Proposal
A designed document with sections, a pricing table and a signature field the client fills in on screen.
One account connects proposals, estimates, invoices, payments, purchasing and accounting views. The report layer keeps differences and historical review visible rather than claiming every report is automatically a guaranteed double-entry or statutory statement.
How the work moves
The core workflow reuses business-scoped customer, item and document records between proposals, estimates, invoices, payments, purchasing and reports. Each conversion and report keeps its own review boundary.
A designed document with sections, a pricing table and a signature field the client fills in on screen.
A priced quote with lines, tax and recipient choices, approved online instead of by a countersigned PDF.
Approval carries the same lines into an invoice, with a deposit up front if that is how the job is staged.
The client settles it from the portal through whichever gateway you connected, in one payment or several.
Each document and payment posts to the ledger, so the statements are already written when you go looking.
The three jobs
The product divides into three parts and most people meet them in that order. Each part below points at the page that covers it in full.
Proposals and estimates, before any money moves
Proposal documents can combine editable text, media, tables, pricing and approval fields under the selected business identity. Available templates and reusable content depend on the current proposal workspace.
An estimate is the version for buyers who want a number rather than a pitch: lines, quantities, custom tax and discount rates. Enable Remove Items for the estimate so a client can remove saved lines before approval, or open quantity customization so they choose how many hours or units they are buying.
From an approved document to money in the account
Document lists expose draft, sent, part-paid, overdue and other implemented states. Configured reminders, late-fee rules and credit-note workflows remain separate actions with their own eligibility checks.
Invoice Crowd includes several provider-specific payment paths. Availability depends on the merchant account, region, currency, document and requested checkout or recurring flow; verified partial or split collection is used only where that path supports it.
The ledger underneath, and the reports it feeds
Profit and loss is built from entries your invoices and expenses already made, month by month across the financial year. Behind it sit a chart of 184 accounts, a general ledger you can drill into, manual journals for adjustments and a trial balance that has to balance.
Aged debt shows who is late and by how long, income and expense reports show where the money went, and the GST filing report gathers what a return asks for. Reports can arrive by email on a schedule, and an expense keeps its receipt attached to the transaction.
One subscription
A proposal tool, a billing tool, a payment page and a bookkeeping package is four subscriptions and three exports between them. These four things are one account here.
A signed proposal, the invoice it became and the ledger entry behind it are the same record, so there is no month-end matching between two subscriptions.
Business profiles retain separate identity, document, tax, payment and reporting context. The number available follows the current plan and any applicable allowance shown in billing.
PayPal, Stripe, Razorpay, Square, Payoneer, Braintree, Authorize.net, Airwallex, GoCardless, PayFast, PayTabs, Telr and M-Pesa connect to the documents you send, and you decide which appear on which one.
A customer-facing document can use its transaction currency while accounting views retain configured base-currency context and stored exchange evidence. Review any visible reporting difference.
Quoting and billing
Each card is a feature with a page of its own, laid out in the order a job usually moves through them.
Price the lines, add custom tax and discount rates, then send it out for approval online.
Enable Remove Items for the estimate so a client can remove saved lines; totals recalculate and at least one line remains.
Let the client set how many hours or units they are agreeing to buy before approving.
An approved estimate becomes an invoice with the same lines, by hand or on its own.
Build a bill line by line with tax, discounts, custom fields and the template you chose.
Bundle services you always sell together and add the bundle to a quote as one line.
Bill a retainer on a repeating schedule and let each cycle raise its own document.
Use the reminder and late-fee settings supported by the current invoice workflow, plan and configuration.
Clients sign in to read, approve, download and pay without an email thread in between.
Stack text, image, table and pricing blocks into a document the client reads and signs in the browser.
Every quote in one list with its status, its history and the invoice the approval produced.
Follow a bill from draft through sent, part paid and settled, with credit notes for corrections.
The rest of the account
The parts that keep working after a document has been sent, and the connections out to tools you already run.
Connect multiple provider integrations and set which of them each document offers for payment.
Take a deposit up front and collect the balance in stages, each with its own date.
Record a cost against the right account and business profile, with the receipt attached.
Read income against expenses for any period, straight from the ledger invoices post to.
One file per client holding their estimates, invoices, payments and portal access.
Send selected invoice and payment events to a webhook receiver you configure; any downstream automation remains customer-managed.
Wire the same events into Pabbly if that is where your automations already live.
An email notification workflow for clients who answer their phone faster than their inbox.
Plan names, prices, allowances and signup terms are shown on the live pricing page and can change over time.
A chart of 184 accounts, a general ledger, manual journals and a trial balance behind them.
Invoice, aged debt, income, expense and GST filing reports, sent by email on a schedule you set.
Record suppliers, enter the bills they send, raise purchase orders and hold vendor credits against them.
Questions
Proposals with e-signature, estimates, invoices, recurring invoices, packages and credit notes on the sales side. Customers, a client portal, vendors, bills and purchase orders around them. Underneath sits accounting workflows with visible integrity checks with 184 accounts, plus reports, an AI assistant, team roles and notification settings.
Yes. Nothing forces a document through the earlier stages, so you can raise invoices without ever writing a proposal, and leave the accounting screens alone if a bookkeeper handles them. The modules you skip stay out of the way rather than asking to be set up.
Plans differ by profile, proposal and team allowances. Review the live pricing page for the limits and terms that apply when you subscribe.
No. Invoice Crowd runs in the browser at apps.invoicecrowd.com, so a laptop, a borrowed desktop and a phone all reach the same account with nothing to download and no version to keep current. Clients install nothing either, since documents reach them as a link.
Through shared records rather than exports. An estimate converts into an invoice carrying its own lines, the payment attaches to that invoice, and both post to the ledger. The customer file holds every document and payment, so one screen answers what a client has had and owes.
Review the live pricing page before signup for current prices, billing intervals, trial terms, included profiles and available payment integrations.
Write a proposal, turn the approval into an invoice, take the payment, then open the ledger and read what it recorded. That is the entire product in an afternoon.