What category is Dribbble in bookkeeping?

What Dribbble is for

Inside Online Software, Even Margin also tags Dribbble by what it is for: Design & Media. It does the same for the 1,300+ tools on its list, so Analytics can show what your software is for: your spend on each kind of tool, side by side in one chart, with Dribbble counted under Design & Media.

What Dribbble charges are

Dribbble charges for its Pro membership, which shows your portfolio to clients looking for a designer, and for job posts on its board.

How Even Margin categorizes Dribbble

Online Software. Applied automatically, at high confidence.

• Even Margin recognizes Dribbble on your bank transaction, using the merchant list its team curates.
• It categorizes the charge as Online Software with high confidence, so it is applied without asking you.
• Change it whenever you like, and Even Margin keeps your choice.

When a different category fits

Whatever you choose, a rule keeps every Dribbble charge in the same place, including the ones already in your books.

• A job post on Dribbble advertises a role, so it can sit in Advertising & Promotion if you keep hiring costs with your marketing.
• A designer you hire through Dribbble and pay there is doing work for you, so that charge is Contract Labor (1099) rather than software.

Dribbble Pro is a membership. Is it still software?

Yes. Even Margin categorizes it as Online Software automatically and tags it Design & Media, so it adds up beside Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud in Analytics.

I paid a designer through Dribbble. Why does it say software?

The charge reads Dribbble, so Even Margin first counts it as Dribbble's own software. Move it to Contract Labor (1099), and a rule on the amount keeps a regular one there.

About this page

Reviewed 2026-10-16 by the Even Margin team.

These are categories for your books; for how a cost is treated on your tax return, ask your accountant. Merchant names are trademarks of their owners, and Even Margin is not affiliated with them.