(www.inkthinkerblog.com) — The folks over at Invotrak, a new invoice and time-tracking service for freelancers, are offering a free 3-month basic account for five Inkthinker readers. Details on how to enter are at the end of this post.
But first, some Invotrak features:
- Timesheets for yourself and your employees
- Create invoices from timesheets as line items
- Track invoices to ensure you’re paid on time
- Reports (and pretty graphs!) showing payment histories, money earned, etc.
- Less expensive with many of the same (or better) features than other leading services
I’m a QuickBooks user myself, but when I played around with Invotrak I was impressed at how simple and intuitive it was. If you’re still doing invoices in Excel or (gulp) Word, you definitely want to check this out. To test it, sign up for a free trial. Or, just watch this informational video.
How to Win a Free 3-Month Basic Account
All you have to do to enter this random drawing for five winners is to leave a comment on this post sharing one of the following:
- How you handle invoicing now.
- What you love or hate about invoicing.
- What your ideal invoicing solution looks like.
You must comment about one of above to be eligible. “Give it to me!” or “I want to win!” don’t count, and I will mock you for claiming to be a professional writer but being completely unable to follow simple instructions.
Anyone is eligible to enter so long as you follow the instructions. Entries will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. on Friday, September 26, so you have 2 weeks to enter. I’ll announce the five winners on Monday, September 29.
Ready? GO!
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I’m new to freelancing and have yet to invoice. So, actually, I’d LOVE invoicing right about now. However, I am not detail oriented, so I think a product like this would help me very much in my quest to be an organized writer.
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Looks like a great program Kristen - If it’s web-based, it should work with a Mac, right?
Since I’m a good girl and I read instructions, I’ll enter this properly. :-)
Right now, for invoicing, I use….hang on… are you ready for it…. Excel. yeah… excel. How sad is that?
I don’t mind the invoicing part - it’s how I get paid. It’s the COLLECTING part that infuriates me.
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Just this morning I invoiced a client with…WORD. Actually, technically not even Word, because I have Open Office. It took me a good ten minutes to customize my free invoice template so that it didn’t look wonky. I love invoicing because I like money coming in. I hate it because my invoices aren’t professional-looking enough, and if I want to play with the big girls, I need to fix that.
The thing that I hate about invoices is when clients “misplace” them and I have to hound them via email or phone in order to get paid. I love when all goes smoothly and I get paid even sooner than expected. That is bliss in my book!
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Susan, I agree 100%! I also hate when the client loves your work…until it’s time to pay the invoice and then all of a sudden, you are the worst writer ever and everything you wrote is garbage.
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Hi Kristen,
Well, I would like this program because I am just getting started with freelancing and haven’t a clue as to how to invoice unless I do it through paypal. Looks like a great program!
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and I will mock you for claiming to be a professional writer but being completely unable to follow simple instructions.
Just one of the reasons I love you. But, brown-nosing aside, we actually have a pretty pathetic invoicing system at the moment that includes me keeping a table of invoice numbers already used (so I don’t duplicate) and filling in a (yes, you guessed it) Word design with the applicable numbers.
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I’m new to the full-time freelance business and I’ve been using *cough* Excel/Word for the last several months. Now that I’m working with more than one client and realizing that I’ll actually need to track everything to get paid-I definitely need to look into other options.
Thanks for the opportunity.
So, who won? I’m dying to find out!
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