Hello Bonsai is a freelancer business management platform founded in San Francisco in 2015, serving over 500,000 independent workers worldwide. Legal contract templates, invoicing, time tracking, and tax prep are all integrated to help freelancers run their business efficiently.
Xero is a leading global cloud accounting platform founded in Wellington, New Zealand in 2006, serving 3 million+ paying subscribers, known for AI bank reconciliation, 160+ currency support, and a 1,000+ integration ecosystem, preferred by SMBs and accountants.
QuickBooks by Intuit is the most widely used SMB accounting software, serving over 7 million businesses. From Simple Start at $30/month, it covers bookkeeping, invoicing, payroll, and tax filing — a benchmark for US market finance.
Harvest is a time tracking and invoicing platform founded in New York City in 2006, serving 70,000+ companies with one-click timers, automatic invoices and profitability reports, with Teams at $9/seat/month (annual).
AND CO is a US freelancer business management platform founded in 2016 and acquired by Fiverr in 2017, offering invoicing, time tracking, proposals, contracts and client portals, but iteration has slowed since acquisition and new signups have been wound down.
Timely (timely-time) is the timeline and team management view of Timely, where automatic timelines record hours minute by minute and team views, budgets, cost rates and an API turn time into accountable business data.
Paymo's time tracking module offers unlimited timing and invoicing on the free plan, with Plus at about $10.9 per user per month. It supports one-click timing, bulk hours and timesheet reports, and links to project management and invoicing, making it a viable timing solution for service teams.
Kimai is an AGPLv3 open-source time tracking system from Germany supporting multi-project, multi-customer accounting and PDF invoice export, self-hostable for data sovereignty and a common choice for privacy- and cost-conscious teams.
Clockodo is a German time tracking and attendance management tool. The free plan supports 3 users, data is hosted in Germany under GDPR, and it combines project timing, budget comparison, leave management and automated reports.
BigTime is a professional services automation (PSA) platform founded in 2003 in Chicago, serving 3,000+ professional services firms and 80K+ daily users, with native QuickBooks integration and unified time tracking, project management, resource scheduling, and smart billing.
Paymo is a project management and time tracking platform built by a Romanian team, serving global users since 2014. Task management, Gantt charts, time tracking, and invoicing in one workspace suit freelancers and small service teams.
Zoho Books is the online accounting platform launched by Zoho in 2011, covering invoicing, bank reconciliation, multi-currency, and tax management, deeply integrated with 60+ Zoho ecosystem apps, with Standard at about $10/org/mo, making it a high-value finance solution for small and mid-sized businesses.
FreshBooks is a cloud accounting platform founded in Toronto, Canada in 2003, serving freelancers and SMBs with easy-to-use invoicing, time tracking, and expense management for over 10 million users worldwide.
TMetric is a US time tracking tool founded in 2014 that focuses on billable hours, project budgets and invoicing, integrates with 60+ tools, and serves 10000+ companies worldwide from about $4-5 per user per month.
Paymo is an integrated work management platform from Romania that combines project management, time tracking, resource scheduling and invoicing. The free plan offers unlimited time tracking and invoicing, Plus costs about $10.9 per user per month, and it suits small service teams managing from quote to payment.
Active Collab is a project management, time tracking, and invoicing platform for freelancers and small to mid-sized teams, with both cloud and self-hosted deployment starting around $6.5/user/month.