We’re absolutely tickled to announce that Freckle now offers you invoicing.
Oooh. What can I do with it?
You can now create invoices for any project.
You can specify a flat rate total (per invoice) or a single hourly rate (per invoice).
You can add any tax percentage you need, and specify any currency.
You can opt to show no hours, just a total, or even attach a full report on subsequent pages.
Choose your own invoice numbering and reference information.
How do I create an invoice?
We’ve made it drop-dead simple:
Just go into any of your projects with billable hours, and click Create new invoice.
As you can see, don’t have to go dig up your last invoice and figure out when you invoiced, just to make a new one. Freckle will automatically create an invoice for you out of any hours that you haven’t yet invoiced.
You can specify a date range, of course, if that’s the way you like to roll!
Then enter your client’s contact info, your contact info, including any tax IDs or whatnot that you need to include, and customize the other settings such as price/hourly rate, tax percentage, currency, and more.
(That’s just one more way we’ve shown our commitment to eliminating the demon of up-front configuration.)
I have hours invoiced before now. What do I do?
Been invoicing your Freckle time by some other means? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered!
Just go into the project in question and click the button to Mark hours invoiced outside of Freckle. Provide the end-date of your last invoice (up to and including hours logged for that day), and we’ll mark ‘em as invoiced already so you can start with a fresh slate.
Don’t stress if you accidentally enter the wrong date. You can always undo it later.
How do I get my shiny new invoice to my clients?
Right now, you have three options:
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Send them a special, private link by email, IM, or any other medium you can think of.
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“Print” it as a PDF and email it to ‘em as an attachment.
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Or print it on paper, and send it along by snail mail.
These invoices look great on-screen and on paper!
Freckle Invoicing is beta.
Our brand new invoicing system isn’t done yet. We’ve tested the daylights out of it, and everything sure works on our end, but it’s still possible that you might find minor issues here and there.
If you do, let us know! Click the pink Feedback button on the left side of every Freckle page.
And we know you’re going to want it to do even more awesome stuff.
Let us know about that, too!
Looks very nice.
I’ll give it a try right away…
I love it! Finally && you rock people!
Great addition to a service that has quickly become something I’ve come to rely on. I’ll be trying out my first invoice very soon – so if there’s any feedback, I’ll surely send it along.
One huge(ly useful) feature that you may have already considered (and if not – here it is) – would be due dates, tied with a reminder process that xyz invoice is due, so that I can remember to chase the client up. It’s a little more work that setting a due date and running a cron, but you guys and gals are a clever lot ;-)
Your blog post doesn’t seem to imply this, so I’ll mention it: If you don’t have a way to explicitly specify exact items to be included in (or excluded from) an invoice, that would be my very first “must have” feature request. Perhaps others use freckle differently, but I basically never invoice for all currently outstanding hours. It is always some subset of that — namely, the items that have been delivered. That’s in contrast to deliberables that are in progress.
Having said that, it would also be great to be able to retroactively create paid invoices comprised of past items.
No Euro? I’m sorry – thats a dealbreaker!
But what a beautiful UI!
Mathias, You can absolutely invoice your clients in Euros, if that’s what you mean! You can enter any currency you like.
But for paying for Freckle, we charge in USD. :)
(We don’t handle any client invoice payments.)
Remy, we are definitely looking to add features like that to help you manage your cashflow as painlessly as possible. Look out for those in v2 :) We just wanted to get it out there & get people using it ASAP!
Pistos, I’m afraid we don’t have any plans to implement a feature like that. If others ask for it, we’ll reconsider. But it sounds like you run your business quite differently than most. (Not saying that’s a bad thing, either!)
Fantastic guys!
Thanks!
It’d be great if you could consider implementing this:
adding a “Daily rate” radio button in your “new invoice” view (I know it sucks because right now you’ve got HourlyRate/FlatRate/Tax/Currency all in one row, and adding a DailyRate option would mean having to split those options in two rows), but otherwise it shouldn’t break the logic and the rest of the UI:
the “show hours” checkbox could be renamed “show amount of time”, the “h” (hours) would become “d” (days). Lastly, you could add a “number of hours per day” value in the Preferences section of the Settings: it’d be used in the new invoice view to compute the total number of days, and also in the “log time” pane when using the “1d”+Tab shortcut.
