You opened your own catering business because you love to cook. You went into the bakery business to sell pastries and cakes. You didn’t open your own landscaping company because you love paperwork. Yet to be a prosperous small business owner, you can’t ignore the financial side of your business, and this means that you have to make certain you properly invoice your clients. Forgetting to invoice your customers can leave you with a significant cash flow problem, one which, if left unchecked, could put you out of business.

Invoicing help online

Fortunately, there are plenty of online invoicing services designed to make life easier for the small business owner. By using one of these services, you can quickly — and depending on your clients, automatically — send out your invoices each month. It’s one less task for you to handle. Below is a quick look at some of the better online invoicing services:

A free but powerful invoicing service

Sometimes the word “free” is synonymous with “not very good.” Fortunately, that is not the case with the free system, BillingBoss. Suitable for most small businesses that want to automatically invoice customers on a monthly basis and occasional once-off invoicing, BillingBoss packs a big punch without cost!

A power tool

AcceptPay isn’t free. It costs $30 a month, but it’s a powerful program. Offered by American Express, AcceptPay works with QuickBooks, will accept online payments, and of course, gives you a wide range of options when it comes to sending out invoices and collecting payments. The $30 investment is a small price to pay for such a impressive online invoicing tool.

Invoicing for the tech-savvy

If you need more control over your online invoicing, you might consider downloading BambooInvoice. This is another free service. What sets it apart, though, is that small business owners host it on their own servers, not in the cloud. Because it’s an open source program, tech-savvy entrepreneurs can personalize it to fit their business’s specific needs.

We haven’t even mentioned the best part yet. These three services are only a drop in the very full bucket of available online invoicing services. Many are free or incredibly inexpensive, but can greatly boost your workflow and ease the pain of that aggravating stack of paperwork.