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Useful online tools for freelancers and contractors

Published on Mar 4, 2009 |

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A leading social media site has compiled a list of 85 essential online resources for freelancers, which was so impressive that we had to mention it here.

The article highlights dozens of useful online resources for freelancers (and contractors of course), with a strong emphasis on billing and invoicing tools.

Coupled with the massive growth in online filing (for tax and administration purposes), there's every chance that you could contract for a year without actually needing to retain a single bit of paper (aside from 'reminder' forms from HMRC perhaps)!

Some of the best resources mentioned in the article, which the Contract Eye team have used, include:

Blinksale - online invoicing tool. You can set up recurring invoices, send invoices by email (including in PDF format).

FreeAgentCentral - online invoicing, keep a track of your expenses, even works out your accounts.

Klok - allows you to easily keep track of your time spent on multiple projects.

Elance - one of the leading freelance project boards, predominantly IT-focused. Not so easy to compete with third world programmers though.

You can read the entire resource list at Mashable.

Further Resources

We recently came across an excellent invoice generating tool for contractors. It converts your details into PDF format which you can even email directly to clients.