Without invoicing, those clients won’t know how much they have to pay, the supplier won’t know who has paid and who they need to chase up… and the government will lack the paperwork it needs to be sure they’ve received all the taxes they’re due. It’s far from the most enjoyable part of running a business but it is as essential as marketing and meeting deadlines. They list them for each person who placed an order, they set an invoice price for each task, add taxes and other expenses, and they send those invoices off, making sure that nothing has been forgotten. They start it because they could never do anything but be their own boss.Īnd yet, each month, they find themselves putting aside their product development, their marketing, their customer service and the work they’re supposed to be doing for their clients in order to spend hours listing all of the tasks they’ve performed over the last thirty or so days. They start it because they want to be independent, to make their own decisions and to run their own life.

They start it because they have a burning idea and an unstoppable desire to make it happen. No one ever starts a business with the aim of sending invoices.