When I was consulting full-time, I started off with Freshbooks. Free and
worked well. As I grew, I liked the features and functionality of
Quickbooks Online much more.

-Mike

On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Morgan Blackthorne
<[email protected]>wrote:

> So, something I do is that I provide web hosting / tech consulting on the
> side for some friends of mine. Most of them are free, but a few of them are
> paying clients. Most of the people who do pay do so on a yearly basis, and
> with my memory, that leads me to often forgetting to invoice them. One
> client usually pays around tax return time, and just recently had a tech
> issue that he reached out to me on, and while we were talking he asked if
> he'd paid this year or not (he hadn't). While looking up whether he had, I
> realized that there was a whole year that I missed from him, a few years
> back-- obviously longer than I would like to bring up at this point.
>
> I'm wondering if anyone knows of a simple, easy to use billing system that
> I could use for my small client base. I don't have the time or inclination
> to learn something like MS Money or Quickbooks or the like; I don't need
> anything nearly that complicated. Just something that can kick off on a
> monthly basis and send out invoices as needed. If I do it right, I can even
> have it do so for some of my free clients, with a discount applied; that
> way if they choose to toss me a donation towards hosting costs (as some
> have asked to do from time to time) they can, but they don't need to since
> the invoiced sum will be $0. Or one of the clients I have has offered to
> pay me, but I can't be their full-time on call person (my choice, spoons
> and all), but then I could invoice them when I do do things for them
> (updating WordPress and Invision Board mainly).
>
> Operating system doesn't matter; I have Windows, Mac, and Linux available
> to me. Something web based or designed to run in the background (ie, not
> relying on me to remember to run it) on a scheduled basis would be
> preferable. If it can hook into Paypal to actually send the invoices, even
> better, since that's how I take payments.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
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>
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