Running any kind of business should involve invoicing to customers. Invoicing software comes at a cost and when you’re building a company, its a cost you want to keep to a minimal.
I recently came across freshbooks.com whilst sifting through forum posts and freshmeat.net searches.
Within 4 minutes i was setup with a fully fledged invoicing system that also did project management, support tickets and document sharing with customers. And at what cost? If you have less than 3 active clients (which i do), you can use freshbooks.com for free.
After punching in some services and products that i offer, and some clients details i was able to send an invoice via email with the option to send via snail mail aswell.
Previously, ive used gnucash and opencrm. Both took more than a hour to setup and both had a steep learning curve. I needed something i could setup with minimal fuss, minimal infrastructure and minimal cost.
Im planning to use freshbooks.com alot more in the near future as i start to transfer my projects, tasks, contacts and documents that i build whilst i do my own startup.
