Done-for-you invoice follow-ups, late-fee math, and the exact words to send — for solo freelancers and one-person shops who hate chasing money.
No account. No card. Just the words that get the invoice paid.
Everything is plain text you paste into Gmail, Word, or Notion. No software, no lock-in.
Answer two questions — how late, how much — and get the polite-but-firm reminder email, from gentle nudge to final notice. Under two minutes, no signup.
Copy-paste follow-up emails for every stage, late-fee math with a ready-to-paste clause, a clean invoice template, and phone & text scripts for when email stops working.
Want the method first? Read the free 6-touch system
The ten-minutes-a-week tracker that keeps every outstanding invoice on a follow-up schedule — so nothing sits unpaid because you forgot to chase it.
Coming next: the Client Onboarding Kit — the agreement, deposit emails, and kickoff checklist that stop late payment before it starts. It's finished and getting its checkout wired; it will appear here first.
Grouped by the problem it solves. Some of these have a page you can open right now; the rest are built and finished but don't have a checkout wired yet — they're listed here so you know they exist. Nothing on this page is legal or financial advice.
The invoice is out. The money isn't in. Start here.
Answer two questions — how late, how much — and it writes the reminder email, gentle nudge through final notice.
Open the generator →The free 6-touch follow-up system explained end to end, with the timing for each message.
Read it →The elements a paid-on-time invoice contains, and why each one shortens the wait.
Read it →Follow-up emails for every stage of a late invoice, late-fee math with a paste-ready clause, an invoice template, and phone/text scripts for when email stops working.
Get the pack →A ten-minutes-a-week tracker that keeps every outstanding invoice on a follow-up schedule.
See the tracker →
A print-ready one-page wall chart of the five-step get-paid system, with a fill-in invoice tracker and the Follow-Up Ladder diagram.
Built and finished — checkout not wired yet.
Wires your invoices to the same-day payment rails (FedNow, RTP, Stripe/PayPal instant, Zelle) in about twenty minutes, plus the client scripts that make it sound like a perk.
Built and finished — checkout not wired yet.
A late-fee clause, follow-up email scripts, an invoice tracker CSV, and a client-communication playbook for money that has gone past due.
Built and finished — checkout not wired yet.
A labelled diagram of a paid-on-time invoice with ten numbered callouts, plus the fill-in template that has all ten built in.
Built and finished — checkout not wired yet.
Sets up AI to draft and chase every invoice on a schedule, turns on the payment setting that gets you paid roughly twice as fast, and gives you a fill-in transparent rate card.
Built and finished — checkout not wired yet.
Six spreadsheet templates with every field and formula written out to paste into a Sheet you own, so your invoice history can't be paywalled later.
Finished and in final review — not released yet.
Deciding the number, and what you promise around it.
A one-page decision chart that tells you which terms to set for each job — deposit, Net 7, retainer, milestones — plus the copy-paste wording.
Built and finished — checkout not wired yet.
Type in your open invoices and monthly costs and it calculates the exact week your cash dips lowest, eight weeks out.
Built and finished — checkout not wired yet.
Maps the three real pricing models with worked math, a market-rate reference band, and a worksheet ending in the exact sentence to say out loud.
Built and finished — checkout not wired yet.
Five email scripts plus a call framework for presenting, defending, and raising your rate once you know the number.
Built and finished — checkout not wired yet.
Holding the job inside the lines you agreed to.
Twelve copy-paste templates that lock scope up front and turn every extra request into a billed change order.
See the pack →The published write-up on holding a project inside its lines.
Published as an article — no page on this site yet.
Screening them in, starting properly, and keeping the good ones.
Vet a new inquiry before you sign — discovery call script, red-flags cheat sheet, intake forms.
See the pack →A decision tree plus eight real red-flag phrases decoded — what each usually means and the exact line to say back — with a printable pre-project checklist.
Built and finished — checkout not wired yet.
The agreement, welcome email sequence, project questionnaire, kickoff checklist, and scope-and-deliverables doc that start a client properly and collect the deposit.
Built and finished — checkout not wired yet.
Seventy send-ready emails across 35 client situations — the blunt version you want to send, the professional one you should, and a firmer variant for repeat offenders.
Built and finished — checkout not wired yet.
Twenty-eight templates for asking for testimonials, referrals, repeat work, and rate increases without sounding salesy.
Built and finished — checkout not wired yet.
Editable templates and example language — not legal advice. Rules vary by place; for high-stakes work, have a licensed pro review your final documents.
Four contract clauses, five ready-to-send emails, and a 12-point checklist for ending a project, firing a client, and getting the last invoice paid.
Finished and in final review — not released yet.
The CA/IL/NYC freelance-protection laws side by side, one contract that satisfies all three, three statute-invoking emails, and an enforcement playbook.
Built and finished — checkout not wired yet.
The whole defensive set in one go.
Client Screening, Scope Lock, and the Get-Paid Pack together — screen them in, hold the line, get paid. Seventeen files across the three packs.
Sales page still in draft — the bundle checkout is not built yet.
Want one of the unlinked items above? They're written, built, and sitting on disk — they just don't have a buy button yet. The three linked tools go live first, and the rest appear on this page as each checkout is wired.
Written like a savvy friend who has chased a hundred invoices — never corporate, never salesy.
Every file is fill-in-ready — real emails, real clauses, real math.
Tell it the amount and the terms; get the exact figure to put in the email.
Plain text and Markdown. Paste it anywhere. Buy once, keep every update.
These are editable templates and example language — not legal or financial advice. Rules vary by place; for high-stakes work, have a licensed pro review your final documents.
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