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Invoicing Software. - JonHop - 10-29-2015
Hi does anyone know of some good free/cheap software that can be used to bill clients with?
I have been doing work through Elance and now upwork which does this for you but with Elance being closed and having moved to upwork, the upwork fees etc are a lot more and I would like to know of any good software that you guys use or know of to bill your clients with etc?
Thanks :).
RE: Invoicing Software. - Amit Dutta - 11-04-2015
Paypal has invoicing built in, but it is fairly basic. I haven't needed to move to more dedicated software yet, but I found a few opensource things that offer free versions that might be useful?
http://demo.opensourcebilling.org/
https://www.invoiceninja.com/
http://www.simpleinvoices.org/
https://invoiceplane.com/
couldn't say which is the best, but a few look like they have great features, lots of different paysite integration, reporting and tracking etc.
And here are 27 more! ...with some overlap. http://mashable.com/2013/09/03/free-invoicing-tools/#AaPEVeLV.kqT
Let us know how it goes!
RE: Invoicing Software. - JonHop - 11-04-2015
Thank you Amit! I really appreciate it! From what I was reading about it (and now with the paypalme update link) it's pretty easy I guess to just create a word document with the link and all details. Invoice ninja has some very nice looking invoice templates though and it may be a simpler way of keeping track of everything (all financial records in one place etc) to use one of the websites.
Do you just use paypal directly?
RE: Invoicing Software. - Amit Dutta - 11-05-2015
No worries man, I was going to look into it eventually for myself, so you gave me an excuse to.
Yeah I pretty much exclusively use paypal, unless it is a local client, for which I prefer bank transfers.
You can use the request money tab to send invoices and track them etc. Paypalme isn't available for New Zealand so can't say anything there. Yeah I was going to suggest using pre-made templates and just send out your own pdfs. Guess it just depends how much admin time you want to devote to that stuff!
RE: Invoicing Software. - Hugh - 11-25-2015
(11-05-2015, 05:45 PM)Amit Dutta Wrote: No worries man, I was going to look into it eventually for myself, so you gave me an excuse to.
Yeah I pretty much exclusively use paypal, unless it is a local client, for which I prefer bank transfers.
You can use the request money tab to send invoices and track them etc. Paypalme isn't available for New Zealand so can't say anything there. Yeah I was going to suggest using pre-made templates and just send out your own pdfs. Guess it just depends how much admin time you want to devote to that stuff!
invoices for local clients are never difficult.