How to Create an Invoice: A Step-by-Step Guide
What an invoice must contain, how to number them, setting payment terms, and exporting a PDF.
Read the guideInvoicing & Quotation Guides
Practical, jargon-free guides to invoicing clients, quoting work and writing proposals. Written for freelancers and small businesses who want to get paid on time.
Invoicing
Creating invoices correctly, the different invoice types, and what each one is for.
Freelance Invoicing: A Complete Guide
Invoicing as a freelancer end to end: your first invoice, rates, deposits, international clients and records.
Read the guideWhat Is a Proforma Invoice?
What a proforma invoice is, when to send one, and how it differs from a quotation and a commercial invoice.
Read the guidePurchase Order vs Invoice
Who issues a purchase order, who issues an invoice, and why a missing PO number stops you getting paid.
Read the guideGetting paid
Payment terms, deposits, and what to do when an invoice goes unpaid.
Invoice Payment Terms Explained
What Net 30, Net 15, due on receipt and 2/10 Net 30 actually mean, and which terms get you paid fastest.
Read the guideHow to Chase an Unpaid Invoice
A calm, escalating sequence for recovering late payments without damaging the client relationship.
Read the guideQuotations
Quoting work, setting scope and validity, and knowing which document to send.
How to Write a Quotation
How to write a price quotation that wins the work and cannot be argued with later.
Read the guideInvoice vs Quotation: What Is the Difference?
Quote first to win the work, invoice afterwards to get paid. Where estimates and proposals fit.
Read the guideProposals
Winning work with a proposal that covers scope, deliverables and timeline.
How to Write a Business Proposal
The structure of a proposal that wins work: executive summary, scope, deliverables, timeline and pricing.
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