Hey Sumo-lings 👋

Quick update on what's shipped since the last post — your feedback has been doing the heavy lifting.

(For more info on everything that follows, feel free to check out this Loom video or reference our changelog as well.)

SMTP is live 📬

Far and away the most-requested feature. Around 80–90 of you asked for it, and as of this week you can plug any SMTP server straight in — Postmark, SendGrid, Mailgun, or your own mail server — and send invoices and reminders through it. More control over deliverability, your domain front and centre, no middleman. You'll find it in your workspace email settings.

Recurring invoices stop breaking themselves

Changing an invoice status used to quietly mess with the recurring schedule. Marking something Paid could derail a whole series. That's fixed — status changes and recurring changes are now separate decisions, and you'll get a prompt before anything's touched. Reminder text and frequency are configurable now too, and when a series wraps up, you get an in-app notification and an email so you don't find out from your client.

The emails are fully yours

No HoneyBill mention, no HoneyBill footer, nothing. Client emails go out with your branding, your domain, your name. It should have been this way from day one.

A few more things shipped

• Invoices speak your client's language — set French, German, Spanish, whatever, and the labels switch with it
• Default currency and language auto-fill from your settings so you stop picking them every time
• Revolut is a proper pay button now, not plain text
• CSV downloads for invoice and time-entry analytics
• Generate invoices straight from selected time entries — no more re-typing
• Bulk import customers if you're migrating in

What's next

Proposals are up next, then deeper reporting. The vision is still the same — HoneyBill as the single platform freelancers use to run their whole client business.

Keep the feedback coming. Hit reply on any email or drop into our roadmap. We read everything.

Thanks for being here! 🙏

-John

Hey Sumo-lings 👋

I'm John, founder of HoneyBill. After 15+ years of freelancing, I got tired of the same loop. Send an invoice. Wait weeks. Hear "sorry, it landed in spam." Chase.

I tried Xero, Stripe Invoicing, Bonsai, FreshBooks, GPT. Each one was either overkill, generic, or close but not quite it. So I built the thing I actually needed.

HoneyBill sends branded invoices from your own Gmail or Outlook, with a hosted checkout that lets clients pay in two clicks. No more copy-pasted bank details. You see the moment they open, click, and pay. And there are zero platform fees on top of payment processing.

It does more than invoicing too. Track time on a project and push billable hours straight into an invoice. Manage projects with files, contracts, and tasks attached to the right client. Bill in any currency. All in one tool.

The vision is for HoneyBill to become the single platform freelancers use to run their whole client business, with proposals and reporting coming next.

We're a small team building this in the open, and your feedback shapes where we go next. Hit reply on any email or drop into our roadmap. We read everything.

Thanks for being here!