Comments on: Any free/simple billing websites available?

Question: Any free/simple billing websites available?

olddogeyes — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:18:02 -0800

Is there a free website/service that allows simple billing? I pay for my daughters cell phone bill monthly but she has to pay $10 towards it. I'd like to "bill her" via email automatically every month to get her introduced to the responsibility of paying bills on time. Ideally this "billing service" would be free, would allow me to enter her email and sms and keep a running tab of what she owes. Has anyone built this yet? If not, any other suggestions?

By: disillusioned

disillusioned — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:33:26 -0800

Um, perhaps the free version of Freshbooks would help, since you could invoice her via email from there...

Barring that, using Google Spreadsheets and sharing a sheet with her in read-only so that she can see which bills are due when and which have been paid?

By: devnull

devnull — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:35:39 -0800

This Inquirer article about Paypal might be helpful.

By: letahl

letahl — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 03:56:36 -0800

You can send her a Paypal invoice easy enough. She can pay it via check on the Paypal system, or to you personally and you mark it paid.

By: deadtrouble

deadtrouble — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 04:10:03 -0800

I've used Billmonk before for exactly this, with my brother. It allows you to set automatic bills, send email or sms reminders.

By: rokusan

rokusan — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 06:32:53 -0800

There are lots of online 'invoicing' systems to do most of what you need ('billing' implies there's money moving in the system, too).

http://invoicemachine.com/
https://invoice.zoho.com/
http://www.blinksale.com/
http://www.greenerbilling.com/

For one or two invoices a month, they're free (you need to pay to get into meaningful volumes like 20-100 per month). And I believe that they all let you set up automatic recurring invoices every month and statements to date.

By: alice ayres

alice ayres — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:59:46 -0800

also, billshare.

By: camcgee

camcgee — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:24:10 -0800

I use Freshbooks for my invoicing and like it a lot. You can easily set up an invoice to automatically create and send monthly. It's free for up to three clients, with no limit on number of invoices you can send.

By: systematic

systematic — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:49:06 -0800

I'm a fan of blinksale. They've got good paypal integration that will mark your invoice as paid as soon as you receive the money.

By: theDrizzle

theDrizzle — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:00:13 -0800

seconding Billmonk, my roommate and I use it and love it.

By: olddogeyes

olddogeyes — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:16:09 -0800

Thanks everyone! Exactly what I needed!

By: olddogeyes

olddogeyes — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:31:58 -0800

Billmonk is great - that's what I'm using .. thanks!