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I don't know if I speak for other users, but rather than focusing on invoicing, why not tie into Quickbooks? Or similar services. i.e. There's already invoicing software. If the integration between the timesheets is the only differentiator, why rewrite the invoicing part?

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This app fits a use case I had a few years ago. I was travelling and doing odd jobs (WordPress tweaks and the like) and needed something I could use to track time and generate an invoice.

QuickBooks & Xero et al were waaay more than I needed or wanted to pay for.

I ended up using the free tier of Toggl, doing a CSV export and generating a butt-ugly invoice from Excel.

If this tool were available, I'd have used it.

What you're describing is the exact point of this project!

I've been doing exactly what you described but using a separate service to generate and track invoices (Cushion).

Invoicing in Bonsai is also free and pretty nice, especially if using other parts of their service.

I'm also currently exploring the invoice integration in Wave.

Both of these are free.

If you're interested, I built www.minute7.com which is a time (and expense) tracker that does integrate directly with Intuit's QuickBooks (we're even near the top of their app store listing on apps.intuit.com as the only major player without major funding and a huge sales team :)

Agree I don't need invoicing, already use Simple Invocies (https://simpleinvoices.io) which integrates with Stripe.

Focus on the time tracking, reporting, etc.

I do plan on supporting things like Quickbooks via the export system and creating an actual workflow around that past just an "export" button and then "import".

For my own use case I would like to have one location to enter time then select a range, hit "invoice" and be able to send that to a client with a very simple credit card payment system.

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Welcome to the niche, I've only been here for a year and I've been amazed at just how deep and complex a time tracking application really is.

Because Quickbooks is paid? I'd prefer not to have to pay a big amount of money when I can get a simple invoice system for free.

Also, I didn't find where to generate an invoice.

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