Invoice Ninja is a source-code available suite of apps focusing on SMB invoicing & payments, from the small company of the same name. The service boasts users among 200,000+ businesses, who use Invoice Ninja to invoice clients, track payments, expenses, and time billable tasks.
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Invoicing, Quotes, Expenses, Time-Tracking built with Laravel & Flutter
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Score 8.5 out of 10
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$29
per month
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Editions & Modules
Invoice Ninja - Self-hosted
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Invoicing, Quotes, Expenses, Time-Tracking built with Laravel & Flutter
Forever Free
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Unlimited Invoices & Quotes for 20 clients
Ninja Pro Plan
$10
per month
Enterprise Plan
$14
per month 1-2 users
Essentials
$29
per month
Business
$59
per month
Platinum
$99
per month
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Free Trial
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Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
Additional Details
Discounts available for annual pricing. Higher volume plans available for an enterprise subscription.
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Sales Force Automation
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Customer data management / contact management
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Workflow management
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7.0
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Billing and invoicing management
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Reporting
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Platform
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I think Invoice Ninja is well-suited for small businesses or freelancers with this software you can track your expenses bill and get paid using a friendly user interface, it is easy to set and configure. They have a paid version but with the open-source self-hosted version it's free and this is a great advantage over other similar softwares.
It makes client communication extremely easy - we can message and schedule online appointments. Clients really like those options. We also like the online payment portal. That way clients can pay at their convenience, and we don't end up with credit card information that requires PCI compliance. It also helps with payments. It would also help with invoicing, but unfortunately, there are only 3 linked payment options (Square, Stripe, and PayPal). If you don't use one of those payment processors, you cannot link to billing.
Very easy implementation of a contact/scheduling widget.
Allows for scheduling of appointments with clients. The setup is easy and the allotted times can be changed as needed. Easy for the client to use as well.
Managing communication between individual clients is easy as well.
Overall - easy to use. There are some missing features (like fillable pdf forms), and it also requires using certain credit card processors to link billing (otherwise it doesn't work).
I do miss the days when I could easily call up a rep and talk to them about any issues I had with the service. But I still do hear back from the customer service rep during the week within 24 hours.
I changed from Fresh Books to Invoice Ninja because Invoice Ninja while being free and open source still offers all the Fresh Books features. Also, we were able to change the estimate module to work exactly as we needed and now it allows us to do consignations to our clients that after we can convert to invoices.
vCita has been very responsive to our needs and desires for improvement in certain areas. We have appreciated the level of support we receive when a problem arises. Our biggest gain when moving was the reliability of this product's teleconferencing integration with Zoom. With OnCall we had trouble onboarding people, difficulty with the app they used going down, etc. We also had expectations about progress with Forms that we unmet.
The initial cost was high compared to other options but the features in the base level allowed even the smallest of business to grow into the paid version of the service.
The time saved with self service bookings and profile management for customers has been a big plus and made the purchase of the service worthwhile.
The constant improvements to the platform have been enough to continue to use the service as it develops into a competent CRM.