CurdBee - Sweet and Simple Billing

Getting paid is nice (understatement), but writing, sending and keeping track of invoices—not so much. Billing and invoicing are probably the least fun and least glamorous parts of freelancing and running your own business.

Do you use PayPal or Google Checkout to send invoices and receive payments? These are great tools for getting paid, but there’s still an easier way.

CurdBee is great for sending and organizing your invoices online.

CurdBee—Easy and Free Online Billing and Invoicing

CurdBee is a free online billing and invoicing service that lets you send and organize invoices and accept payments via PayPal, Google Checkout or postal mail. Think BlinkSale, but completely free.

Get More Organized

With CurdBee, you can invoice clients and give them the choice to pay via PayPal or Google Checkout. Once an invoice has been created, you can tract it and all payments via CurdBee without having to jump from your PayPal account to your Google account and back to check payments.

CurdBee organizes invoices by their status: Draft, Overdue, Recently Paid and Recently Sent.

You can also keep track of the total amount due by individual clients.

Multiple Currencies

CurdBee also allows for invoicing and accepting payments in 10 currencies. You don’t have to bill clients in USD (US dollars).

You can also send invoices in your own currency and receive payments in other currencies (currently cross-currency payments only work with PayPal).

Simple to Use

Unlike some online financial tools, CurdBee’s interface is about as simple to use as possible. There are only 5 tabs to choose from: Dashboard, Invoices, Clients, Items and Settings.

It’s so simple you’ll be up and running in just a couple minutes.

Connecting to Your PayPal and Google Accounts

Setting up payment gateways (PayPal, Google Checkout) is easy as well. Just go to Settings>Currency & Payment Gateways, check the box next to each account(s) you want to enable, and fill in your PayPal email address and your Google Checkout Merchant ID and Key. That’s it. Simple as pie.

Another neat feature is that you can see when clients have actually viewed your invoice.

Make It Your Own

You can customize and brand your invoices in CurdBee by adding your logo and choosing the header, header text and invoice page background colors.

The only disappointing thing about the color options was that you can’t type in your own hex values (you have to pick from the predefined colors).

Try CurdBee

CurdBee doesn’t sync with your bank account, interact with BaseCamp or let you purchase Chilean hiking boots from your livingroom. But if you just want a free and easy way to send and manage PayPal and Google Checkout invoices online, give it a try.

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