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The 12-minute invoice fix (and why you're still doing it by hand)
Issue 47 · 5 min read
Hey,
Quick one this week. I asked forty readers how they send invoices. Thirty-one still copy client details into a document by hand, every single time.
“The invoice took longer to write than the job took to finish.”
Here's the fix, start to end:
Full template, with the exact Zap steps, is below. Took me twelve minutes to set up on a real account.
Talk Tuesday,
Jordan
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