Everything waiting for you, by type: quotes to decide, invoices to file or mark paid, releases to file, agreements to acknowledge, applications to look at.

Every enquiry from the website contact form lands in Lead on its own. Drag a deal between stages (⌘-click a column’s fold, or Ctrl on Windows, to fold or open them all). Click a card to read the full enquiry or edit it. Totals per stage show the value in play.

Everyone who works with ThinkStory — full-time staff and contractors. Add people by hand, or they join automatically the moment they sign the Service Provider Agreement on the site. Click a name to edit their details and keep their signed documents together.

Everyone outside ThinkStory that you work with — clients, stakeholders, suppliers and anyone else worth keeping close. Add anyone, keep their details current, and export them straight to a phone or computer.

Models, drone operators and everyone else you book for a job — the people it used to take a trawl through Legal to find. Import brings in everyone who has signed a model release or drone permission, with their signed document attached. Keep their fee, their sizes and anything else worth remembering in Notes.

The companies behind your contacts, kept separately — addresses, VAT and registration numbers, and everything an invoice needs. The people linked to each company show on its page.

People who have emailed you and are not in the database yet, picked up straight from your inbox. Their email signature fills in what it can — job title, mobile number, company — so adding someone is one click and a glance. Dismissing someone blocks them for good, and after two from the same place the whole domain goes with them. Newsletters, no-reply addresses and your own mail never reach this list. Nothing is ever added, sent or replied to on its own.

Everyone who has applied through thinkstory.co.za/join — the form suppliers and freelancers fill in to join the team. Click a name to see everything they sent, read their CV and leave a note. Nothing here is visible to them.

Every page on the website. The list is rebuilt each time the site is published, so a new story or article turns up here on its own. Click a link to open it; click the path to copy it. Access codes show against the pages that need one — click a code to copy it. They are only ever sent to someone signed in with Website access, and Copy all leaves them out.

What you publish here is live on /store within a minute, no deploy needed. Drafts are only visible to you. Previews are watermarked automatically when you upload a still; the clean master never leaves storage until a paid order.

Pieces

Who can sign in to this dashboard and what they can see. Click a person to manage them. People from a client company wear that company’s colour on the board; ThinkStory people choose their own.