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Finocket for freelancers & consultants

Invoices, expenses and TDS on your receipts — a deliberately light setup: retainers that post themselves, estimates that convert in a tap, and one clean Hand-to-CA file at year-end.

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Quotes, invoices and getting paid, for freelancers and consultants.

You bill for your time, chase a few invoices, and hand one clean file to your CA at year-end. Finocket’s freelancer setup keeps it that light: invoicing, expenses and TDS on your receipts, without shop-keeping features in your way.

Your first day

Create an invoiceYour first professional GST invoice

Your rhythm

Daily: log payments as they land (voice entry works), snap receipts into expenses. Weekly: send estimates, convert the accepted ones, nudge one overdue invoice on WhatsApp. Monthly: retainers post themselves; if you’re GST-registered, GSTR-1/3B are ready from your invoices. Yearly: the Hand-to-CA file, your 80C picture under Personal finance, and the old-vs-new regime compare before you file.

Working alone means nobody else spots the slow leaks. A scheduled agent can watch for them: Unbilled time, for hours tracked that never reached an invoice; Quotes gone quiet, ranked by what they are worth; Retainer burn while there is still month left to do something about it; Renewals and recurring due before they fire. It reads your own books and leaves you a notification. The chase and the invoice still go out only when you say so.

The screens you’ll live in

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Modules & features

The government lists Finocket fills in for you

HSN and SAC codes, notified unit codes, customs ports, PIN codes and IFSC branches are picked from the government's own lists instead of typed, with importers that show you what a spreadsheet would do before it does it.

What an agent is

Three words cover the whole feature: an agent is who is working, an automation is what it does and when, and activity is what it did and what that cost. An agent watches your books on a schedule and tells you when something needs you, and stays quiet the rest of the time, which is most days.

What automations cost

One credit is one rupee, a typical run is about ₹0.29, so a daily automation is about ₹8.70 a month and a ₹500 pack buys roughly 1,700 runs. Most runs are quiet and cost nothing, because a check that finds nothing never reaches the AI. If you attach your own AI key, automations cost you nothing from us at all.

Use-case playbooks

Run an agency's money on Finocket

Retainers that draft themselves, milestone billing that can't over-bill, hours that never bill twice, and a referral program whose commission statements reconcile to the ledger.

Set up Finocket for a clinic, travel agency or agency

Clients and patients first, then the person to reach at each, then invoices already raised, then recurring billing on autopilot - the onboarding order for a services business, never a stock count.

Run a freelance practice on Finocket

An estimate the client accepts online, hours that turn into invoice lines, the TDS a client withheld recorded on the receipt, USD invoices under LUT, and a read-only login for your CA.

The two-minute daily money habit

Record what landed, snap what you spent, glance at the dashboard — two minutes a day keeps the books from ever falling behind.

Watching for drift

The number worth telling you about is almost always a change against your own normal, not a fixed figure. ₹50,000 of packaging spend is a quiet month for one business and an emergency for another, so a fixed alert either never fires or fires until you mute it. Set a watch on the four drifts that are invisible in one month and obvious across three.

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Get started with Finocket

Sign up, tell Finocket who you are, finish the short onboarding wizard, add your first client and send your first GST invoice - in under ten minutes.

Install Finocket as a real app

Add Finocket to your home screen on Android, iPhone or desktop so it launches like any other app. It opens instantly and queues the entries you record with no signal.

Try Finocket with sample data

Seed a realistic sample business with one tap, explore every screen with believable numbers, then clear it all safely. Your real entries are never touched.