Glossary of Terms

A guidebook for commonly used terms within the platform.

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Automated Clearing House (ACH)

ACH is an electronic network of processing transactions between participating financial institutions. Clients are able to pay your invoices with an ACH transfer and this incurs a 1% transfer fee.

AI-Generated Proposal tool

Artificial Intelligence generator tool helps you create proposals from scratch by using the key information you provide like the name of the project and what you wanted to be about. Learn more about AI generated proposals.

Admin

An admin is a member of a Wethos Teams account that has been given access by the owner of the account by creating their own email address and password. Learn more about Wethos Teams.


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Backstop Date

The last date in which work for the project can be carried out.

Brand

Or "Studio Brand" is the visual representation of your business reflected in your studio and scope through your logo, brand name, colors, and text.


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Contractor

A person you're connected with or would like to connect with to build your network or a project team. You can add contractors to the Contractors page and invite them to Wethos by simply adding their name, email, title, and URL.

Custom Service

The product or offering your studio sells customized to fit your business needs. Each service includes a name, price, description, and role.

Clients

A client pipeline that shows all of the clients and accompanying projects you create.


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Deliverable

A deliverable is a set of work that results in the delivery of a tangible asset or value to clients, for which clients pay money.

Deposit

To add money from your linked bank account into your Wethos Payments Account.

Discoverable Profile

A Wethos profile that can be viewed by all Wethos users on the People page.


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Expenses

The money you spend on something. Expenses will appear as line items in your Transactions tab and you can designate additional expenses when creating an invoice for your client.

Expiration Date

The date in which the contract will expire if not signed.


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Feature

A specific piece of functionality that has a corresponding benefit or set of benefits for the user.

Feedback Rounds

A set number of sessions with the client to discuss any changes or assess the progress of the project. This is an opportunity to prevent scope creep from your client.


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General Terms

Legal contract language that can be added to your scope to define and govern any specifics of doing business together. You can provide your own contract language or leverage this reference from Wethos.


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Invoice Schedule

A plan for sending out your invoices to clients to set clear expectations for when payments are due.


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Linked Account

An external bank account that is linked to your Wethos Payments Account for the purpose of transferring money by deposit or withdrawal.

Library

The library is your saved and personalized list of templates for scopes, contract terms, and services. These can either be saved from the Wethos Templates or ones that you’ve created from scratch.


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Manage

A feature to track your project’s progress, specifically which teammates are responsible for which deliverables, their due dates, how much each teammate is earning, and when payouts are due. Mark services as complete to automatically update the budget and timeline.

Markup Fee

Also known as an agency or management fee, a dollar amount or percentage added to your project scopes to ensure a specific amount of profit is made.


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Open Roles

The roles within your project that have yet to be filled by teammates.

Other Projects

A project pipeline other studios have added you to in addition to projects you've created. Think of it as an aggregate of all of your projects.

Owner

The owner of a Wethos Teams account is the original creator of the account and the person that owns the subscription to Wethos Teams. They will have full access to all of the account features and tools as well as be the only person with view of the Wethos Payments Account details. Owners will also be responsible for inviting admins into the account.


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Pay

The tab specific to each project that shows all expenses, transactions, and payouts. You can invoice clients and payout teammates from this tab.

People

Find new contractors to add to your network or form the perfect team for a project. Search and filter by keywords and tags within the Contractors page, allowing you to narrow in on the right collaborators to save or reach out to.

Phase

A distinct stage of services in a scope that marks a series of events, time, or a process of development. Examples of phases are in time (April, May), events (Phase I, Phase II), process (Research, Strategy, Execution), etc.

Profile

A profile is a collection of your work experience and expertise, packaged up to share with other Wethos contractors. Your profile includes work samples that you showcase, a profile picture and social links, and information used to help other studios discover you - your industries, services, tools, causes, and languages.

My Projects

A project pipeline private to you where all of the projects you create will appear. Similarly, "Other Projects" is a project pipeline other studios have added you to in addition to projects you've created. Think of it as an aggregate of all of your projects.

Project Goals

A space to add notes to your scope including the goals and purpose of the project.

Project Status

The dynamic state of a project defined as either a lead (initial interest state), won (scope signed and closed), lost (scope declined or rejected), in progress (project underway), or complete (project complete).


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Role

A title assigned to a service as a way of categorizing the type of teammate or expertise needed to execute on the service.


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Scope

A detailed outline of a project, identifying the services to be executed, the cost of the services, and the designated roles that will execute on those services. A scope is organized by phase and may include due dates, client goals, general terms, and an invoicing schedule.

Scope Creep

The common occurrence of the scope, services, or features on a project expanding from what was originally set, without being accounted for in additional time or budget.

Scope Template

A group of pre-set, adjustable services that act as an example of what a project could consist of. Wethos includes native scope of work templates from Wethos' former agency, peer-priced templates from the community, and your own templates. The scopes that you create become your own set of templates that can be accessed for an even quicker scoping experience. Also known as "Template."

Services

The product or offering your studio sells. Each service includes a name, price, description, and role. All services can be edited to fit a client or project need.

Service Library

A collection of custom services or peer-priced services that can be used to scope projects quickly.

Signer

The client-side contact who will sign the scope or contract.

Studio Brand

The visual representation of your business reflected in your studio and scope through your logo, brand name, colors, and text.


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Tags

A label that helps identify certain aspects of the platform. Tags can be added to your profile to help the community search for you or they can be added to your scope to help you quickly search for it and reuse components of it.

Teammates

The contractors who are working on a project with you.

Template

A group of pre-set, adjustable services that act as an example of what a project could consist of. Wethos includes native scope of work templates from Wethos' former agency, peer-priced templates from the community, and your own templates. The scopes that you create become your own set of templates that can be accessed for an even quicker scoping experience. Also known as "Scope Template."

Timeline

A list of events that is automatically generated when you create a scope that includes due dates. Timelines can be used to track the progress of your project, team, and budget.

Transactions

Any movement of money within your Wethos Payments Account is listed as a transaction, including expenses or payments for a project. It's also the tab where this information is listed. Go to your transactions.

Transfer

Move money from one account to another.


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Virtual Studio

A virtual studio is your space to scope projects, team up, and pay your collaborators all in one place. Studios have services that are sold to clients, a brand that makes them unique, collaborators as part of a network, and scopes that bring all of the moving parts together.


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Wethos

Wethos is a first-of-its-kind platform that enables creative studios to instantly scope work, staff projects, and manage budgets all in one place.

Wethos Pro

Wethos Pro is our middle tier subscription. With a Wethos pro account you can get access to premium features to help you take the guesswork out of growing your independent business. You can read more about Wethos Pro here

Wethos Teams

Wethos Teams is for those who are looking to scale up their business. With Teams, you can collaborate on proposals and invoices with a team-wide template library and create alignment with your team for full visibility across proposal and invoice pipelines. You can read more about Wethos Teams here

Wethos Services Library

The entire suite of data-backed, peer-priced services available to be saved to your Templates.

Withdrawal

The removal of money from your Wethos Payments Account into a linked bank account.


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