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Freelance invoicing lives or dies on line item descriptions the client can understand. Typally puts your words into FreshBooks the moment you release the key, in whichever field you left the cursor.
Yes, we build Typally. That is also why the section on FreshBooks's built-in option is honest: people who switch after trying both are the ones who stay.None. Invoice fields and notes are typed.
A line saying 'consulting — 12 hours' invites a query. The line describing what was delivered gets paid without discussion, and it is longer to type, so it rarely gets written.
In practice people use it for: Invoice line descriptions, project notes, client communication, and estimate scope text.
There is no FreshBooks extension or add-in involved — Typally behaves like a very fast keyboard:
Windows or macOS, then sign in. No card for the free tier.
Click first. Typally types into FreshBooks wherever the caret already is, with no idea what that field is for.
Hold, talk, release. Long passages are fine.
Invoice line fields are single-line inputs in places and truncate long text. Draft longer descriptions in the notes section.
Typally types into invoice line items, project notes and estimate fields, so describing the outcome rather than the hours becomes the easy option. Longer descriptions reduce the 'can you explain this charge' emails, and speaking is what makes writing them worth the seconds.
A freelancer rewrites their invoice line items to describe outcomes instead of hours, dictated in a few minutes per invoice. The 'can you explain this charge' emails, previously about one invoice in four, mostly stop.
Describe the outcome, not the activity. 'Rebuilt the checkout flow and cut abandoned carts' reads differently from 'development work', and it is far easier to say than to type.
Invoice line fields are single-line inputs in places and truncate long text. Draft longer descriptions in the notes section.
No. Invoicing and project fields are typed.
They reduce client queries, because the client can see what they are paying for. Whether they change payment speed depends on your clients.
Yes — those fields are ordinary text boxes and are exactly where detail pays.
The free plan gives you 100 minutes a month without a card — enough to find out whether talking beats typing for you.
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