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Ask HN: Freelancers - what do you use to generate quotes and invoices?

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I'm doing some freelance work for the first time in a very long time, is there a 'go to' service for making pretty quotes and invoices easily?

Thanks!

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I created my own Invoices (using OpenOffice) and saved them to a free Google Drive Account. When I need to send an Invoice (or a Quote), I just create a copy of the Invoice (using the Customer's Name), fill out a few fields, convert the file to PDF, and E-mail it to the Customer (cc'ing myself). When I need to look up an Invoice to verify something or do Taxes (or whatever), it's all saved and searchable on Google Drive (and backed up on my E-mail Server). It's paperless, simple, and free. You could do the same thing (or similar) with Dropbox, Box, or another similar Service.

I use http://www.paymo.biz and although they're mostly known for pm & time tracking they have some nice invoicing options: estimates, expenses, invoices & reports.

I'm suggesting it because although I use a paid version, there's a free one too, as I freelancer you should keep your expenses down at first am I right? :)

My personal favorite one used to be: http://invoiceomatic.io/ I have however moved on to: http://invoiceable.co/ as it saves a copy of your invoices online.

Similar thread (for invoices) I started a while back. Some useful services are mentioned there. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6353270

You should check out the self-hosted (open source) solution - http://www.fusioninvoice.com - I used it from quoting to invoicing to keeping records.

For invoices I use http://tradeshift.com, but I'm not sure they handle quotes.

I'm a huge fan of http://www.freeagent.com/

Curdbee. I'm using the free tier and have no complaints.

freshbooks.com

planscope.io

I second Freshbooks.com . At $19.99/month, it's a great deal.

orgmode with org-invoice.el

freshbooks

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