Invoice Crowd is a web application for people who send proposals and estimates, bill for the work, and then have to account for it. All of that happens in one place, on one login, without a separate bookkeeping tool underneath it.
What is inside
Two things are worth saying on an about page. What the software actually does, and the rules we hold ourselves to while adding to it.
One account, from the first quote to the year end
Proposals and estimates go out priced, with optional lines the client can accept or decline and quantities they can change. An approved estimate becomes an invoice without being retyped, and the invoice carries the payment methods you connected. The document a client signs is the document that gets billed.
Underneath the billing there is a real double-entry ledger, not a revenue chart. A chart of 184 accounts arrives already numbered, invoices and expenses post into it as they happen, and the trial balance, profit and loss and balance sheet are drawn from those postings rather than assembled at year end.
The rules that decide what gets built
The reason quoting, billing and accounting sit in one product is that splitting them is where small businesses lose time. Every feature is judged on whether it removes a hand-off, an export or a second monthly bill, and the accounting is included on the plan rather than sold as a bookkeeping add-on.
Everything planned, in progress and already released sits on a roadmap that anyone can read without an account. The documentation is open on the same terms, a support launcher is on every page of this site, and the reviews further down are reproduced as customers wrote them, most of them on Trustpilot, Capterra and G2.
What the product argues for
An about page is easy to write and hard to prove. These four are visible in the software itself, on the same plan, with nothing extra to buy.
Proposals, estimates, invoices, payments, expenses and a double-entry ledger run from one sign-in, so no figure has to be carried by hand between two systems.
Business profiles hold their own logo, colors, templates and books, so somebody running two companies is not paying for two subscriptions.
PayPal, Stripe, Razorpay, Square, Payoneer, Braintree, Authorize.net, Airwallex, GoCardless, PayFast, PayTabs, Telr, PhonePe and M-Pesa attach to documents you already send, instead of living in a separate checkout.
Bill a client in the currency they work in and still read every statement in your own, with GST-enabled invoices and a GST filing report where those apply.
Reproduced word for word, with the source named wherever the reviewer left one. The links underneath go through to the rest of them on Trustpilot and G2.
Overall, I’m extremely happy with Invoice Crowd and would recommend it to anyone looking for an easy-to-use invoicing tool. The service support is available to help with any questions or issues and they are already working on correcting some minor bugs!
Ursula L.
July 5, 2022 via Capterra
The simplicity of Invoice Crowd makes it pleasing to use. I found it intuitive and easy to deploy the first time.
Mike A.
Nov 23, 2021 via G2
Invoice Crowd has streamlined our ability generate and send professional quality invoices to our customers. The PayPal functionality built into the documents really helps to simplify the payment process for our customers. In addition, the beautifully designed web based user interface makes it easy for us to use wherever we are! I highly recommend giving Invoice Crowd a chance to simplify your day.
Jake Walker
Read the rest of them on the sites they were left on
Questions
It handles the commercial side of a small business end to end: proposals and estimates with e-signature, invoices and recurring invoices, payments through 10+ gateways, expenses, and a double-entry ledger with statements. Everything runs in a browser, on one login, with nothing to install.
Freelancers, solo operators, agencies and small businesses that quote for work before they bill for it. It suits people who currently run a billing tool and a bookkeeping tool side by side, and anyone invoicing under more than one business name.
It runs in the browser at apps.invoicecrowd.com, so there is nothing to download and nothing to keep updated. Sign in from any computer and the same account is waiting. Your documents, customers and ledger belong to the account rather than to one machine.
Paid plans are SOLO at $10, PRO at $15, TEAM at $20 and BUSINESS at $30 a month, cheaper billed annually, each opening with a 30-day trial that needs no card. There is also a free forever plan with unlimited invoices, one business profile and five customers.
Documentation is at doc.invoicecrowd.com and a support launcher is on every page of this site. Feature requests go the same way, and the public roadmap shows what is planned and what has shipped. The contact page lists which route to use for support, sales, billing or partnerships.
The clearest thing we can say about how we work is sitting inside the app. Open an account and take one proposal all the way through to the ledger.
