Client Octopus gives freelancers and agencies everything they need to send proposals, collect payments, manage projects, and communicate with clients — all from the WordPress admin.
Create professional proposals, collect Stripe payments, manage milestones, automate client communication, and provide a branded client portal directly on your own website.
Client Octopus is designed specifically for WordPress freelancers and agencies who want to manage proposals and client delivery without relying on external SaaS platforms.
This plugin connects to the following third-party services:
Stripe
Client Octopus uses Stripe to process client payments. When a client pays an invoice, the plugin creates a Stripe Checkout Session on your configured Stripe account and redirects the client to complete payment on Stripe’s hosted page. The client’s payment details are entered directly on Stripe’s servers and are never stored in WordPress. Your Stripe API keys (publishable and secret) are stored in the WordPress options table and transmitted only to Stripe’s API.
Client Octopus AI Relay
Client Octopus’s AI writing tools route requests through a relay service operated by the plugin author (clientoctopus.com). This relay authenticates your licence and forwards requests to an AI model. AI features are only triggered when you explicitly use an AI writing action in the admin.
Freemius
Client Octopus uses Freemius to manage plan licensing, activation, and upgrades. When you activate a licence key, the site URL, plugin version, and licence key are sent to Freemius to verify your plan and enable the correct feature set.