https://cushionapp.com/ is a favorite of mine. Mainly a scheduling/forecasting app but has some great, newer features around invoicing/payments and time tracking.
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#22Very early on:
* time tracking: a frankenstein combination of system logs (especially helpful when jumping between workstations), paper notebook, and chatlogs
* invoicing: http://billable.me/
* both: some elbow grease
Evolution (and current, w/ a small team):
* time tracking: http://getharvest.com/
* invoicing, accounting, etc: https://www.xero.com/
The first one carried me for a few months, at an average workload of 60~140h/mo and a maintenance workload of about 4 hours total.
The latter is solving somewhat different problems, but does equate to time won on the admin side.
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#23I use Pancake (https://www.pancakeapp.com/) for my invoices, expense tracking, proposal/estimate writing, and reporting. They don't offer a native app, but the site is responsive and works well enough on mobile. Pay once and run on your own server.
I previously used Toggl for time-tracking, but have been transitioning out of hourly billing and haven't been tracking time for months.
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#24Freshbooks. It's not free, but it has all the features you want, both on web and mobile. It costs me ~$200/year, but it saves me enough time that it more than pays for itself.
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#25AND CO is a good service https://www.and.co/
This looks amazing - much better than most of the comparable services I've looked into. Going to give it a shot - thanks!
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#26I use Timely for time tracking because of it's fast time-to-data-entry. Also, they integrate with calendar and todo services for those "what did I do today" moments.
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#27I've been using harvest for years - and It's been great. The time-tracking widget has been updated - and the invoicing is smooth.
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#29- https://managewp.com - https://www.godaddy.com/pro
never would have thought they expanded into that.
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#30It might not be as hip as some of the other options, but Quickbooks invoicing allows you to accept payments as ACH transfers. Not many services do this. (Or at least, they didn't when I last researched it ~2 years ago.)
An ACH transfer costs me $0.50. A credit card transaction costs at least 2.9%, although some invoicing tools charge an additional percentage on top of that. On a $4000 invoice that's over $100 I would pay out as fees with another tool.
Nearly every client I've worked with has been okay with paying this way instead of credit card.