Bonsai, formerly Hello Bonsai, helps firms scope projects, track time, and watch margins. Wayfront helps agencies package services, sell them online, collect the right brief, deliver consistently, and keep clients coming back.
Bonsai manages projects. Wayfront runs the business around them.
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Both products cover clients, projects, invoices, and a portal. The useful difference is what starts the work and what your team manages after it.
Build proposals and contracts, staff the project, track time and budgets, invoice the client, then measure utilization and profitability.
The client chooses a package, pays, completes the right intake, and enters a delivery flow your team has already built.
If every sale begins with a proposal and every invoice starts with a timesheet, Bonsai fits. If clients can choose a service, pay, onboard, track delivery, and renew through one branded portal, Wayfront fits.
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Set the package, price, billing schedule, capacity, add-ons, and delivery rules once. Clients get a clear offer. Your team gets the same clean starting point every time.
Packages instead of blank proposals. Give clients clear choices and pricing for work you sell every week.
Add-ons without another sales call. Let clients add volume, speed, or related services during checkout.
Subscriptions that stay connected. Keep recurring billing, active services, delivery, and upgrades in the same client account.
Form rules change the intake based on the service, package, quantity, or add-on. Your team gets a useful brief without copying answers from a generic questionnaire.
Files, answers, due dates, and client messages stay attached to the order and project that need them.
Turn each purchase into the right project, tasks, assignees, statuses, and client-facing steps. Your SOP lives in the workflow instead of a document people forget to open.
Projects created from the service. Match templates, tasks, and assignees to what the client bought.
Approvals beside the deliverable. Keep feedback and sign-off with the work instead of rebuilding the thread in email.
Support with account context. The helpdesk brings the client's orders, projects, payments, and history into the conversation.
Bonsai gives clients access to project progress, billing, files, and messages. Wayfront supports a custom domain and a portal home you can build from services, tasks, reports, forms, videos, FAQs, and embeds.
Bonsai gives service firms project, staffing, and financial control. Wayfront carries repeatable services from the first purchase through delivery, support, and the next sale.
Bonsai is built around the commercial and financial control of individually scoped projects.
Pricing scales per user. It fits firms where utilization and project margin are the management center.
Wayfront connects the work around a project so an agency can sell and deliver the same service repeatedly.
Platform plans include 5 or 10 team seats and unlimited clients, with no Wayfront transaction fee on services sold.
Wayfront starts at $129 per month. The investment covers the work that turns a service into revenue: selling the order, starting the right delivery process, keeping support in context, and making the next purchase easier.
Every client engagement needs its own scope, staffing, time budget, and profitability view.
Clients buy repeatable services and your team follows a process you want to run the same way again.
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Yes. Wayfront is a Bonsai alternative for agencies that sell repeatable fixed-scope and recurring services. Bonsai centers on projects, time, staffing, budgets, contracts, and profitability. Wayfront centers on service checkout, intake, repeatable delivery, approvals, support, billing, and renewals.
Choose Bonsai when each engagement is scoped separately and the business runs on proposals, contracts, tracked time, staffing, budgets, and profitability. It is a strong fit for custom and time-led consulting work.
Choose Wayfront when clients buy fixed-scope services, retainers, or subscriptions and your team follows a repeatable delivery process. Wayfront connects checkout, intake, projects, approvals, support, billing, and renewals in one branded portal.
Wayfront gives clients everything Bonsai's portal does: project progress, billing, files, team members, and messages. It also lets them buy services, complete intake, follow delivery, approve work, request support, pay, and renew. The whole client relationship stays in one branded portal.
Bonsai charges per user, with monthly plans from $15 to $59 per user. Wayfront Base is $129 per month with 5 seats and unlimited clients. Wayfront Pro is $299 per month with 10 seats and unlimited clients. Annual billing lowers Wayfront Base to $99 per month and Pro to $249 per month.
