Every freelance developer I know has two things in common.
They can build almost anything. And they absolutely hate doing their invoicing.
I was no different. Four years into freelancing as a web developer, I had built e-commerce platforms, custom CMS systems, complex APIs for clients. But ask me to send an invoice without it turning into a 30-minute ordeal and I'd fall apart.
The tools were the problem. They were either too complicated, too expensive, or both. I tried Wave. I tried Zoho. I even went through a phase of tracking everything in a spreadsheet like some kind of financial archaeologist digging through my own transactions at year end.
None of it worked the way my brain worked.
