money tracking as a freelancer
harvest? freshbooks? paymo? pulse? makesometime? do any of you use any of these?
right now i track hours using a pomodoro timer, which saves all my data as a text document (so i have a record of how i've spent every 25min of work, which i round up to half an hour), and i create invoices in excel, and i have no system in place to easily check, right now, what invoices are outstanding and how much $$ should be coming my way and what clients to contact to say "i submitted an invoice 60 days ago; can you look into the status of my payment please?" nor do i have any easy way to see how many hours i work per week.
my concerns with the systems i mentioned at the top are that most of my clients like pdf invoices, not cloud-based ones (do those systems export pdfs?); i never ever get paid by paypal; i often invoice based on pages edited rather than hours, though i still want to know for myself what my payment works out to per hour; and some clients require that i use their own invoice templates. will any of those systems work with those restrictions and still help me track outstanding payments, for example?
right now i track hours using a pomodoro timer, which saves all my data as a text document (so i have a record of how i've spent every 25min of work, which i round up to half an hour), and i create invoices in excel, and i have no system in place to easily check, right now, what invoices are outstanding and how much $$ should be coming my way and what clients to contact to say "i submitted an invoice 60 days ago; can you look into the status of my payment please?" nor do i have any easy way to see how many hours i work per week.
my concerns with the systems i mentioned at the top are that most of my clients like pdf invoices, not cloud-based ones (do those systems export pdfs?); i never ever get paid by paypal; i often invoice based on pages edited rather than hours, though i still want to know for myself what my payment works out to per hour; and some clients require that i use their own invoice templates. will any of those systems work with those restrictions and still help me track outstanding payments, for example?