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As long as goods and services are being exchanged, invoices will always exist. They’re not fun, but web application FreshBooks makes tracking your clients, expenses, taxes, and invoices a much simpler affair.

FreshBooks’ main goal is to eliminate the hassle and headache that can come from other invoicing platforms such as Quicken, Excel, and Word. The work you’re looking to get paid for should be the difficult part; letting your client know what they owe you for your services shouldn’t be harder than the service you provided.

Like many other web-based services, FreshBooks offers a whole slew of services free to their users, with additional premium plans for some of their expanded services and features. With their free account, FreshBooks allows you to bill up to 3 clients with an unlimited number of invoices, and it also helps you in creating company logos, snail mailing out your bills (for a fee), and tracking your time spent working on a project.

FreshBooks also makes sending reminder invoices easy with a set it and forget it type feature, and it works with multiple online payment sites to help your money come in faster while still keeping track of who still owes you some dough. You can check out their pricing page for more information on which package suits your needs best.

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