I wasn't going to reply as it seems like free or very inexpensive is best in your situation. However we use and love Harvest. It has shortcomings as does all software and SaaS, but it nails time tracking and easy invoicing.
Now if you have fixed price invoices only, it's probably not the best fit for you. For hourly, it's great. http://getharvest.com Nick On Jun 30, 2013 12:03 PM, "Jon Chen" <[email protected]> wrote: > Stripe? (https://stripe.com/) > > It's not so much a "drag and drop" install, but it'll make life a lot > easier down the road. > > -- > Jon Chen > > On June 29, 2013 at 11:11:21 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. > > -- > ~*~ StormeRider ~*~ > > "Every world needs its heroes [...] They inspire us to be better than we > are. And they protect from the darkness that's just around the corner." > > (from Smallville Season 6x1: "Zod") > > On why I hate the phrase "that's so lame"... http://bit.ly/Ps3uSS > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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