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**Momentum** · 06-05-2007, 01:11 PM

I'd like everyone to tell how they bill or create invoices for their clients. I've always created my invoices with an Excel template but I really want to upgrade to a better way. Any and all suggestions will be appreciated. Thank you in advance.

**wantingawebsite** · 06-05-2007, 02:40 PM

You can use billing software such as WHMCS, Modernbill, ClientExec etc which will generate invoices for your clients and e-mail them to the client when they are due.

**advproc** · 06-07-2007, 08:14 PM

One easy and pretty good way is just using Quickbooks if you have it.

It has an option to email an invoice and it will send them a nice pretty/formatted invoice as part of the email. The nice part is it will also track when its been paid for example if you are using online banking with the quickbooks.

**Y-aji** · 07-27-2007, 03:32 PM

I know it sounds lame, but if you have excel, i assume you have access.
access is very similar to excel but with more integration.
you can create an access sheet, then make a report that comes out looking just like a bill, it's kind of convenient, and will save you some cash (i'm always about saving the cash).
if you dont have access, openoffice has a free version at openoffice.org.
again, i know it's not the flashiest, and both are very frowned upon by serious programmers because it's so limited and over-simplified, but for making invoices in a small business (5-10 people) or for an individual, it works just fine. plus, it's pretty straight forward.

**CSS4Life** · 07-27-2007, 03:41 PM

I use ClientExec. It's quite useful and it is customizable, although you have to delve deep into the settings sometimes to do this. I would recommend it however if you want everything in one place. What area of business are you in? Certainly for hosting (my area of work), it is very useful as I can manage customer signups, clients can login to pay invoices and stay up-to-date with announcements and I can offer support via tickets using it

**J-G-Ju** · 07-30-2007, 04:30 AM

Or you could use MS accounting express which integrates with paypal plus its free

http://www.ideawins.com/

**worldy** · 08-01-2007, 11:20 PM

ya quickbook or any acconting software should work fine

**BusinessNeedz** · 08-02-2007, 12:36 AM

TurboCash comes to mind and its free!!!

**blackfalcon** · 08-10-2007, 04:26 AM

Personally I'm a quickbooks fan. Great program and helps integrate your invoice and billing with the rest of you business process.

**chrishirst** · 08-11-2007, 04:19 AM

FreshBooks

**bfarrell** · 08-12-2007, 05:03 AM

If you are in hosting, online services, you need something like Clientexec for routine billing and CE will automate account creation for you at sign up.

**January8** · 12-05-2007, 11:23 AM

I am also a Quickbooks person. The Support is out there, it can grow along with your business. Intuit's Marketplace offers tools that work with QB to make your life easier.