Invoicing made easy with GrandTotal

If you own and run a small business, part of your work involves creating and sending invoices to clients. For many Mac users, invoices are created in Word, Excel, Numbers, or some other application that really isn't designed for that purpose.

Media Atelier might have an answer in their new Leopard-only invoicing package for Mac, GrandTotal. GrandTotal provides a number of design tools for creating a good-looking invoice to represent your organization, and free templates are available from Meda Atelier's website. You can then set up your customers, create a catalog of goods or services, create estimates or full invoices, and send them out either immediately or on a timed basis. Invoices are marked off when paid, and the Dock icon always shows how many invoices are due or overdue.

GrandTotal works hand-in-hand with Media Atelier's TimeLog 4 application, so for those of you who work on a billable hour basis can enter your time into the TimeLog app, then import into GrandTotal. A free trial is available for download (click downloads file), and the application can be purchased from within the demo for €49.

What do you use to create invoices? Leave a note in the comments.

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Source: http://www.mediaatelier.com/GrandTotal/

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Sander Velth

I've been using Billings for several year, but since the company asked me to pay for upgrade i said no and discovered Invoy. I'll never more go back. Invoy it is easy to use, readily customizable and very robust. I recommend it enthusiastically. http://www.emptyfactory.com

November 04 2008 at 11:01 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Cosmina Stefanache

Fanurio http://www.fanuriotimetracking.com helps with the less appealing aspects of freelancing like invoicing and keeping track of time. Itâ€™s a useful application, with a user-friendly interface. It can be used on Mac, Windows and Linux.

September 19 2008 at 9:42 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Evie

I use Freshbooks -- easy to set up invoices, send them to clients and track which ones remain outstanding. Very easy to use, good interface.

September 18 2008 at 11:04 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

bloodthirstyrobot

Add my vote for Billings. Still the leader at everything...but its UI needs a serious overhaul.

September 17 2008 at 3:05 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

matthew burnham

cginvoicer - it was hard to find a reliable invoicer that works back on 10.3.9

September 17 2008 at 2:22 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Andy

FreshBooks FTW. They're really nice guys (Canadians, obv), their software works great, and to date after two years I've yet to pay them a dime.

September 17 2008 at 2:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Harry LIme

Wow, am stunned no one here has said they use Filemaker Pro.

Hard to believe actually.

Speechless.

September 17 2008 at 12:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Alex MacColl

There is a reason the MS Office suite is number 1 with small business.

That App is long winded "double entry book keeping" which reminds me of using MYOB or SAGE.

I much prefer excel for this, and to be quite fair, the invoices dont look any worse.

September 17 2008 at 10:29 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

katexter

TheArtist, Thanks for the tip! I've always been googling for an invoicing site whenever I need to create one.

September 17 2008 at 3:46 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

PARezzano@gmail.com

I use the Timelog app from this same author, and that is absolutely fantastic. By virtue of the fact I use Timelog, and this product integrates with that, I'd probably be inclined to weigh this product in lieu of the current Numbers/Pages method.

September 16 2008 at 8:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply