Free Invoice Software

Posted: 6th Dec 2010 (2 comments)

What is Invoice Bubble and why is it free?

That is a question we get asked often, why is it free invoice software? How do you make any money?

Well Invoice Bubble is about the only free online invoicing software out there and we wanted to make that our focus, being free but also providing a great quality app with lots of amazing features you would expect from an online invoicing tool.

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Help Us Grow!

Posted: 29th Nov 2010 (11 comments)

Help us grow and in return we will develop Invoice Bubble into the most awesome free invoice software out there!

So we're back in to Development Roadmaps and plans for how to make Invoice Bubble even more incredible. It's been a while since we did anything, but that's because we had to sort out some important company stuff. Now that's over we are planning some new updates.

The updates include some really useful things that will help you create invoices free:

  • Improved Invoice Pages (better fields and columns)
  • The Quantity Changing Price thing, that you all request
  • Saved Items
  • Our own API

We also have other stuff we want to do, and feel free to make suggestions below, but first we need your help.

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Stop Paying to Send Your Invoices

Posted: 16th Oct 2010 (4 comments)

How much are you paying to send invoices at the moment?

$39 per month, $19 per month? Perhaps you pay someone $500 per month to do this for you? Maybe you don't pay anything and you just use a simple Excel spreadsheet and a Word document template?

There are lots of hosted web applications out there that charge a premium for you to do something that probably used to cost you nothing, except maybe a bit of time. If you use an Excel spreadsheet and a Word template then you join hundreds of thousands of other small businesses and freelancers who do the same thing (and pay nothing to do it!).

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New Dashboard Feature!

Posted: 2nd Sep 2010 (2 comments)

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Check out the slick new Dashboard!

  • See all the money that Invoice Bubble has collected for you
  • See how much you are owed altogether
  • Get an overview on what is due, and see recent invoices

We thought it would be a 'nice little touch' to put this Dashboard in and it's the first phase of a round of updates that we are doing which will improve Invoice Bubble. Look out for the second phase which will include lots of stuff that you have been requesting.

We have also fixed a few bugs, and made things a lot quicker when viewing Invoices and Estimates (especially for those who had a lot of invoices on one page!).

So enjoy!

Credits due to Pancake App for the idea.

Testimonial of the Month

Posted: 18th Jun 2010 (0 comments)

Our June testimonial comes from Robin Good who is an independent publisher, specialist in new media and has over 11,000 followers on Twitter. We're glad to have him!

Invoice Bubble is a little dream come true. I hate to prepare invoices, check them for accuracy, format them and send them out. I just hate it. It is not my type of job.

Invoice Bubble makes invoicing customers an enjoyable breeze, and a task that takes me 1/10th of the time that I used to spend doing.

If you are a creative, always-thinking person like me, and hate to be bogged down by tedious, accounting-style work Invoice Bubble is a refreshing discovery I am recommending to all my friends... but don't trust me on this.... see for yourself!

- Robin Good
Independent Publisher
MasterNewMedia.org

If you want to write a Testimonial for us, submit it using the Contact link in the footer, thanks!

Create Invoices Free!

Posted: 14th Jun 2010 (3 comments)

Invoice Bubble is now completely free with no limitations!

The only difference between free and paid accounts is that we put a "powered by" link in your invoices and emails, that's it!

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Why and how have you made it free?

Well, we want Invoice Bubble to grow of course! Because of the success of Project Bubble (a natural upgrade path for those who want project management as well as invoicing), we can afford to make Invoice Bubble free. Also the free plan is subsidized by the paid plan which removes our links.

We know that by making Invoice Bubble free, it will become very popular very quickly - and we hope that we can encourage our users to move to Project Bubble for their project management. If they don't want to, that's fine, we just ask they tell their friends about Invoice Bubble.

Will you still develop Invoice Bubble?

Yes we will, in fact we are working on the API at this moment, along with the iPhone app and other new features.

What if I already upgraded and paid?

Your account will not be affected at all, you will just continue to get the unbranded, professional looking invoices without any links. You will also get our top notch, priority support for the same $5 per month you are currently paying.

Completely free?! Really?!

Yup, no limitations at all. Unlimited invoicing, estimates, repeat billing, unlimited clients and SSL - for free.

Forever?!

Hopefully so. We're committed at least for the next year, then after that we'll see how it goes but there will always be a free account.

Enjoy, and please tell your friends!

Send Snail Mail Invoices to Your Clients

Posted: 5th May 2010 (6 comments)

We will soon be launching a feature that lets you send your invoices through snail mail at the click of a button

We will print your invoices on really nice paper with your logo and a return address for a small fee of $1.97 per invoice.

All you need to do is purchase virtual stamps from us (sold in packs) and these will be credited to your account for you to use as and when you like.

We then then send the invoice through the mail the next day. Simple as that!.

Note that this feature will be for US customers only for the first phase.

Are you interested in using this feature? Let us know by dropping us a comment below.

Updated (June 2010): We are currently putting this new feature on hold because we are developing the API and iPhone app which must come first and is in big demand!

PDF email attachments

Posted: 14th Apr 2010 (0 comments)

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We have just launched another round of new features. Invoice Bubble now benefits from the following cool new features:

  • PDF attachments in emails lets you fire off invoices and estimates without requiring your client to visit the website to get the PDF
  • Convert estimate to invoice by clicking on the options button in the Estimates page. This feature is useful for those who have an approved estimate that they want to turn in to an invoice.
  • Company Details in the My Account page now show underneath the main company address in your invoices and estimates. So you can use this for things like email, telephone number or tax information.
  • Improved Logo Resizing intelligently works out the best way to resize your logo so it will always look good.

We have also fixed bugs and improved the speed of things.

Enjoy!

Duplicate Invoices

Posted: 11th Apr 2010 (0 comments)

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You can now duplicate your invoices! So if you have raised an invoice and want to send another one that is exactly the same then just click "Duplicate Invoice". Simple as that.

This is also especially useful if you want to set up invoice templates which are invoices that are pretty much the same, but are for different clients. Just create your invoice template, don't set a client and then when you duplicate the new invoice template just edit it and select your new client. Done.

What's coming up?

Posted: 8th Apr 2010 (12 comments)

We have some exciting stuff in the pipeline that you will love.

There are lots of ideas, and things that we want to develop but we will be focusing on making sure the app stays simple and easy to use throughout all of this.

Some developments that you will see over the next few months will be:

  • Physical mailing (snail mail for $1.97 per invoice)
  • API (a way to connect your own applications)
  • Customizable invoice templates (control look and feel)
  • Localization and language packs

The mailing feature is the first on our list, and this will be ready within a few weeks. The service will be available to US customers only for the first few months.

If you want to see anything else, let us know in the comments :-)