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Dubsado Alternative: Time Tracking & Invoicing Without the CRM Overhead
Dubsado is a serious tool for managing the full client lifecycle, proposals, contracts, onboarding workflows, invoicing. If that whole process is central to how your business runs, it's worth the $35 a month. But a lot of freelancers and small service businesses don't need contracts built into their billing software. They need to track their time, log expenses, and send invoices without spending weeks configuring a platform before they can send their first invoice. Track and Invoice is set up in minutes, has no monthly fee, and doesn't require you to adopt a CRM to use it.
Dubsado vs. Track and Invoice
Track and Invoice Starter | Dubsado Starter | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly subscription fee | $0 | $35 |
| Time tracking | ||
| Invoicing | ||
| Expense tracking | ||
| Receipt attachments | ||
| Quotes & estimates | ||
| Automated workflows | Premier only | |
| Client portal | ||
| Users included | Unlimited | 3 included; 4-10 for +$25/mo |
| Setup complexity | Low, start in minutes | High, weeks to configure |
Who should choose Track and Invoice
If billing is your main concern, tracking hours against projects, logging expenses to pass on to clients, and sending invoices, Track and Invoice covers that without any of the surrounding complexity. It works well for small teams and solopreneurs who bill for both services and goods, and you can start using it immediately without a trial clock running out. There's no monthly fee on the Starter plan, so you're not paying for features you don't use.
Who should choose Dubsado
Dubsado makes the most sense if proposals, contracts, and client onboarding are a regular, repeatable part of how you work. Photographers, event planners, and designers who book new clients through a proposal process will get genuine value from having all of that in one place. It does take time to configure properly, most people report spending several weeks getting it fully set up, but once it's running, the automation saves real time on repetitive client communication.
Why Track and Invoice is different
Dubsado thinks of itself as a client management system. It's built around the journey from first inquiry to signed contract. Track and Invoice picks up from there: tracking the actual work, recording costs, and getting paid. They're solving different problems.
A lot of small business owners use both kinds of tools: one for client onboarding, another for billing. If you already have the client side handled and you're looking for something focused on the billing side, Track and Invoice does that without a subscription fee.
Built for the way you work
Running a small business means you feel every dollar, every subscription, every "upgrade to unlock this" moment, every tool that costs more than it should for what it actually does. We felt all of it. Before building Track and Invoice, we were evaluating the same software you're looking at right now, and kept running into the same problem: either the price was hard to justify, or the product was too generic to actually fit the way we worked.
So we built our own. Not to disrupt anything, just to have something functional, honest, and priced like it was made for people who watch what they spend. It turned out other small business owners, freelancers, and solopreneurs were looking for the same thing, so we made it available to them too.
Track and Invoice is straightforward by design. It does time tracking, expense tracking, and invoicing well, without burying those features behind a learning curve or a paywall. If that's what you need, we think you'll feel right at home.
Free Starter plan. Built for service businesses.
No credit card required.