Invoices · standard, like everything except video

You already tracked the hours. That's the invoice.

Not a separate app you paste numbers into on a Sunday night. The bill is made of the same time entries you logged all month, priced at the rate that client is already on, with the unbillable work shown and not charged for.

Start a workspace $24 a month, invoices included. No per-invoice fee, ever.
How it actually goes

Four minutes on the first of the month.

It's already drafted

Every client with billable hours last month has a draft waiting, grouped by project, with the task names on the lines so they can see what they're paying for.

You read it once

Change a line, drop a line, mark something no charge. Rates come from the client, so there's no arithmetic to check.

They get a link

Readable on a phone, payable by card or bank, downloadable as a PDF their bookkeeper will accept. No account for them.

It closes itself

Paid marks itself paid. Unpaid at 30 days puts one task on your Today — it doesn't email your client behind your back.

The part nobody else prints

The hours you gave away belong on the bill too.

Every invoice can show the work you didn't charge for, at no charge, right next to the work you did. Not as a discount line with a number crossed out — as a plain row saying what you did and that it's on you.

It is the single most persuasive thing on any invoice, it costs you nothing, and no invoicing app I've used makes it easy. In Cloudbase it's a first-class field, because unbilled work is the running cost of the work, not a failure.

Your quarterly total for that is one report away, and it's yours alone — nobody sees what you gave away unless you put it on a bill.

What it won't do to your clients

Chasing is your job, not the software's.

The people you invoice are people you'll see again. Nothing here will damage that relationship on your behalf while you're asleep.

No automatic dunning emails. Overdue puts a task on your Today and waits for you to write something human.
No late fees by default. You can add one. It will never appear because a switch was on.
No read receipts. Knowing they opened it at 11pm and didn't pay helps nobody.
No red on an unpaid invoice. A number of days, plainly, like everything else in here.
No per-invoice cut. Send four or four hundred; the price is the price. Your card processor takes theirs and that's between you and them.
And if somebody has to say yes first

Estimates live in Ground Control.

Quoting a customer, their accept-or-ask-or-decline, and the chain from a yes into tasks — that's the add-on, because it faces the customer the same way their requests do. Billing your own tracked hours never will be. If you already know the work is happening, you don't need it. Both of the blue rows are the one Ground Control add-on, +$12 a month together, not each.

See Ground Control ›
Invoices from tracked hoursStandard
Rates, flat fees, no-charge linesStandard
Send, get paid, mark paidStandard
Estimates, sent to a customerGround Control
Their yes, turned into tasksGround Control
Straight answers

Is this proper accounting software?

No, and it isn't trying to be. It bills for your time and mileage and hands your accountant a clean spreadsheet. Ledgers, payroll and tax filing are their job, and they're better at it.

How do I actually get the money?

Connect your own payment processor and it lands in your account, not mine. I never hold your money, and I don't take a percentage of it.

Can I invoice for mileage?

Yes, at your rate, with the odometer span on the line if you want it there. Most people don't; the ones who need it really need it.

What about clients I don't bill?

New projects are not billable by default, and unbilled clients read as invested rather than $0.00. You'd still want to know the studio move cost you eight hours.

I'm on salary. Is any of this for me?

The invoices, probably not. The rest of the money side, yes — Cloudbase divides a salary by the hours you actually logged and shows you what you really earn an hour.

What if I already use something else?

Keep it. Export the month as xlsx or csv and paste it in — that's what the reports are for. Nothing here demands you move your billing to me.

Track a month, then look at the first of the next one.

That's the demo, and it's the only one that proves anything. Two weeks free, no card, and the invoices are in the $24 either way.