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The 9 closest of 13, each with its real monthly cost at 25 clients and what it does that Square Invoices does not. See all 14.
Every platform here that costs less than Square Invoices gives up something we verified. There is no cheaper like-for-like, so the question is which feature you are willing to trade, and the cards below name it for each one. That is a point in its favour, not a dodge.
Not a bookkeeping tool and not cheap for a business that sends many high-value invoices: there are no bank feeds, expenses or books on the page, the fee is a percentage of every payment, and the paid plans are per location at $49 and $149.
It runs $0 a month at 25 clients with the add-ons it forces on you included. Nothing else we list in accounting and invoicing platforms costs less than that.
Ranked by how much of what we record for Square Invoices each platform also does. Zoho Invoice is the nearest, and it is the same money at 25 clients. Nothing we verified is missing; the only gaps are features Square Invoices lists and Zoho Invoice does not, which is weaker evidence.
Same money$0 at 5
A freelancer or very small business that wants to invoice, chase payments and log expenses for nothing, and does not mind two users and 500 invoices a year.
Prices are the real monthly cost at 25 clients with the add-ons each platform forces on you included, from the same engine the shortlist quiz uses.
$18 a month dearer$18 at 5
A freelancer or small studio that wants a full invoicing, quoting and time-tracking tool for $14 a month or less, and the option to run it on its own server for nothing.
$59 a month dearer$59 at 5
A freelancer or small agency that wants proposals, contracts, time tracking, projects and invoicing in one client-facing tool, and is happy to hand the books to QuickBooks or Xero through the integration.
$85 a month dearer$85 at 5
A US business that wants the accounting software its accountant already uses, with a path from one user to a 25-seat finance team.
$20 a month dearer$20 at 5
A small US business that wants a real free plan to start on and a ladder it can climb without changing software, up to multi-currency, inventory and a fifteen-user finance team.
$20 a month dearer$20 at 5
A small business that wants double-entry books with bank feeds, sales tax tracking and unlimited users for one flat price, without a per-client or per-invoice meter.
$57.63 a month dearer$57.63 at 5
A VAT-registered UK small business that wants accounting and payroll from one established vendor, with MTD, CIS and an AI assistant on every plan, and an accountant who already knows Sage.
$70 a month dearer$70 at 5
A freelancer or small service business whose job is getting invoices out and paid, with time tracking and projects attached.
$175.56 a month dearer$175.56 at 5
A UK sole trader or one-person limited company that wants free or very cheap bookkeeping software now and a fixed-fee accountant from the same company when the business needs one.
A US service business that already takes card payments through Square and wants invoices, estimates and contracts with no monthly fee, paying only when an invoice is paid.
On this site it is the pick for a free plan you can run on, getting paid first and US sales tax. Which is why nothing cheaper here matches it.
The pairs people actually search for, each one priced at the same four sizes off both vendors' own pages.
Every cheaper option we price gives something up against Square Invoices, which is a point in its favour.
Nothing, at the sizes we price. Square Invoices's Square Free plan covers 5 to 100 clients, so the figure in our table is $0 at all four. Paid plans add features rather than seats.
Not a bookkeeping tool and not cheap for a business that sends many high-value invoices: there are no bank feeds, expenses or books on the page, the fee is a percentage of every payment, and the paid plans are per location at $49 and $149.
We compare 13 of them here, every one priced at the same size off its own pricing page, and the whole list of 14 is on the accounting page.
Should yours be on this list? If you make accounting and invoicing platforms and it is not compared here, ask to be shortlisted. Listings are free and cannot be bought.
Two features were checked against each vendor's own pricing page: a price that does not move with clients and a free plan. Those are the ones written above as does and does not. The other 14 are read out of each vendor's own pricing page, so an absence there means we did not find it listed, not that the product lacks it, and those lines say lists and does not list instead. How all of this gets checked.
This page compares everything to Square Invoices. The shortlist asks 7 questions about what you need the books to do and where you are based, and gives you four picks priced at your own numbers, which is a better question than “what is like the one I already have”.
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