For UK freelance creatives
Invoicing for freelance designers, writers and makers
Describe the project out loud and get a professional invoice for day rates, fixed fees or hours, without breaking your flow.
What you say
“Invoice the Jenkins team for the launch copy: two days at £350 a day, plus one extra round of revisions at a fixed £120.”
What Honest Invoices does in 30 seconds
- · Extracts time, materials and costs from the words you used
- · Builds a compliant UK invoice with sequential numbering, VAT (if registered), and your payment terms
- · Stores the digital record for MTD ITSA quarterly submission
- · Emails the PDF to your client when you tap send
£15/month, locked · 14-day free trial · no card required
The reality
The pain you actually have.
Generic accounting software is built for accountants. This is built for a freelance creative who finishes a job at 5pm covered in dust and just wants to get paid.
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You'd rather be making the thing than billing for it, so invoices wait until the end of the month, or longer.
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Day rates, fixed fees, extra revisions, hourly add-ons. Every project is priced differently, and templates make you fit it into boxes.
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Clients on long payment terms who still pay late, just when you've got bills of your own.
What it does
Three things. Built for mobile service work.
No bloat, no “multi-entity reporting”.
Any pricing, one invoice
Mix day rates, fixed fees and hourly work on the same invoice, just by saying it.
The law on your side
When you invoice a business, you’re entitled to statutory interest and compensation on late payment. Honest Invoices calculates it and adds it to your reminder.
Invoices that look like your work
Add your logo and details once, and every invoice goes out looking professional.
From the founder
Built end-to-end against HMRC’s APIs.
Honest Invoices is built and run by Vix Hawley. The MTD ITSA integration was built by hand — OAuth, fraud-prevention headers, the full Self-Employment Business and BSAS APIs. It took months. The full HMRC sandbox journey passes 16 out of 16 steps with proof on file.
Most accounting platforms are built for accountants. This one is built for freelance creatives who don’t want to spend their evenings doing admin. £15/month. Locked. No price hikes, ever.
FAQ
FAQ for freelance creatives.
Does money from selling prints or products count towards MTD?
Yes. All your self-employment turnover counts towards the thresholds, not just client work.
Will Making Tax Digital apply to me?
It depends on your turnover, meaning what you invoice before expenses, not your profit. It applies from April 2027 if that’s over £30,000, which is roughly £2,500 a month, and from April 2028 if it’s over £20,000. Check yours with the MTD wave calculator.
I also have a part-time job. Does my salary count?
No. PAYE wages don’t count towards the MTD thresholds. Only self-employment and property income do.
Can I cancel if it's not for me?
Yes, with one click from Settings. There’s no contract and no exit fee.
Talk to a person
Not a chatbot.
If you’ve got a question about whether Honest Invoices fits your trade — call, text, or email. You’ll reach the founder, not a queue.
Ready to stop typing invoices?
14 days free. No card required. £15/month after that — locked, forever.