SettleDue Blog
Practical advice on invoicing, time tracking, and getting paid. Written for freelancers, contractors, and trades professionals.
August 20, 2026
You finished the work. Now you need to get paid. That means sending an invoice, and if you have never done it before, the process can feel uncertain. What do you include? When do you send it? What if the client does not pay?
This guide walks through...
Read more →August 15, 2026
QuickBooks is the default recommendation whenever someone says "I need to send invoices." But for most freelancers, it is the wrong tool. QuickBooks is accounting software. It tracks journal entries, reconciles bank accounts, and manages a chart of...
Read more →May 19, 2026
Simple invoicing software has one job. It helps you send a clear bill and get paid, without a finance degree. Most small businesses buy far more than that. They sign up for a full accounting suite, lose an afternoon to setup screens, and then use one...
Read more →March 10, 2026
Tree service invoicing is where a good crew loses money or spends a month chasing the balance. You climbed the tree, ran the chipper, and hauled the brush. But the number on the invoice is the part the customer reads, and it has to hold up. Price it...
Read more →December 16, 2025
Notary work looks simple to bill until you send your first mobile invoice and realize the stamp is the cheap part. Notary invoicing has a rule that catches new notaries off guard: the fee for the notarial act itself is capped by your state, so the...
Read more →October 14, 2025
The best time to get paid is before you start. A deposit invoice puts part of the money in your account while the job is still on paper, which means you are not carrying all the risk alone. Most clients expect it. The ones who push back hardest are...
Read more →July 22, 2025
You did the work and sent the bill, and now you are waiting. How long you wait depends almost entirely on your invoice payment terms, the small line most people paste in without thinking. Net 30, due on receipt, a deposit up front: each one changes...
Read more →May 13, 2025
Late payment is the most common cash-flow problem for freelancers and small trades, and most of it is preventable. If you want to know how to get clients to pay on time, the work starts before you send a single invoice. The habits that get you paid...
Read more →February 25, 2025
If you bill by the hour, your time is your inventory. Learning how to track time as a freelancer is the difference between billing what you actually worked and billing what you can remember on invoice day. Memory loses money. It rounds down, it forgets...
Read more →December 10, 2024
A contractor invoice is a payment request and a legal record at the same time. Get contractor invoicing right and you get paid on time, with less back and forth. Leave a field off and the client has a reason to hold your check. This is the full list...
Read more →September 24, 2024
You just cleared the drain, closed up the panel, or got the AC blowing cold again. The customer is happy, and now you need to get paid. Knowing how to invoice for trade work is what turns a finished job into money in your account. Field service billing...
Read more →July 16, 2024
Estimates and invoices look almost the same on paper. The invoice vs estimate question trips up plenty of new business owners, because the two documents share a layout but do completely different jobs.
An estimate asks a client to approve a job. An...
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