“I could do this with a spreadsheet, Venmo, and email.”

The arithmetic of your hour

Directors in our community typically charge around $70 a session. That number is what your hour is worth — and it prices everything else you do with one:

• An hour spent chasing a payment, updating a spreadsheet, or hand-writing a receipt costs you a session’s worth of your time.
• Six or seven hours reconstructing a year of income at tax time costs half a week of sessions.
• The Solo plan ($25/month) costs about a third of one session. The Professional plan ($49/month) costs less than one. If Directee returns you a single hour a month, it has already paid for itself.

This isn’t an expense that competes with your practice. It’s the cheapest hour you’ll buy back all month.

What the spreadsheet actually costs

The spreadsheet system works — right up until it quietly doesn’t. Payments land in three apps and a memory. Notes live in a drawer, a doc, and two notebooks. Nobody sends receipts. The year-end accounting becomes an archaeology project. None of that is a moral failing; it’s what happens when a vocation grows past the tools it started with. Professionalizing the practice isn’t about becoming corporate — it’s about honoring the work, and the people who trust you with it, with the same care you bring to the hour itself.

What Directee does with those hours today

Your calendar becomes your practice

Connect Cal.com once and every booking, reschedule, and cancellation becomes an appointment matched to the right directee — with free built-in video conferencing if you want it.

Notes where they belong

Quick note-taking with templates and prompts, filed with the directee they belong to, visible to you alone. Not a document folder you have to keep honest.

Invoices that send and settle themselves

Stripe-backed invoices and payment links on your rhythm — per session, monthly, retainer — reconciled when paid, receipts your directees can keep for their own records.

Tax season, already done

Income, expenses, and a profit-and-loss view aggregate all year. The six or seven hours you spend every spring reconstructing scraps of paper simply stop existing.

One message to everyone

Broadcast email to your whole practice — schedule changes, retreat announcements, a pastoral word — without BCC gymnastics.

Documents kept, not scattered

Covenants, intake forms, shared readings — stored with the person, not on a desktop.

Where this is going

Directee is built alongside working directors, and the road map comes from their practices, not a product brainstorm. Coming to the platform:

Forward a receipt, and it’s recorded

Payment came through Venmo, PayPal, or e-transfer? Forward the receipt email to your Directee address and it gets captured, matched, and recorded — one less scrap of paper at tax time.

Bring whichever calendar you use

Google Calendar, Outlook, and Zoho integrations are on the road — bring your tool, and Directee builds your practice view around it.

Guided directee onboarding

Send one link to a prospective directee: the paperwork gets created, tracked, and checked off — including a fit-conversation session you can charge partially or credit toward their first month.

Session and invoice reminders

Gentle nudges to directees about upcoming sessions and open invoices, so you never have to be the one who asks twice.