No love for Invoice Journal…gee! Tack it on the list of 100% free ones.
http://www.invoicejournal.com

sadly sidejobtrack wont allow new user registrations so its not really worth looking into
But I do appreciate this post because I was looking for online invoice apps and now I have a list to look at and see which one fits my needs

P.S Another online invoice App to add is invoicejournal.com , its completely free and it works great for freelancers on a budget

You can check out AJAXinvoice.com. It is a self hosted solutions, but flexible. I developed it for myself as an independent technology consultant. Works pretty good for my needs

Thanks for the mention Collis!

what do you guys use for your design company? thats not online?

reason i ask, i want a app that i can design my own invoices and quotes and use
it in the program.

I use AcuInvoice.

and im not looking for anything online…

Tim,

i think you should use simpleinvoice or if you have budget for a very nice application to manage your business from start to end (accounting) then go for QuickBooks.

wow that was so nice, great job posting this one.

@ Tim
If you’re a Mac user, look at Billings. You can totally customize your invoices. It’s 59 USD.

Veerle Pieters wrote a post about it, sometimes ago.

Thank you for this list. As a Virtual Assistant I use a lot of online Apps and these are new to me so I’ll be checking into them.

awesome! this will help.

Don’t forget PayPal. We use their invoicing feature and clients can pay with their credit card or PP account — which means we can accept credit cards without having to set up merchant accounts. The fees are quite reasonable.

I also must say that http://www.invoicejournal.com/ is one of the best I’ve used. It has all of the features that you want from an Invoice application, however it is free. Why not use it? I am very happy with it, and I highly recommend it.

Michelle,

but can i use design my own in illustrator and use it in quickbooks?

or can anyone else tell me?

You guys didn’t mention, but on Cashboard you can get paid with PayPal, or Authorize.net. I use PayPal.

Also you can design your own invoices coming up! They say they will release a HTML editor for them this week and even turn it into PDF. I just read that on the forum. Looks good to me!!!

Tim,

Yes you can do whatever you want in your invoice/bill template. Quickbooks is very huge but its really complete solution for a business owner. I am running 3 ecom websites and all data is compiled under quickbooks. it gives me all info about which product doing well, how much i earned in financial year and other stats which helps me to grow my business in right direction.

But the only problem may be its not cheap.

How about just using google docs. I have a template for an invoice, I save a copy and fill out the info. Save it as a new file, everything belongs to me, it’s free, no monthly fees. Takes me all of 3 minutes, my graphic is embedded, the file can be exported to many types. Then I can email the PDF to the client or share it in other ways.

-ms

Awesome List, Collis!

Keep Rocking!

Aloke Pillai

I figured since they were talking about invoicing etc.. i would ask. Didn’t mean anything by it.

Thanks for all your helps guys.

Hi, I’ve been using http://www.openair.com since way back in the late ‘Web 1.0′ days

This is a great list and perfect timing as I need to get some invoices out to web advertisers! Thanks!

Surprised to find Pelago’s Intervals (http://www.myintervals.com) not listed here. Originally designed as an internal project mgmt and time-tracking app, they’ve recently added some robust invoicing features as well.

Fantastic time-tracking capabilities, including the ability to run have multiple time-timers running simultaneous (useful for when you have to pause a project to work on something else, then return to the original project). I wish it had a desktop widget like some of these others since I always seem to lose (or even sometimes accidentally close) the tracking browser window, but even if you close it, the time tracking data is not lost, and running timers even continue to run. Can’t believe this feature isn’t in other apps. (Who has the luxury of only ever working on one distinct project at a time?)

Perhaps the most crucial feature to us is the task types. We bill for our time at different rates depending on the task—client interaction, HTML design, graphic design, database administration, etc. Intervals lets you set up as many as you like, all at different billable rates.

More reports, charts and stats than you can shake a stick at, which can be overwhelming or a godsend, depending upon whether you want that or not. Intervals is dense but powerful. No integration with BaseCamp and doubt they’ll ever add it, since it’s intended for project mgmt itself. Anyway, worth a look.

Blatant plug Saasu.com has Inventory, Assembly, API, Payroll, Timesheet features on top of what most invoicing systems do at a similar cost level. Connectors have been built to other Web apps like Salesforce, Virtuemart and others. Will be launching in US/UK in coming months even though we have implemented Zone based tax codes for those regions already. 1,000’s of paying users.

I have made my own with logo and everything and looks very proffesional.

Looks good. I was looking for something to invoice my clients. Now I will try a couple of those and will figure out which one will work better with my project management tool - Wrike.com [http://www.wrike.com/]

UniversalWeb, you can do that with Cashboard. It calls quotes ‘estimate’.

Check out http://www.phpbms.org for a FREE system you host yourself. It really is a great system.

billingmanager.com (from intuit) is pretty solid. it’s actually free to use as much as you want unless you sign up for credit card processing support - then intuit takes a percentage of each charge transaction.

I started using Simply Bill in January and it was a great experience. However, recently the software is saving the dates of the invoices as either some time in 2010 or back to January 1, 2008. All my attempts to change this prove fruitless and my repeated attempts at contacting them have gone unanswered. As of now, I can’t recommend Simply Bill to anyone. I’ll try some of the others on this great list.

has anyone tried http://www.invoice.com ?

Apparently it has all the things that have been mentioned above and it’s completely free

Hi,

Last month our zoho team released online invoicing product. Name is Zoho Invoice.
Try this http://invoice.zoho.com

1. This is very easy to use
2. Data Security
3. Multi currency support
etc….

if you want see the help documentation http://invoice.wiki.zoho.com

great topic and great comments. i got as much from the comments as i did from the article (no backhanded compliment intended). after reading your article and trawling the comments i was able to review 8 or 10 applications very rapidly. i went with billingmanager in the end because it is free (that is a strong USP), because it will integrate with quickbooks which is most likely the software i would use if i don’t outsource the bookkeeping, and it seems no nonsense. congrats on the google ranking btw number 2 or 3 for my search and i knew the blog though not a regular reader. keep up the good work freelance switch team and freelance switch community.