chronoskin

Send the invoice before the kettle boils

Used by 21,000 small studios

chronoskin keeps the hours, the expenses and the invoices of a small studio on one page that everybody can read.

Thirty days free, no card needed. Have an account? Sign in.

“We stopped losing Friday afternoons to the spreadsheet.”, a bookbinder with four employees

Why another invoicing tool?

Because the others were built for accountants. A studio of five does not need a chart of accounts; it needs to know who worked on what, and whether it has been billed.

Nothing to install

chronoskin runs in the browser you already have. Your figures are copied every night and you can take them with you whenever you like.

From the notebook

  1. 14 Oct

    Invoices can now carry two tax rates NEW

    posted by Ines, 6 comments

  2. 9 Oct

    How a pottery of three bills by the kiln load

    posted by Tobias, 14 comments

  3. 2 Oct

    Printing a time sheet that fits on one page

    posted by Ines, 3 comments

  4. 26 Sep

    Planned maintenance on Sunday morning

    posted by Oskar, no comments

Tuesday

2.5 h   Poster proofs

1.0 h   Client call

Write down hours

One line per job, typed in when the job is done.

Invoice 0412

Design, 14 h

Paper stock

Send invoices

Hours and expenses turn into an invoice with one press.

Receipts

Courier, 18.40

Ink, 62.00

Keep receipts

Every expense sits beside the job that caused it.

Due this month

3 invoices open

1 overdue

See who owes what

Open, paid and overdue, on a single list.

What customers told us

Thirty days free for the whole studio.

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  5. Billing by the hour

The tour

Three short pages on how a studio gets from hours to a paid invoice.

How billing by the hour works

Each person writes down what they did and for how long. At the end of the month the hours for one client are gathered into a draft invoice, which you can change before it goes out.

Rates

A rate belongs to a person, a job or a client. The most specific one wins: a rate set on the job replaces the rate of the person doing it.

Before the first invoice

  • Enter the studio's address and tax number.
  • Give every person an hourly rate.
  • Decide how many days a client has to pay.

Invoice numbers follow the pattern you set, for example 2008-0412.

Receipts

Paper, ink and couriers bought for a client are written down as receipts. They wait beside the hours and go on the next invoice at cost, unless you say otherwise.

In the tour

See it with figures in

The page of one client, with its invoices, hours and receipts, is open to look at.

Open the example client

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Plans and sign-up

Thirty days free on every plan. No card needed until the trial ends.

Plan People Clients Each month
Bench 1 up to 5 free
Workshop Most studios pick this up to 6 up to 40 12.00
Studio up to 15 any number 24.00
Works any number any number 49.00

The sign-in link is sent here. Nothing else is.

On every plan

  • Hours, invoices and receipts
  • A copy of your figures every night
  • Invoices in your own layout
  • Take everything with you as a file

Asked before signing up

What happens after thirty days?

We ask which plan you want. Until you answer, nothing is charged and nothing is lost.

Can we change plan later?

Any day, up or down. The price follows from the next month.

Who can read our figures?

The people you invite, and nobody else.

Already a customer

Your studio is where you left it.

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  3. Clients
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  5. Harrow Lane Bakery

Harrow Lane Bakery

Every invoice, hour and receipt booked to this client since March.

Invoice Sent Status Amount
0412 Autumn price list NEW 3 Oct Due soon 1,240.00
0398 Shop window lettering 11 Sep Paid 860.00
0377 Paper bags, second run 20 Aug Overdue 415.50
0351 Summer menu boards 2 Jul Paid 2,075.00

This client

Your free month

Day 18 of 3012 days left

Day 18 of 30

Pick a plan

Reading the list

  • Paid money has arrived
  • Due soon a week left
  • Overdue past its terms
  • NEW not yet opened
  • 18 invoices in all
  • print signage kinds of job
  • Pays on time

Good to know

This client pays within 21 days on average. Reminders go out after 30.

Change the terms

  1. Your studio
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  3. Clients
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  5. Harrow Lane Bakery

Harrow Lane Bakery

Hours written down for this client that have not been billed yet.

No hours written down yet

Hours booked to this client will be listed here, newest first.

Add a receipt instead
  1. 29 Sep

    Autumn price list, proofs and corrections

    Ines Varga, 6.5 h, on invoice 0412

  2. 24 Sep

    Autumn price list, layout

    Ines Varga, 7.5 h, on invoice 0412

  3. 9 Sep

    Shop window lettering, fitting on site

    Tobias Renner, 4 h, on invoice 0398

  4. 4 Sep

    Shop window lettering, drawing

    Tobias Renner, 9 h, on invoice 0398

This client

People on this client

Good to know

This client pays within 21 days on average. Reminders go out after 30.

Change the terms

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  5. Harrow Lane Bakery

Harrow Lane Bakery

What the studio bought on behalf of this client, to be passed on at cost.

Not added yet. The amount has to be written in figures.

Welcome back. Your trial runs for another 12 days.

As it should read on the invoice.

Write the amount in figures, for example 62.00.

or cancel

This client

Latest receipts

Good to know

This client pays within 21 days on average. Reminders go out after 30.

Change the terms