First off, thank you. Invoicing and time tracking has been a pain in the butt till now.
A few items – and maybe I just need to dig in deeper.
I just love the ways clients make us jump through hoops. I report to a project manager who requires a timesheet showing hours per day AND either full days or half days to be billed on a daily rate. However I have to bill through a contracting company who wants a simple summary showing (number of days x the daily rate) as a single line item. Crazy huh.
I’m just happy to have a simple way to keep track of what I’m doing and a report that shows me a list of hours worked for the month. I can take the rest from there myself (I wouldn’t ask ANYONE to have to write software to handle this kind of mess :-) )
Oh man, stupid me – Amy thanks for your answer!
Awesome feature, it will save me from having a redundant service for invoicing. Will emailing the invoice directly from the interface, rather than my having to manually email a link to the invoice itself, be a function that this feature will have? That is how I work with my current invoicing service, I formulate the invoice with their interface, and their service sends it via email to the customer.
YAY!! I was so excited when I saw this feature appear in my account. This will save so much time and make it so much easier to keep track of the hours that have been invoiced. Very happy to see this added to your service!! Thank-you!
Great addition but still a baby feature. I love my Invoice Machine for doing this stuff.
Estimates would be great too…
This is just great. Freckle went from a friendly and easy to use tool to a core component of my business administration. Well done!
Yeah I don’t know guys. I tried using this new invoice functionality (browser Opera 10).. and it kinda doesn’t work. It is definitely beta.
Hey Freckle Team,
I’m really enjoying things so far. It’s simple, satisfying and beautiful. Perfect :)
But… I am struggling with not being able to bill clients in anything other than hours and minutes. For lots of my projects, I just want to bill them in days, and sometimes in weeks.
Is this possible? Will it ever be possible?
I tried 3d and it came up with 24:00 rather than 3 days. It’s not a deal-breaker, but it’s a real “Grrrrr…”.
Pretty please with sugar on top… ;)
In response to my last post – I realised I will be able to do this with the API, so I’m not disappointed after all.
Getting more into the invoicing component now, and there’s a few things I’d love to see given some a bit more polish:
1) It’s kind of easy to lose track who’s been invoiced. A global invoices menu item is pretty necessary I think, along with check marks for “paid” (either by me / client).
2) How come we can’t edit invoices after they’ve been created?
3) I was a bit confused by being able to raise as many invoices as I like.Could this be simplified somehow? Maybe show which ones are for billed time, and which ones are flat rate?
4) I think some consulting on the fields people would find useful would be good. For example, I would like to have a “company” line, a “company contact” line, as well as a “company address” line. I don’t want to complicate things… but I often work for different people inside a company.
5) At the moment, I’m doing the same thing I was doing with invoice machine – that is, pulling out the external data (in this case to Flash via E4x) and having my own pretty, brand invoices they can print off. Looking at some of the classes and tags in the HTML – they could do with a little bit of standardization – certainly if you’re not going to plug it into the API for a bit!
Definitely great though!
Keep up the good work :)
A great addition would be to define rates by user
Your timetracking software is just so cool. Do you plan to implement a german version of the invoice? Unfortunately thtas necessary for me, cause i cannot send an english invoice to my german clients.
But great anyway.
Hi, invoicing must have the ability to be able to save clients’ names, addresses etc as well as your own!
Hunting out and typing in every detail for each project / client is a nightmare – wastes more time than Freckle saves…
Hi Christopher, sorry if our post was unclear, but Freckle absolutely saves all the details for projects/clients when you create an invoice, too! Tax, hourly rate, name, address, tax ID number, any other details you enter will automatically be applied to future invoices :)
I’m new to freckle. I am trying to test the invoicing feature to see if I want to use freckle. I cannot seem to locate any invoicing option on any page. Is this feature still functioning?