What Trame connects to

Trame connects to three things today: your calendar app, Stripe for taking card payments, and FreeAgent for your books. That is the whole list. Trame works fully without any of them, they are all optional.

Your calendar

Trame can feed your booked appointments into Apple Calendar, Google Calendar or Outlook as a read-only subscription. It lives on Schedule, under Sync, and also on Settings, under Company. See Adding your Trame diary to your calendar for the full walkthrough.

Taking card payments

Connect a Stripe account from Settings, under Payments, to accept card and Pay by Bank payments on your invoices. Trame takes no cut of what you are paid, but Stripe's own card processing fees still apply. Bank transfer is always shown on your invoices as well, whether or not Stripe is connected. See the Payments section for how to set it up.

Your books in FreeAgent

Go to Settings, then Integrations, then FreeAgent, and select Connect FreeAgent. After that, Trame copies each invoice to FreeAgent when you issue it, and expenses and payments as they happen. It runs one way, from Trame into FreeAgent. See Trame and FreeAgent for what crosses over.

Frequently asked

Do I have to connect anything to use Trame?

No. Calendar sync, Stripe and FreeAgent are all optional. Quotes, jobs, invoices and expenses all work without connecting any of them.

Does connecting Stripe cost extra?

Not from Trame. Stripe charges its own processing fee per card payment, which comes off the payment itself rather than being billed to you separately.

Can Trame connect to my accounting software?

FreeAgent, yes. Xero is not connected yet. For any other accounting software, see Exporting for your accountant.