Invoicing tips, business advice, and guides for freelancers & small businesses.
A client portal gives your clients a secure online space to view invoices, download PDFs, and approve quotes — without needing to log in to your system. Here's how it works.
Read moreIf you have clients on retainer or regular work, recurring invoices eliminate the manual work of invoicing every month. Here's how they work and when to use them.
Read moreEmail is how most freelancers send invoices — but there's a right way and a wrong way. Here's the exact subject line, email body, and follow-up process to use.
Read moreEverything you need to file your NZ GST return correctly. Step-by-step checklist covering what to gather, how to calculate, and how to file with IRD.
Read moreA well-written quote wins jobs and protects you from scope creep. Here's exactly what to include in a professional quote for NZ small businesses — and what to leave out.
Read moreFree software is paid for by someone. Understanding how a free invoicing plan makes money tells you more about whether it will suit you than any feature list will.
Read moreMore features look like better value until you have to set them up. Here is how to work out whether you need a powerful invoicing platform or a simple one, and what each choice actually costs you.
Read moreA generic invoice generator will make you a good-looking document. Whether it can handle your country’s tax correctly is a different question — and it is the one that costs you time every single month.
Read moreInvoicing in the UK means VAT, invoice numbering that has to be sequential, and — once you are registered — Making Tax Digital. Here is what your invoicing software has to handle, and the one thing it probably cannot do for you.
Read moreMost small businesses buy accounting software when what they actually needed was a way to send invoices and get paid. Here is how to tell which one you are, before you pay for the wrong thing.
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