What's the best free invoicing tool for freelancers?

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I've tried several tools but still can't find the one that allows branding, customization and payments. Any suggestion hunters? Free is best ;)

Eric Paul G.B. · Accepted Answer

I've tried And.co and loved it, but I wish it was free!

Kunal Bhatia · Answer

This is the best product I've seen for invoicing + more. It's a freelancers paradise!

Romain Lapeyre · Answer

Bonsai came strongly recommended by a few friends. Their whole solution is well integrated with payments and contracts and I think it’s free for freelancers (couldn’t find any information on it though).

Justin Mitchell · Answer

And.co is amazing. Highly recommend. I'd normally suggest my own product Paynote.io but I'm currently in the process of selling it!

Loralee Hutton · Answer

Wave is a fabulous free alternative that will take care of your bookkeeping as well as invoicing. The link above is from 3 years ago - it's come a long way since then.... You can connect paypal and stripe (no extra charges, beyond the fees you pay to stripe/paypal), and stripe securely stores the c/c info, so your customers can quickly pay their invoice. 

I don't work for them, or anything....just highly recommend it as an option, if you want to take care of more than just invoicing.

Jonno Riekwel · Answer

Great product. Does a lot and has a lot of active development going on. They also connect really well with their users and community.

Amy Ahrens · Answer

By far, the easiest invoicing and expensive tracking software and it's free until you add payroll.  Accepts credit card payments (they do take a fee but its minimal).  They recently added recurring monthly invoicing.  Not buggy at all especially compared to Quickbooks.

Eva Reder · Answer

I've tried lots of different solutions and AND CO is seriously the perfect tool: beautiful interface, no limits on features, no hidden fees, and 100% free - what else could you wish for?

Maéva Alméras · Answer

I'd like to add TMetric, it's not just the invoicing tool, it's a time tracker with a super useful feature - creating reports for billable time. Usually, I send these reports to my clients for billing purposes.

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Bitrix24 is free and the best thing it's quotes, invoices, tasks and client management in one. Has time tracking for easy billing as well. See https://www.bitrix24.com/uses/free-crm-with-invoicing.php

Laurent Perrier · Answer

I'm probably biased but I've yet to come across an easier product for invoicing clients. Payments are built-in with Stripe and invoices get paid in 24 hours on average. Not free, but hopefully $10 a month should be affordable to most!

Berk Aykol · Answer

Free online CV builder, simple interface, you can create CV, share and save a PDF for free

Katy Carlisle · Answer

Yes I totally 💗 Wave, I even wrote a blog post about how much I love it, which is weird, because IT'S FINANCE SOFTWARE. You aren't supposed to be evangelical about it. You can invoice from your phone and customers can pay online via credit or debit card. Most of my clients are so impressed by the invoices that they start using it too.

Asghar C · Answer

The Best.

Sam Rye · Answer

I've recently returned to Cushion having left a role, and feel it's coming on leaps and bounds. Branding customisation, multi currency, time tracking, forecasting and more - it's the complete package!

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I've been using this for the past three years, and I have branding and customization on my invoices. Also I can set up Paypal and Stripe buttons in the automated email that goes out with the invoice.

Ebrahim-Khalil Hassen · Answer

This is like the best app to open up even if I am not making a profit :) The world just looks clearer.  Useful features, a good interface, and a good mix between automation and getting out of my way.

Amrith · Answer

I don't know why this hasn't been recommended in here :O
It's just really beautiful, simple, clean and most of all, free!

Nora Conrad · Answer

If you need more options than just invoicing (contracts, lead forms, tasks, workflows, etc) this is a great option.

Justin Mound · Answer

Excellent product, includes a large set of features in the  free version

Stefan Theofilos · Answer

Freshbooks makes invoicing very simple and organized

Ciocanel Razvan · Answer

It has to be zipbooks. It's amazing and it's free. They make their money by having a comission on the payment methods they provide but if you don't use that then you pay nada. <3 it

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