Cord
From proposal to payment. All in a single link.
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From proposal to payment. All in a single link.
18 followers
Cord centralizes your entire commercial cycle in one interactive experience: margin-intelligent proposals, legally binding approval, automated collections, and invoicing — your client never downloads anything or creates an account.
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Hey Product Hunt! 👋 I'm André, maker of Cord.
I run a custom web dev agency alongside my partner Diego. Because we deal with high-ticket custom software globally, our sales cycles are notoriously slow.
The Problem: For years, our biggest nightmare was the closing stage. We would send a static PDF proposal, wait weeks for a client's board to approve it, watch the multi-currency exchange rate drift, and then have to chase them down again just to get the actual invoice paid.
The Solution: I built Cord to completely eliminate this friction. Cord replaces static PDFs with live, interactive web links. But it’s not just a quoting tool—it’s a complete, global B2B sales and revenue infrastructure.
Here is what we built:
Real-Time FX Locking: The exact millisecond a client hits "Approve" on their browser, the backend deterministically freezes the multi-currency exchange rate.
Cord Payments (Instant Global Checkout): Powered by a deep Stripe Connect integration, clients can pay directly from the approved quote via international credit cards or local bank transfer methods depending on their region. Funds land directly in your bank account.
Automated Invoicing: Seamless, automated billing generation built right into the closing flow to keep your accounting clean across borders.
Developer-First Architecture: We built robust API keys stored as irreversible sha-256 hashes. If our system detects a leaked sk_live_ key on public GitHub repos, automated fraud mechanisms preemptively suspend it. We also ship with React and Next.js SDKs, webhooks, and a dedicated Cord Workbench.
What started as an internal tool to stop our agency from bleeding money on currency drift is now a standalone, bootstrapped global SaaS.
I’ll be hanging out here all day. I would absolutely love your raw, unfiltered feedback on the developer docs, the Stripe integration flow, or just to chat about the nightmare of global B2B sales cycles! Let me know what you think.
@andrevalleee it sound like you are gamifying the check out process! a reward is always nice. do you have any numbers yet on how much this frictionless approach enhances closing percentages?
@andreas_jablonka hi andy! honestly, it is less about gamification and more about removing the "i will send the wire on monday" excuse. since we are just launching the saas publicly today, my best data comes from using this internally at our dev agency. our overall closing percentage stayed similar, but our "time-to-cash" dropped from an average of 14 days waiting for international wires to literally seconds. when the checkout feels frictionless, they just pay on the spot.
@andrevalleee that must feel great! congrats!
@andrevalleee Love that this came from a problem you were actually dealing with in your own agency. Turning the whole proposal → approval → payment flow into a single live link feels like a much better experience than sending a PDF and then chasing people over email.
Curious: was the FX locking the original problem that pushed you to build Cord, or did that come later as you expanded the product?
@ir3ne hi irene! the core problem was definitely the cash flow gap—just getting paid on the spot instead of chasing a wire transfer for two weeks.
but the fx locking came almost immediately after. since my agency had international clients, the moment we started capturing payments instantly, we realized currency volatility was still eating our margins before the funds actually settled. building the custom stripe connect flow to lock the exchange rate at the exact moment of checkout went from a "nice-to-have" to an absolute survival requirement for the tool.
proposal to payment in one link is so usefull for agencies 🙌 nice one
@petrkovacik hanks petr. as an agency founder, killing that friction between the "yes" and the actual deposit is a massive relief. appreciate the support!