Make the invoice. Know when it’s paid.
An invoice generator for freelancers and small companies.
Fill in a few details and keep track of which ones are still open.
Who it’s for
For digital freelancers and small companies.
Sized for people who send a handful of invoices a month.
Designers
Bill a logo, a landing page or a monthly retainer with an invoice that doesn’t look like it came from a spreadsheet.
Developers
Hourly or fixed-price, one client or ten. Line items for each piece of work, and a list of what’s still unpaid.
Writers & content creators
Invoice per article, per batch or per month. Duplicate last month’s invoice and change the dates.
Marketers & consultants
Retainers, ad spend pass-throughs and one-off audits on the same invoice, with tax handled per line.
Small studios & agencies
A shared list of every client’s invoices, so whoever is doing the follow-up this week can see what’s open.
Small companies
A handful of customers, a handful of invoices a month. Enough to need tracking, not enough to need an accounting suite.
Why we built it
If you send a few invoices a month, most tools are built for someone else.
- P01
Too much setup
You finished a project and want to invoice it. Instead you’re configuring a chart of accounts and connecting a bank feed.
- P02
Paying for the wrong thing
The plan is priced for a finance team. You’re one person, or a team of four, and you use the invoice screen.
- P03
Hard to see what’s open
Which clients still owe you? For a freelancer or a small team that should be one glance, not a report you have to build.
One tool.
One job.
FifthInvoice makes invoices and keeps track of whether they’ve been paid. It’s sized for a freelancer or a small company, and it doesn’t do bookkeeping, payroll or payments.
- Unlimited invoices and clients
- Hourly, fixed-price and retainer line items
- Your logo and your numbering scheme
- PDF download and a shareable link
- Status for every invoice: draft, sent, viewed, paid, overdue
- Tax and discount lines, any currency
- Free
- During early access
- Unlimited
- Invoices
- PDF + link
- Every invoice
- None
- Accounting features
Features
What it does.
Fill in the details. The layout is already done.
Client, line items, tax, due date. FifthInvoice puts them on a clean, readable invoice with your logo and your numbering. Clients and services you’ve billed before are saved, so a monthly retainer takes a few seconds.
Send it as a PDF or a link.
Download the PDF and attach it to your own email, or send the link. If you use the link, the invoice is marked Viewed when your client opens it, which answers the “did they get it?” question.
One list of what’s open and what’s paid.
Every invoice has a status: draft, sent, viewed, paid or overdue. Overdue is set for you when the due date passes. Paid is a click, because the money arrives in your bank account, not through us. If you work with a partner, you both see the same list.
Reminders, if you want them.
Turn on a reminder schedule per client and a short, plain email goes out before and after the due date. You can edit the wording. If you’d rather message the client yourself, leave it off.
Assistant
In developmentAsk your invoices a question.
Plain questions about what’s open, who’s late and what a client has paid, answered from your own invoice list. No dashboards to build.
Bring your own API key. Works with OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. Nothing is sent anywhere until you add one.
Preview
Encrypted and backed up
Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and backed up daily. Standard practice, but worth saying.
Yours to take with you
Every invoice downloads as a PDF and your whole list exports as CSV. If you leave, nothing is held back.
Currently in early access. Some features are still in progress.
Try it on your next invoice.
It takes a couple of minutes to set up. Free during early access, no card required.
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