Invoicing, deposits and getting paid
Take the deposit now. Let them pay the rest however they like.
Every planChasing money is the least enjoyable part of the job and the part most people do worst. Slate takes the invoice off your plate and makes the client's side of it genuinely easy, which is the only reliable way to get paid sooner.
Who it is for: Anyone invoicing clients directly, especially if you take deposits or let people pay in stages.
The invoice builds itself from the job
Hours, crew, services, products, discounts and cancellations are already recorded against the shoot, so the invoice is assembled rather than typed. Cancelled work bills zero automatically rather than needing to be remembered.
Send it with your branding on it
Your logo, your business details, your payment terms. The client gets an email with a link to a page they can read and pay from — no PDF attachment to lose.
They pay by card, or in installments
Payments run through your own Stripe account, so the money lands in your bank, not ours. A client can pay in full, pay just the deposit, or pay any amount they like whenever they like until the balance is clear. They see a running total of what they have already paid and when, so nobody has to ask.
See who still owes you
One screen lists every outstanding payment and how overdue it is. Reminders go out on their own, so an unpaid balance does not depend on you remembering to look.
Free templates for this
Not ready for the app? These do a piece of it by hand, free and with no signup.
Also included
- Payments taken by cheque or bank transfer recorded against the invoice by hand
- Contractor invoices your crew submit themselves, so you are not transcribing them
- Staff payments tracked against what each person is owed
- 1099 summaries at year end with W-9 details stored alongside
- Every money figure in one format, to the cent, everywhere it appears
Money through your own Stripe account, invoices that build themselves, and a client who can pay the way that suits them. That is most of the chasing gone.
14-day trial on paid plans. No credit card.