For my day job, I run a web design and devel­op­ment com­pany called Lemon Pro­duc­tions as well as a pod­cast net­work called SSKTN and when­ever I have to do any­thing with money — invoic­ing, project esti­mat­ing, etc. — I use Fresh­Books.

It’s by far the eas­i­est invoic­ing sys­tem I’ve tried — and I have tried quite a few.

The fact that it’s a web page and online ser­vice means that it can auto­mat­i­cally send out invoices and reminders for you — with­out you hav­ing to remem­ber to start up a pro­gram on your com­puter and go through your invoices and out­stand­ing pay­ments. It’s a huge men­tal relief to be able to dump reoc­cur­ring invoices into Fresh­Books and not have to think about them again until one day you get pay­ment noti­fi­ca­tion from a client. Awe­some­sauce.

Reports and stats com­ing out the wha­zoo (that’s a tech­ni­cal term) — it’s approved by my accoun­tant for tax time. Check out Fresh­Books if you’re in need of invoic­ing and project bud­get­ing and want to be able to focus on the actual doing of your stuff instead of invoic­ing and billing for your stuff.

A Note on Reviews and Recommendations

These rec­om­mends pages are for prod­ucts and ser­vices that I actu­ally use myself. I won’t rec­om­mend some­thing unless I per­son­ally am using or have used it. If you decide to use or pur­chase the ser­vice rec­om­mended on this page, I will receive a com­mis­sion which goes towards sup­port­ing my writ­ing on this site as well as the pod­cast­ing I do at SSKTN. I appre­ci­ate your support!