For designers
Design invoices that say what the hours went into.
A client reading “Design work, 15 hours” has to take your word for it. Paste the notes you kept during the week, enter your hours and your rate, and each piece of the work gets its own dated line.
Free plan: 3 drafted invoices a month. No card.
Your notesExample Coffee Co. rebrand
- mon 11/2 - kickoff w/ Dana, went thru old menu + signage
Nov 2Kickoff call and review of the existing menu and signage1.5 h$127.50- tue - 3 logo directions, rough
Nov 3Three logo directions sketched for review4 h$340.00- wed - Dana picked #2. refined it, built palette
Nov 4Refined the chosen logo and built the color palette3.5 h$297.50- thu - menu layout
- thu pm - 2 rounds of changes on menu
Nov 5Laid out the new menu, with two rounds of changes4 h$340.00- fri - exports, brand sheet
Nov 6Exported the final files and wrote a one-page brand sheet2 h$170.00
You enter
15 h × $85.00$1,275.00
What you give it
Whatever you already keep. You don’t have to change how you work to use it.
Then you enter the client, the dates, your total hours and your rate. The hours are yours to decide. Nothing is sent until you’ve read the draft.
How a draft is made- Notes
- A few lines a day in your own shorthand. Paste them or upload the file. None of it has to be tidy.
- A time-tracker export
- The CSV file your time tracker exports. The hours it tracked are offered as your total, and entries marked not billable are left out.
- Nothing at all
- You can also write an invoice line by line. That is free and unlimited on both plans.
What your client receives
Hours, flat fees and costs on one invoice
- Hours. Concepts, revisions, calls and production time, each on a dated line at your rate. A single line can carry its own rate, for rush work or art direction.
- Flat fee or per item. A fixed-price logo, or six social templates at a price each. You add these by hand; the draft writes the hours.
- Expense. A font license, stock images or a print proof, on its own line at the amount you enter.
It arrives as a PDF attached to an email in your business’s name. Your client pays you directly, by PayPal, Venmo, Zelle, Apple Pay or your own Stripe link, and never needs an account.
To try the layout without an account, open the graphic design invoice template.
Can I put a fixed-price logo and hourly revisions on the same invoice?
Yes. Add the logo as a flat fee and the revisions as hours. Once an invoice has a line that isn’t hours, its columns read Qty and Price, and each hourly line shows its hours and its rate.
Can I pass on stock photos, fonts or printing costs?
Yes. Add each one as an expense. It appears on its own line at the amount you enter, and nothing is added to it. If you charge a markup, enter the amount you are billing.
Do I have to track my time to use it?
No. It never runs a timer. You enter the total hours for the period and it divides them across the work in your notes. If you do track time, upload the export and the tracked total is offered as your hours.
Does it send my design files to the client?
No. It emails the invoice as a PDF, with the ways you take payment listed on it. Deliver the files the way you already do.
It’s the wrong tool if
- You need sales tax or VAT on the invoice, or a currency other than US dollars. Neither is supported yet.
- You want proposals, contracts or client approvals in the same tool. This does invoices and nothing else.
Write this week’s invoice from this week’s work.
The Free plan covers 3 drafted invoices a month, which is one client billed every two weeks.
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Free plan: 3 drafted invoices a month. No card.
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