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No affiliation, except long-time customer, but I always pimp FreshBooks whenever invoicing comes up. They've been around a while and have a solid product.

http://freshbooks.com

Do yourself a favor and check them out if you're shopping for this type of service.

My main thought when looking over PayTango was "Is there any reason I would want to switch to this from Freshbooks?" From what I can see, the answer is "no."

2-3% of the invoice value seems high to me. They aren't providing any additional value for larger invoices, so why should they receive a percentage of the total?

I had the same thought. Anyone know how it compares to competing invoice solutions?

I use Harvest for my invoicing needs and it's the same thing.

2.9% is a pretty standard credit card processing fee. You'll find that it's the same price if you tried to do your own payment processing via stripe or paypal.

its simply Stripe plus Invoicing = same fee

I'm always struck by how none of these services ever integrate with classic old QuickBooks. Since that's the dominant accounting system for the same target market this is serving, does anyone know why that integration isn't more ubiquitous?

Overall neat concept, but I really hate the idea of paying them 3% of my entire revenue just for sending invoices. I suppose that's about what credit cards charge, but if the customer pays check/cash, I hate to throw my 3% just toward sending an invoice.

Hi Josh, I was able to find a few that do integrate by going to Intuit's App center (Intuit makes QuickBooks). As n FYI, by far my favorite & the most affordable is Funding Gate's Receivables Manager. If you're a mic biz (less than 10 clients/invoices) you can use the software for free (awesome!). Here's their Intuit review http://appcenter.intuit.com/fundinggates

As a more general answer to your posed question, always check the parent company's site-- most companies are pushing upgrades, integrations, and overall partnerships with their original software. Branding/Co Branding new apps and software is also a new "big thing".

Good, cheap alternative for small businesses is Funding Gates' Receivables Manager. Helps you efficiently and successfully track down those past due bills, and just in general, helps you stay organized when it comes to invoices and AR. Their style is to keep you more involved, as most small businesses are built on strong, personal relationships no? - From a girl with many, many small business owners in her family

It seems similar to Curdbee (now Hiveage) that I have been using for my (side) freelance work for some time now.

I guess this is just a template site to get them started, as it only has a basic summary of what they do so far and nothing about whatever their USP is. Obviously there are plenty of invoicing and payment collection services out there already, so hopefully they'll add some more details about what makes them special at some point.

I disagree completely. Their USP is clear - they are an accounts receivable team for getting paid on time. Freshbooks, Hiveage and most of the others just let you send invoices online - they don't interact with your clients. These guys handle all of the A/R by making phone calls, sending reminders, followups, cashing checks etc.

Very similar to http://zencash.com who spell it out a bit better, but definitely solving a real problem that a lot of companies face.

I guess you are right and I looked too superficially at what they do.

To get started.. you can also use some of the free tools and templates that are shared by an invoice/AR managing company, Funding Gates. https://www.fundinggates.com/tools/ http://blog.fundinggates.com/2012/06/collection-letter-templ...

Does this have any relation to the PennApps fall 2012 hack of the same name?

The app demoed at PennApps, and then Carnegie Mellon University adopted the tech (biometric payments) for some of their on-campus restaurants. And then, Y-Combinator.

HealPay has been doing this for a long time.

Its called BillerApp, theyve just never marketed it

http://labs.healpay.com

NB: This was a YC W13 startup, after pivoting from payments.

Reminds me of Square Invoices https://squareup.com/invoices

Is it just me or is the website text in some Serif font? I have AdBlock Plus and EFF's Privacy Badger enabled on Firefox.

from the CSS

    font: 100% "museo-sans" sans-serif;

Interesting. I see Times New Roman even after I disable ABP and Privacy Badger.

Didn't this company used to sell some biometric payment system?

Yep.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/25/paytango/

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