Invoice somebody your account already knows.

The estimate, invoice, and contract come out of the client record you already keep: one person to keep current, not several copies.

The FableForge client manager and a small-business owner at a table with one glowing client card between them, an estimate, an invoice and a contract fanning out of it.

Typing in somebody you’ve invoiced twenty times.

Twenty invoices to the same person, and the app still opens by asking who they are. Name, email, address. You could type their email with your eyes closed, and most months you do.

That’s the small version. The bigger one is what happens when something about them changes. A new email address. A new business name. A note about what they’ve been doing with you. You fix it in whichever app you’re in when you find out, and the rest get it the next time you’re in them. It’s not one update. It’s the same update, made again wherever you keep them.

A small-business owner typing into an empty three-field form on a laptop, a thick, well-worn client folder lying open beside it.

Every estimate, invoice, and contract starts from the client you already have.

That’s the whole of it. You never type the same person’s details twice.

Estimate, invoice, and contract: one path, not three handoffs.

  • The estimate— what you’re proposing, priced.
  • The invoice— the same work, now billed.
  • The contract— the terms you’re both working to.

Usually those are three jobs in three different tools, and every one of them opens by asking who the client is. Here they’re the same job, in the same account, built from the same record. Nothing gets handed between systems, and nothing gets typed again on the way across.

Any one of those steps can set something else going on its own.

What your client sees when the estimate and invoice arrive.

Now stand on their side of it. They booked the time with you. The confirmation came. There’ve been a couple of emails since, and now the estimate arrives, and after the work, the invoice.

All of it came from one business, and it looks like it did. The estimate matches the confirmation, which matches the emails, which match the website they found you on.

Nobody remarks on that. It just reads as one business, because it is one.

A customer with silver curls and round glasses reading an estimate on their phone, a confirmation email and a website tab floating behind them in the same colours.

What invoicing costs.

Invoicing is part of the software at $127 a month. Send the first estimate yourself, or put the setup in your queue and the team does it for you.

Questions people ask about invoicing.

Do I have to enter the client’s details again to invoice them?

No. The estimate and the invoice come from the client record you already keep, so their name, their email, and what they’ve been doing with you are already on it. You’re billing somebody the account already knows.

Can I send an estimate and turn it into an invoice?

Yes. They’re the same job in the same account, built from the same record. The invoice isn’t a rebuild of the estimate, and nothing gets copied across by hand.

Will what my client receives look like it came from my business?

Yes. The documents go out from the same account as everything else your client gets from you: the booking confirmation, the emails, the site they found you on. One business sent all of it, and it arrives that way.

Is invoicing extra, or part of the software?

Part of it. Estimates, proposals, contracts, and invoices are in the account from day one. There’s nothing to switch on and no tier to move up to.

What the price includes

A small-business owner in a cream cardigan sitting on a low cushion, chin resting on their hands, looking up at a small floating speech bubble.

Other features that work with invoicing.

  • Selling online

    When somebody buys from you on your website, and no invoice ever goes out.

  • CRM

    The client record all of this paperwork comes out of.

  • Booking

    When you’d rather be paid at the moment somebody books the time.

  • Automations

    What can happen on its own once a document goes out.

The paperwork keeps up when a client’s details change.

Twenty invoices in, the same person asks what the next job would cost. You open their record, and the estimate starts from what’s already there: who they are, how to reach them, what they’ve done with you. The invoice comes from the same record when the work’s done, and so does the contract. When their email changes, you change it once.

Sending it is still your job, and so is deciding what it says. Keeping every copy of them matching isn’t anybody’s.

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