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Spyre Studios
Montreal, Canada
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Montreal, Canada
Creative
About
Spyre Studios is the design and inspirational blog of Canadian web-designer Jon Phillips, which focusses on typography, design trends, web-development, CSS/HTML, jQuery, WordPress and minimalism. This blog is a fast growing resource for designers, artists, developers and bloggers alike, and the audience is very internet savvy. The SpyreStudios blog is updated many times a week and also features many guest authors. The Spyre Studios site also acts as Jon's portfolio.
What made you realize you wanted to improve your invoicing process?
To be honest, invoicing wasn't something I particularly enjoyed doing. To me it used to fall into the 'boring tasks' category. I'm sure I'm not alone in this. Once I realized I was spending some valuable time (time that could be spent designing or writing), creating invoices I knew I had to find a better solution.
Was there an aspect of your previous invoicing process that you found daunting?
When I started out as a freelance designer, I would create invoices manually and export them as PDFs then send them to my clients. I then tried some web-based services and tools, and even though they were great, I like to keep my data on my own computer. I'm a control freak like that.
What feature(s) in Billings drew you in initially?
I think one of the things that really caught my attention was the many different invoice designs and templates. Being a designer myself, it's great to be able to send beautiful invoices to my clients instead of something that looks very generic. That, combined with the price of Billings 3 and the iPhone/iPod app made it an easy choice.
How did Billings and/or Billings Touch improve your workflow and increase productivity?
Of course not having to create invoices manually improved my productivity quite a lot. Less time wasted. Now I simply log everything in Billings and when I'm done, I open it up, select my invoice template and send the invoice to the client.
Describe how Billings helped you to earn more revenue with your business.
When you spend a lot of time working on projects for clients, you need something that will make the invoicing process easy. Now, since I don't have to spend time creating invoices for clients, I can use that time to focus on other things and to some extent, take on more work. So, at the end of the day, Billings indirectly helps me earn more.
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