoring. This architecture allows us to continuously connect Anolla with the latest technologies, design workflows and marketing channels, keeping a design studio’s tools consistently at the technological and competitive forefront of the market.
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