Online invoicing software

[eek]

I'm with Crunch for my own business - freelancing. I like it all except for bank reconciliation which usually takes a bit longer than doing it manually at year end. But at least it stays up to date so you can see exactly what you owe the tax man - and more importantly what dividend you can take. (Which reminds me to switch bank accounts to Carter Allen to get a better file output than barclays that allow recon to be done automatically).

Xero and Kashflow are a bit feature rich for a freelancer - but if you plan to run a "plan B" business with real sales at some point it might be worth using them. I'm going to be using BrightPearl for my other halfs business if you fancy something along those lines. Brightpearl does the whole shebang rather than relying on integrations from other suppliers - as someone who's spent many years doing integration work - I know how hard it can be to get things working - even when the stuff is from the same company!

Can any of them take a paypal transaction payment and create an appropriate invoice. I desperately need something like that for plan b and the only option I can see is a £700 3rd party extension for sage 50.

[IR35FanClub]

Some new ones I found that are highly reccomended:

Xero, Kashflow .... it gets harder and harder to work out what to get. I've got free trials coming out of my arse.

I'm with Crunch for my own business - freelancing. I like it all except for bank reconciliation which usually takes a bit longer than doing it manually at year end. But at least it stays up to date so you can see exactly what you owe the tax man - and more importantly what dividend you can take. (Which reminds me to switch bank accounts to Carter Allen to get a better file output than barclays that allow recon to be done automatically).

Xero and Kashflow are a bit feature rich for a freelancer - but if you plan to run a "plan B" business with real sales at some point it might be worth using them. I'm going to be using BrightPearl for my other halfs business if you fancy something along those lines. Brightpearl does the whole shebang rather than relying on integrations from other suppliers - as someone who's spent many years doing integration work - I know how hard it can be to get things working - even when the stuff is from the same company!

[dogzilla]

Some new ones I found that are highly reccomended:

Xero, Kashflow .... it gets harder and harder to work out what to get. I've got free trials coming out of my arse.

[IR35 Avoider]

The free service offered by Crunch is a full on-line accounting package, but I suppose you could just use it to create invoices. It's actually very efficient, when I do a monthly invoice I just clone the previous one, which has a line-item for each week, then all I need to do is customise the hours on each line-item according to the current timesheet.

[dogzilla]

Word + Dropbox + Print to PDF

What more do you need?

A less antiquated way of working? I already have Google Docs, I can store and send all of my invoices, but it's time consuming and a pain in the arse.

I have 4-5 clients that I currently invoice with a few more in the pipe line. With an online system it should be a breeze... just not sure which one to go for.

[eek]

crunch.co.uk offer a free invoice service.

Plus they do tax calculations for you. (Granted I do my own but its nice to know that they tally)

[SimonMac]

Word + Dropbox + Print to PDF

What more do you need?

[deanosity]

crunch.co.uk offer a free invoice service.

[Sockpuppet]

Sage do an online version of instant accounts which I highly recommend.

[dogzilla]

I'm looking for some online software to generate invoices on.

Why? because I travel a lot and I like the idea of a single portal which I can use to create invoices.

I've seen a lot...

Freshbooks, Quickbooks, Zoho, Invoicera, the list goes on.

Is anyone using a service like this and can comment?