Nobody should feel awkward asking to be paid for work they already did.
The same sentence kept coming up from people who bill by the hour: I hate chasing people for money.
They finish the work, send a text, wait, send another text, and feel rude doing it. The client is not trying to avoid paying. They are busy, and a text message is easy to lose and impossible to file.
The fix is not a better reminder. It is a document. A numbered invoice with dates, hours and a total does the asking for you, and it does not sound like nagging.
Before an app, working out what you are owed means scrolling back through weeks of messages, adding up hours in your head, and hoping you have not missed a day.
Now the time is recorded as it happens, the amount is already worked out, and the invoice comes out of it without anything being retyped. Record the payment when it arrives and the balance looks after itself.
Small, real, and repeated every single week. That is the whole job.
Most time tracking software is either surveillance, with screenshots and idle monitoring and location, or it is built for a team and priced per seat, per month, forever.
If you are one person billing for your own hours, both of those are the wrong shape. You do not need watching, and you should not pay for seats you will never fill.
This is built for one person, and it is free to use.
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