Crest/ invoice follow-up

Free invoices now. Payment follow-up without the stack.

Every day, about 52M sole proprietors and freelancers across the US, UK, and EU get the job done: fix leaking pipes, deliver perfect manicures, photograph weddings, tune bikes and teach algebra. And still, finished work too often turns into unpaid work: UK small businesses are owed £26B in overdue invoices at any time, 56% of US small businesses had unpaid invoices, with $17.5K per business, and more than half of EU companies reported late-payment trouble in 2024.

Crest is testing a narrower belief: many preventable late payments happen because clients forget, lose context, or miss payment details. They finish their day, lose the link, or need one clean nudge. A polite follow-up loop may close those invoices sooner.

Many invoicing tools already send invoices, track status, and issue reminders. The open gap is provider-agnostic invoice follow-up without adopting a finance stack, client portal, payment processor, or transaction-fee model. Crest keeps that loop small: make the invoice, send it, watch what happens, remind politely, and stop when the money lands.

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We are opening the follow-up loop in batches: reminders, payment-state tracking, and a clean close step for sole proprietors and freelancers who want to stop chasing from memory.

Crest stores your email, optional business name, and safe attribution so we can invite the right early users. It does not receive invoice client details, line items, amounts, notes, payment instructions, or PDFs.

Free Invoice Generator

Make a clean invoice, then download the PDF today. Your invoice details stay in this browser; Crest stores only your company name, email, and safe attribution while the payment-follow-up loop is being tested.

Your details
Client
Invoice
Work
Payment note

Crest does not receive the client, items, amount, notes, or PDF. Those fields only power the download in this tab.

Just Crest It

The full loop Crest is building: Create, send and track invoices for free, keep every nudge and payment signal visible, then Crest it when the money is confirmed.

1. Create

Add the client, work, amount, due date, and payment details in minutes.

2. Send

Share an invoice with the provider-agnostic payment details your client needs.

3. Track

Reminders, escalation checks, and payment notifications stay tied to the invoice.

4. Crest it!

Confirm the money arrived and close the invoice yourself.

Invoice #INV-1027

Sent
To Acme Design Ltd.
acme@design.co.uk
Date 12 May 2025
Due 26 May 2025
Item Qty Rate Amount
Brand identity 1 £1,200.00 £1,200.00
Print assets 1 £450.00 £450.00
Total£1,650.00
  1. Invoice sent12 May 2025, 09:41
  2. Tracking activeReminders, escalation checks, payment notifications
  3. Client marked paid26 May 2025, 18:04
  4. CrestedWorker confirmed, 18:22

Free, always

Today, invoice creation is live. The rule for the full loop: Core invoice creation, sending, tracking, and confirmation stay free. Paid extras can come later; getting paid should not start with a paywall.

Send anywhere

Use the payment rails you already trust: bank transfer, PayPal, Stripe, Square, Wise, cash, check, or a custom link. WhatsApp and Telegram stay tap-to-send, so the message lands in the thread clients already use.

Track the chase

Crest keeps due dates, reminders, escalation prompts, and payment notifications tied to the invoice. That is the test: reduce preventable delay without taking over the payment.

Crest to close

When the client says paid, check the money and Crest it. The invoice closes only when you confirm it.

One Job: Get Me Paid

Crest has one job: help sole proprietors and freelancers turn finished work into confirmed payment. Because that is the whole product, every detail has to be sharp: create, send, track, Crest it.

Crest is for

  • Sole proprietors and freelancers paid one job at a time.
  • Owners who still send the payment nudge themselves.
  • People who need provider-agnostic invoice follow-up without a finance stack, client portal, payment processor, or transaction-fee model.
  • Clients who mean to pay but forget, lose context, or miss payment details.

Crest is not

  • Debt collection software.
  • Accounting software.
  • A client portal, CRM, or all-in-one workspace.
  • A payment processor or transaction-fee model.