For SEO & content agencies
Bill the retainer.
Prove the rankings. Keep clients for years.
Hanko is the workspace SEO and content agencies run on, recurring retainer invoices, a branded portal where clients see the work and the wins, signed retainer agreements, and one-batch payouts to your writers and link builders.
Set up in minutes · One workspace · Get paid in fiat or crypto
Trusted by SEO and content agencies billing retainers across 40+ countries
The retainer treadmill
You rank pages all month, then lose a day to invoicing and "what am I actually paying for?" emails.
Retainer billing is a monthly chore
You rebuild and resend the same invoice for every client, every cycle, and chase the ones who pay late while the work piles up.
Clients can't see the value
Rankings move slowly, so the GA4 deck and the link report get lost in email and the client starts wondering what the retainer is for.
Retainers go unsigned
Work starts on a verbal yes, the agreement never gets signed, and three months in there's a scope dispute or a surprise cancellation.
Paying writers is a scramble
Every month you reconcile content briefs and link buys across PayPal, Wise and the odd crypto wallet, with no clean audit trail.
How it works
Up and running in three steps
No migration project, no five separate tools. Set it up once and run the whole client relationship from one place.
Set up the client's portal & retainer
Spin up a private, branded portal per client and pick a retainer agreement template with pre-placed signature fields and signer roles.
Sign it, then bill it monthly
Get the retainer e-signed in minutes, schedule the recurring invoice, and drop each month's reports and deliverables straight into the portal.
Get paid, then pay your team
Clients pay by card, bank or stablecoin onto one ledger, then pay your writers and link builders in a single batch, reconciliation-ready.
What you get
Everything the job needs, in one workspace
Retainers that bill themselves
Schedule the monthly retainer once and let it go out on time, every cycle, in your brand, with deposits and milestone billing for one-off audits and migrations.
- Recurring monthly retainer invoices on schedule
- 15 branded designs with your logo and color applied
- Deposits & milestone billing for audits and migrations
A portal that proves your worth
Give every client a private, branded portal that holds proposals, the signed retainer, invoices, files, payments and activity, so the monthly report and link reports live in one place they can always check.
- One private, branded portal per client
- Drop monthly reports, deliverables and link reports in
- Clients see what's signed, sent and paid at a glance
Sign the retainer, pay the team
Lock scope and terms with retainer, MSA and SOW templates that e-sign in minutes, then pay your freelance writers and link builders in one batch, each in the currency they want.
- Retainer, MSA & SOW templates ready to e-sign
- Legally-binding signatures with a full audit trail
- Pay writers and link builders in one batch
Recurring
Retainers bill on schedule every cycle
1 portal per client
Reports, contracts and invoices in one place
Fiat + crypto
Get paid, and pay your writers, however you prefer
“Invoicing every retainer used to eat half a day, and there was always a 'what are we paying for?' email by mid-month. Now the portal shows clients exactly what shipped, the invoice goes out on its own, and I pay our writers in one batch.”
Questions
Good questions, answered
Yes. Set up the retainer once and schedule a recurring invoice so it goes out on time every cycle, branded with your logo, and gets reconciled against payment automatically.
Run your SEO retainers in one workspace.
Set up your first client portal and retainer invoice today.
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