Drum can help your business
Sell products and/or services
- Raise and send invoices
Manage operations
- Manage customer or client contracts
Manage people
- Forecast and plan future work
- Recording and approving time and attendance
Manage accounts, cash flow and finance
- Receive invoices or bills
Overview
Stop fighting spreadsheets!
If you're spending more time managing project financials, forecasting, and chasing timesheets than you are delivering for clients, it’s time for a change.
For firms that have outgrown basic tools or are looking for a more powerful Xero Projects alternative, Drum is the answer.
Drum is the Operating System for modern engineering, architecture, and consulting firms. We replace operational chaos with a single, intelligent platform for complete job management.
Go from reactive firefighting to predictive foresight. Drum provides a unified view of your entire business, designed to streamline quoting to invoicing:
→ Intelligent Sales & Scoping: Manage your sales pipeline, create powerful proposals, and scope project budgets with precision. → Financial Foresight & Planning: Get an accurate picture of your capacity planning, resource planning, and revenue forecasting. Understand true project profitability without manually building reports. → End-to-End Project Delivery: Seamlessly manage projects, tasks, staff-friendly time tracking, and expenses, giving your team the clarity to focus on brilliant work.
All with a world-Class Xero integration!
Drum’s deep, two-way sync with Xero is the core of this end-to-end solution.
Manage purchase orders, bills, and credit notes with ease, and watch as paid invoices automatically update project statuses in Drum. It's how your operations and accounting become perfectly aligned.
Ready to build the firm of the future? Consolidate, simplify, and scale your business with Drum.
Drum + Xero
Drum’s integration with Xero is not just a connection; it is a seamless, two-way sync that forms the backbone of your firm’s operational and financial health. We handle the day-to-day project operations so you can leave the accounting heavy-lifting to Xero, confident that your data is always perfectly aligned.
Here’s how our deep integration eliminates double-handling and gives you a true, real-time picture of your business:
Invoices & Payments:
→ Create detailed, multi-stage invoices in Drum using your project data, ensuring 100% accuracy. → With one click, these invoices are pushed to Xero, adopting your branding and ready to be sent to clients. → When a payment is recorded in Xero, the payment status automatically syncs back to the corresponding project in Drum, giving project managers and principals a live view of profitability.
Bills, Expenses & Purchase Orders:
→ Manage all project-related costs within Drum. Create purchase orders and track expenses against project budgets. → Seamlessly push approved bills and expense claims to Xero, where they become bills ready to be paid. This directly connects your project costs to your accounting ledger, eliminating manual reconciliation.
Timesheets for Payroll:
→ Your team uses Drum’s intuitive time-tracking, allocating hours directly to projects and tasks. → Approved timesheet data syncs effortlessly to Xero, drastically simplifying your payroll process and ensuring accurate labour costing against projects.
Credit Notes:
→ Easily create and issue a credit note in Drum for an existing invoice. This is automatically synced to Xero to ensure your accounts are always reconciled correctly.
Contacts, Items & Tracking Categories:
→ The sync keeps your core data aligned. New clients created in Drum can be added to Xero, and your Xero inventory items and tracking categories can be used in Drum for consistent reporting across both platforms.
Getting Started is Simple!
Connecting Drum to your Xero account takes just a few clicks. Once authorized, our system intelligently maps your data, and our customer success team is on hand to ensure a smooth and successful integration from day one.
Pricing plans
This app includes a free 14 day trial
Complete Access
- £27.00 per user per month
- £17.00 per user per month
- Sales pipeline
- Project budgeting
- Proposals
- Staff utilisation and resourcing
- Intuitive time-tracking
- Cost management (Xero integrated)
- Invoicing (Xero integrated)
- World-class reporting
Getting started
Your journey to operational clarity starts here. We believe a successful trial is more than just a login; it's a partnership from day one.
Our process is designed to ensure you see a tangible return on your time invested and understand the full power of Drum for your firm.
Here’s your path from trial to transformation:
Step 1: Start Your Free 21-Day Trial
→ Click the "Get this app" button to create your trial account. Once you connect to Xero, the sync will begin immediately.
Step 2: Your Complimentary 'Operational Health Check'
→ Our Customer Success team will reach out to schedule a brief consultation. We’ll work with your directors and admin team to understand your current workflows, your biggest operational challenges, and what you hope to achieve. This isn't a sales call; it's the foundation of your success plan.
Step 3: Seamless Data Migration
→ Don't worry about starting from a blank slate. To make your trial meaningful from day one, our team will handle the heavy lifting of importing your key data, including:
- Clients & Contacts
- Current & Past Projects
- Proposal & Project Templates
Step 4: Discover the Drum Way
→ With your own data live in the system, you can immediately explore the features most important to you—from revenue forecasting to project budgeting. We provide dedicated support throughout your trial to answer any questions and help you uncover insights you couldn't see before.
Our team is with you at every step, ensuring a smooth evaluation and, when you're ready, a structured, successful onboarding for your entire team.
