Questions, answered plainly.

No. Open the app and start typing. The editor, all four templates, the live preview and the pricing maths work straight away, and your draft autosaves to your browser so you can close the tab and come back to it.

An account is only needed for two things: saving proposals to the cloud, and buying Pro.

No. It runs in the browser. There is no desktop app, no extension and no mobile app to download — the site is responsive, so it works on a phone if you need to correct a number between meetings.

Four common freelance engagements, each pre-filled with realistic line items, rates and a timeline: a conversion website sprint, a brand starter kit, a monthly content retainer and an SEO launch plan. They are starting points — change every number if you want.

In your own browser's local storage, on your own device. It never reaches the server until you create an account and save. That also means clearing your browser data clears the draft, and a draft on your laptop is not visible on your phone.

Three things:

• Saving and syncing proposals to your account
• Print / PDF export
• Follow-up email drafting

Building, pricing, previewing and branding a proposal is free, with no limit on how many you make.

No. It does not expire, it does not count down, and it never asks for a card. If the free tier is all you need, that is a perfectly good outcome.

Honest answer: your browser's own print function exists and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What Pro gives you is a print stylesheet built for the proposal specifically — no sidebar, no buttons, no browser chrome — plus saving and follow-ups. If all you ever need is one rough printout, the free tier is fine.

You keep read and delete access to everything you already saved. Cancelling stops you saving new proposals to the cloud; it does not hold your existing work hostage. That is deliberate.

Stripe, entirely. You are redirected to Stripe Checkout, pay on their hosted page, and return to the app. Card details never reach our server and are never stored by us.

Stripe confirms the payment to our server separately from redirecting you back, so for a second or two after you land the account has not been told yet. The app polls for the update and unlocks itself as soon as the confirmation arrives — you do not need to refresh.

Account → Manage billing in the app, which opens Stripe's customer portal. Cancel there. You can also change your card and download past invoices from the same place. No email to us needed.

Your account panel shows the exact renewal date while Pro is active, and Stripe emails you a receipt for every charge. At $9/month there is no annual surprise to warn about.

There are no analytics scripts, no ad pixels and no third-party trackers on this site or in the app. The only external services involved are Stripe, when you actually go to checkout, and our email provider, only when you ask for a password reset link.

Saved proposals are stored on the server in order to sync them to you, so they are not end-to-end encrypted and an administrator could technically read the database. They are not shared, sold or used for anything else. Do not put information in a proposal that you would not put in an email.

Yes. In the app, open Create account, switch to Sign in and click Forgot your password?. We email a link that works once, for one hour. Setting a new password signs out every other device, so if someone else knew the old one they lose access too.

Email support@usescopepilot.com from the address on the account and it will be deleted, along with the proposals attached to it. Self-serve deletion is on the list.

No. ScopePilot produces the document and drafts the follow-up; you send both from your own email, from your own address. Deliverability, threading and the client's trust in the sender all work better that way.

Not currently. Proposals end with a clear reply-to-approve instruction and a deposit figure, which is enough to close most freelance work. E-signature is a genuine possibility later, not a hidden feature now.

Not yet — the proposal header uses your business name, positioning line and reply-to email as styled text. Image upload is not built.

Amounts are currently formatted as US dollars. If you price in another currency this will look wrong, and it is a known limitation rather than a decision.