I use Freshbooks. It has a time tracker and makes it easy to send invoices for hourly projects. It also has retainers and other features, accepts credit card payments as well as ACH. It's really easy and allows me to devote as little time to invoicing as possible.
I've been freelancing for over 2 years now and I use Freshbooks (http://www.freshbooks.com/) for all my time tracking / invoicing. It also can accept payments via Stripe, as well as connect to my business credit card to automatically pull in expenses, so most of my accounting stuff gets very easy to handle -- I barely log in to it for any management, I just use ChronoMate (http://chronomateapp.com/) to track my time, and it auto-generates weekly invoices to send to my clients. Couldn't recommend it enough!
I like FreshBooks(http://www.freshbooks.com/), it can link up to my time tracking app quite easy. And with it, I can outsource tasks and manage the billing quite easily. Invoicing with pdf is also helpful too.
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with the ChronoMate add-on. Run multiple timers, add notes, track based on client, project, and task, you tell it how to round time up or down, and in my experience, it even keeps time through a system crash and un-expected restart. When it comes time to bill, 1 click to generate an invoice with the option to include any related expenses. You also get to see when the client views your invoice, so you know they saw it, plus it has customizable reminders if they haven't paid in XX days. Easy to add in Stripe support to get paid with a credit card. It's one service I'm happy to give my money to.
FreshBooks (http://www.freshbooks.com) is fantastic for invoicing. That's the primary reason we use it, but it also tracks time, expenses and is moving towards a full accounting offering.
Using freshbooks for years now and love it. Not because it has lots of features etc, but simply because it does this invoicing thing quite well. They are starting to add more accounting specific features which is nice but for me the bread and butter of invoicing is well worth the 20/month
I'm doing more and more freelance work and need a better way of invoicing with time tracking + expenses. One that takes an online payment from a client would be great, but not required.
I'm not a designer, but I use Freshbooks for all my invoicing/time tracking/estimation stuff for my business. It's free for up to three clients, you pay a subscription after that.
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I use freshbooks for all of my invoicing etc. I couldn't be more happier with it. They will even post your invoices, estimates etc. You can also take payment for your invoices online with them.
I was using invoicemachine.com but their API just wasn't cutting it for me so I switched to FreshBooks. The FreshBooks API is great: in a matter of minutes I was able to pull my hours from Harvest and generate a FreshBooks invoice. That's all I need
I use freshbooks but mostly just for invoicing clients. I understand they have more advanced accounting features that I don't have a need for since it's just me doing solo consulting.
We use freshbooks for all of our project billing (we're a small focused dev shop). You can set project budgets, track expenses against a specific project, have them invoiced to the client (if passing along costs) and time tracked. It doesn't sound ideal in your circumstance, but we treat it as our book of record for project finances and works quite well.
When I was doing my own information security consulting, I used FreshBooks and it was awesome. Enter your clients, enter your projects, enter your time, and it sends invoices. Very nice.
Definitely not the best in terms of user experience but it has enough features I didn't know I need, that it keeps me happy.
Things like multiple auto-reminders for late payments and reoccurring invoices saved me alot of time. I didn't need them when I was looking around at invoicing software but now I do.
I used FreshBooks.com when I freelanced a few years ago and I think it contained all the features you want and it was pretty inexpensive (~10 USD per month) and invoices/receipts looked very professional and allows setting different currencies for each client (eg. if you work remotely for different international clients).
I found spreadsheets broke down once I started working on multiple projects at different rates (sometimes with the same client). Freshbooks has been awesome for me, and saved a whole bunch of headaches around tracking time and invoices. Totally worth it.
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