A: Hey, thanks for the detail, that actually makes it easy to give you a real answer instead of a generic one. Let me go through it piece by piece.

Client intake: honestly, this isn't something Hoursmith does, and I'd rather tell you that than dance around it. It's not a forms or lead-capture tool, so Google Forms would stay exactly where it is for that first step. Once someone signs on as a client, you'd add them into Hoursmith and everything from there on, projects, time, invoices, lives in one place.

Clients and projects: this is where Hoursmith is built to live. You'd set up each client once, then create a project under them for each engagement, a sponsored content piece, a career coaching package, whatever the work is. Tasks sit under projects, so you can break things down further if you want that level of detail, or keep it simple if you don't.

Invoicing and payments, this is the direct swap for Square. A few things make it different: payments route into your own Stripe account, not through Hoursmith, so the money is yours from the first second, not something passing through a middleman. Invoices go out branded with your own logo and sent from your own email domain, so they look like they came from you, not from billing software. And since it sounds like your work isn't purely hourly, sponsored posts and career packages are often flat fee, you can add fixed-fee line items right on an invoice alongside any hourly work, so a flat $500 sponsored post and a few hourly revision rounds can sit on the same bill.

Deliverables is the one place I want to be upfront with you. Hoursmith isn't a project management tool with draft tracking, approval rounds, or a content calendar built in, and that's on purpose, I built it to stay a focused billing and time tool rather than trying to be everything. If you need to track draft versions or client approvals, you'd keep that in whatever you use today, Hoursmith would just be where the time, invoicing, and payment side lives.

So the honest summary: Hoursmith replaces Square cleanly and gives you real client and project organization on top of it. It won't replace Google Forms for intake or a project tool for deliverables tracking. If that split works for how you operate, happy to get you a trial so you can see it against your actual client list rather than take my word for it.