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I'd love to hear what people are using for sending invoices (with follow up emails if it's not paid) and collecting payment (ACH/CC). I've used Wave Accounting and Stripe for my invoices but I hate paying the Stripe invoice+tax fee but it's still less than the Amex fee on Wave so I put up with it. Maybe these are the best tools available to me at this price point and for my usage (4-6 invoices a year, $2-10K/ea) but I'm open to alternatives.

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Self-hosted InvoiceNinja 4 & Stripe integration. Works great, sends follow-up emails, adds gateway fees to the invoice.

I've been using Zoho-books for my minor accounting needs. It's been great (and free!).

https://books.zoho.com/

I use FreeAgent. It connects with all my business accounts and does automatic transaction matching to invoices. Sends emails and follow-ups. It also figures out all the tax things for me in the UK, not sure about other countries though.

https://www.freeagent.com/

Completely unrelated, but reading "FreeAgent" just now released a core memory for me of reading USENET in the 90s with the free version of Forte Agent. This site has the 16-color image that IIRC was the basis of the icon for Free Agent: http://www.diginfoserv.com/agent.html .. I think the icon was just zoomed in on the lady at the table?

edit: wow, of course there was a 16 bit version available:

> Agent is fully supported by the Agent Support Team and is available in 16 bit and 32 bit versions.

Wow, I haven't thought about that application in a long time! I used Forte Agent to read USENET in the '90s and met my first girlfriend on there.

We self-hosted invoiceninja for a few years. I liked it enough, but it wasn't perfect by any means.

What do you not like about InvoiceNinja?

Belgian company, very complete offering ( used to be called OpenERP) - https://www.odoo.com/

Note: I have OpenERP v7 still running for free ( well, except my VPS).

While i have only heard of Odoo and never actually used nor set it up, i thought it is more of a bugger, comprehensive ERP system...which might be overkill if one only needs an invoice generated here or there...no?

EDIT: * bigger

You can use the modules you want.

If you only want the invoicing module, I think it's free in the cloud.

That sounds cool!

I've been self-hosting invoice-ninja for a number of years now... quite like it. Coupled with integration with Mollie payments all invoices also have a payment link and most smaller invoice payments are processed automatically.

I’m using Wave as well and I really like it. I only accept check or bank transfer (I don’t mind the 1% fee). It’s very feature rich for a free product.

I use e-mail with the invoice attached as a PDF for sending invoices, and I receive all my invoices in this way also.

I use Harvest with an option to use Stripe for payment.

I self-host Pancake, I like it.

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