Invoice Ninja

Invoice Ninja is an open-source & free billing plus invoicing tool. Clients can create bespoke invoices from any internet-enabled device.

Being self-hosted, many features are already integrated & ready for use. Offering flexible solutions, clients are able to download & print the invoices. Furthermore, they have the convenient option to pay sellers directly in situ.

Their time-tracked & streamlined live task workflow entails other apps & allows the creation of invoices on-demand. Its useful reporting expenses facility supports this. It’s this synergistic & harmonised concept that makes Invoice Ninja unique as well as appealing. 

If one feels the urge to remove the ‘courtesy message Created by InvoiceNinja’ from their invoices, they can by paying a premium of $8 per month for individuals. For enterprises, it ranges from $ 12 – 36.  

Their app has a host of freebies including 4 free invoice templates, a live PDF generator, payment integration with over 30 gateways, your very own company logo & last but not least – receive payments online for free! 

An alternative to this is the Pro Invoicing option which provides 10 bespoke invoice templates, customised invoice theme, mailable & attachable payment links, as well as many other wonderful features (to name but a few). This comes at an annual cost of $50.

So Invoice Ninja provides convenience & efficiency. However, it does have a few (albeit relatively minor)  inherent issues. Let’s take a look at what these are:

• Users report that they’re unable to assign a specific payment method to invoices
• Some bugs or technical glitches prevent invoice previews from being displayed. However, this is remedied with setting changes. Some functions are somewhat complex to initially understand or use
• Discrepancies in invoice dates (depending on time zone differences) exist
• A lack of technical support is flagged by some users

Therefore, consider opting for Invoice Ninja for all your invoicing needs. It’s fairly simple, convenient & comprehensive to use. Just remember that with all this convenience does come the nag of dealing with some annoyances. These are namely complexity in deploying features, perplexing data discrepancies on invoices & a lack of broad support at times.

Top Features Highlights

Reports

You can easily analyze your financial data with all the tools we provide. The reports are available for weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting periods that let you see what’s trending in a timely manner as well as export it to XLS or PDF files if needed.

Quotes

Invoice Ninja makes it easy to convert quotes into invoices. You can either send your clients an initial price quote or update them on the progress of work at any time with our easy-to-use interface and reporting features!

Client Portal

The Client Portal is where your clients go to manage all their Invoice Ninja activities with you. Viewing and paying invoices, checking payments or invoice history – now they can also keep up on a real time overview of their Total Balance amount by logging into the client dashboard!