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I've been freelancing for 15 years now. Sending invoices is by far my least favorite work activity.

I have my own rails app that handles time tracking, and invoices. (Some customers just log into the app, and pay their bills without my involvement.) I spend about two hours a month on invoices.

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Me too - I hate sending invoices. Is your time tracking tool of the clock in / clock out variety?

Also I'm curious - how do you collect payment? I usually only have one client at a time paying large sums so I ask for a check in the mail. All the online forms of collecting payment seem to take too much of a percentage.

Yes, it's clock in, clock out. I do checks in the mail for 90% of work, billed monthly, and Stripe and PayPal for smaller projects.

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