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Getting paid faster
Send the invoice the day the work is finished, with a payment option attached to it.
Tools
Square Invoices, FreshBooks, Stripe, Wave
Outcomes
Invoice out within a day of finishing • Card payment offered on every invoice • Average days to payment tracked
Documentation
Instruction-ready detail below
What breaks
Invoices go out days or weeks after the work is finished, because sending them needs a quiet moment that never arrives. The customer pays for the delay as well as the job, and the owner covers the gap.
What the workflow does
- Turn the tracked hours on a finished job into a draft invoice the same day.
- Attach a card payment link, so the customer settles in one tap instead of writing a cheque.
- Check weekly that every completed job has an invoice, and flag the ones that do not.
- Track average days from invoice date to payment date, so the improvement is visible.
What stays human
You set the rates, the deposit terms, and the payment window. You approve each invoice before it leaves, and you decide who gets a follow-up call.