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Ask HN: Contractors: What tool(s) do you use to invoice clients?
1) What tools do you use to track your time, tasks and submit invoices?
2) How much do you spend per month / year on 1)
- mattbillenstein 7y agogoogle sheets - I have one sheet with date, # hours, notes - I tally this up every couple weeks or month whatever the billing interval is, copy that number into another sheet that looks like an invoice, print to pdf and send that to my clients via email. Most of them pay via electronic means into my business account, but I've taken paper checks from usps mail as well. I have a small number of clients - 1-3 at a time at max, I can do this in ~5 minutes per month for all of them. Google "google sheets invoice template" -- I use an early variant of this one: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TzvUubN-M9q4ATPCuzuKNUbAELILUDPf4b1fPmHc6x4/edit#gid=1194874101 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TzvUubN-M9q4ATPCuzuK...
- InquisitorJax 7y agoCurrently I manually track my tasks (and time spent) in an excel sheet, and ZipBooks (free) to submit invoices. It does take a bit of time to collate the tasks and time to the invoice every month.
- mehhh 7y agoWe use InvoicePlane, it integrates with Stripe and multiple other processors, tracks whether an invoice has been sent or viewed, and handles recurring invoices well.