Freelancer payments
Freelance invoices,
payment links, and retainers in one place.
Send an invoice when the client needs a bill. Send a payment link when you want money to move fast. Put retainers on autopilot when the work repeats. Flint gives freelancers one clean billing workflow instead of three separate tools.
Sound familiar?
The freelancer payment experience
You finished the project two weeks ago and you're still waiting to get paid.
You're paying for separate invoicing software just to send a handful of client bills each month.
You sent a Venmo request for a $3,000 project and felt weird about it.
You manually re-send the same retainer invoice on the first of every month.
Tax season arrives and your payments are scattered across Venmo, Zelle, PayPal, and bank transfers.
Flint replaces all of that with one cleaner client-payment workflow.
Built for freelancers
How freelancers use Flint
Whether you're billing per milestone, collecting a monthly retainer, or requesting a deposit before starting work, Flint gives you the right surface for the moment: invoice, payment link, or recurring billing.
Project milestone billing
Break a $5,000 project into deliverables - "Discovery & Strategy - $1,500", "Design Mockups - $2,000", "Final Delivery - $1,500". Send an invoice when the client needs formal approval, or a payment link when you want the milestone paid quickly.
Monthly retainers on autopilot
Set up a subscription for retainer clients who should pay automatically each month. If a client still wants manual review, send invoices from the same payment stack instead of juggling separate tools.
Deposits before starting work
Collect a 50% deposit before you touch the project. Create a payment link in seconds, send it with your proposal, and don't start until the money lands. The smart freelancer move.
Quick payments for small tasks
A client needs a quick logo tweak or a one-off consultation. Instead of a Venmo request, send a branded payment link with an itemized description. Professional, fast, and recorded automatically.
Getting started
How it works
Go from sign-up to getting paid in under two minutes. No onboarding calls, no approval process, and no need to stitch together separate invoicing and payment apps.
Create your payment link
Add your services as line items with descriptions and prices - "Website Redesign - $2,000", "Monthly Hosting - $50/mo". Takes less than a minute.
Send it to your client
Copy the link and send it however you communicate - email, Slack, iMessage, or paste it into your proposal. No client account required.
Get paid
Your client clicks the link, reviews the line items, and pays. Funds hit your bank account and a receipt is sent automatically.
Why Flint
Why freelancers switch to Flint
You became a freelancer to do great work, not to wrestle with disconnected billing software. Flint keeps invoices, payment links, and recurring client billing simple so you can focus on your craft.
No monthly fees - ever
You only pay when you get paid - a small percentage per transaction. No subscriptions, no minimums, no contracts. Slow month? You pay nothing. That matters when client work is uneven.
Invoice or link, depending on the client
Some clients want a formal invoice in their inbox. Others just want to tap and pay. Flint lets you choose the right collection surface without moving the client into a different system.
Professional billing without the extra software stack
Clients get an itemized invoice or a clean hosted payment page with your services, descriptions, and prices. It feels like a real business workflow, not a patchwork of Venmo requests and PDFs.
Every payment in one place
Stop piecing together income from Venmo, Zelle, PayPal, and bank transfers. Every client payment goes through Flint - one dashboard, one record, one place to look at tax time.
Automatic receipts and records
Your clients receive professional receipt emails after every payment. You get a clean transaction history. No manual confirmations, no spreadsheets, no digging through email.
Recurring billing built in
Put retainers, monthly maintenance, and ongoing services on autopilot. Set up a subscription once and your client is billed automatically. When a client needs manual approval instead, fall back to invoices without switching platforms.
Compare
Flint vs. what you're doing now
You do need invoices sometimes. You just do not need a bloated invoicing stack to send them.
Flexible by design
Works with how you work
Send invoices or payment links by email, Slack, text, or from your proposal flow. No client login required. Pick the format that matches how the client wants to pay.
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