Tax and invoices for first-timers: the boring setup that prevents pain

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0:00–0:40: Cold-open on a caption-backed beat from the lead reference (FmdpQzURvDQ@0:00): “In this video, I interviewed Abie Florendo. And just a quick background, she is part of my team. She is handling clients under BossedUp PH.” Promise a usable faceless outline for “Tax and invoices for first-timers: the boring setup that prevents pain” with timed facts — original narration only. FmdpQzURvDQ@0:00 QTeokgrR--o@0:00

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FmdpQzURvDQ 0:00–1:03 — In this video, I interviewed Abie Florendo. And just a quick background, she is part of my team. She is handling clients under BossedUp PH.
FmdpQzURvDQ 11:21–12:22 — I cannot access it without VPN because it is an American site.
FmdpQzURvDQ 12:23–13:34 — How old are your eldest and your youngest?" "My eldest child is 8 years old and my youngest child is 2 years old only." "So, the two-year-old child really needs attention." "Yes, B…
FmdpQzURvDQ 15:49–16:54 — The rate for beginners, for me, is $3 to $4 per hour. Then, if you become an expert, if you are already familiar with it, it is better to offer a package rate.
FmdpQzURvDQ 5:37–6:41 — Do you work everyday, bi-weekly, at a certain time only, or what?
FmdpQzURvDQ 6:45–7:51 — What I have learned from those clients, especially the one you gave to me who is very challenging, I really learned from him.
QTeokgrR--o 0:00–1:17 — okay so you're probably here watching this video either because you've just landed your first ever freelance client and now you're like i need to get a contract and voice together …
QTeokgrR--o 11:06–12:22 — next up is the full name of the person paying the invoice and their business address and contact information third an invoice number so ideally start with like one and go sequentia…
QTeokgrR--o 12:26–13:43 — for that month and then in the footer i normally put my payment details so like bank information personally i use wise to accept payment and so i'll include my wise email and any o…
QTeokgrR--o 13:47–15:04 — an invoice input the client's details their email their company address and then they'll just send it to them and they can just pay it via that invoice if you're using striper payp…

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I cannot access it without VPN because it is an American site. Also for the bank accounts, it is for added protection for the clients as well." "Yeah, by the way, for these bookkeeping software and tools, do the clients pay for the subscription or not?" "The clients." "Is it required to use the premium version or is it okay if not?" "It's better to use the premium version. FmdpQzURvDQ@11:21
How old are your eldest and your youngest?" "My eldest child is 8 years old and my youngest child is 2 years old only." "So, the two-year-old child really needs attention." "Yes, Boss. He is so clingy." "Do you think newbie freelancers can become a bookkeeper even if they have zero knowledge in bookkeeping?" "For me, yes. FmdpQzURvDQ@12:23
okay so you're probably here watching this video either because you've just landed your first ever freelance client and now you're like i need to get a contract and voice together asap so first of all if that's you congrats a little a circle of applause or you're here because you're a fellow planner like me and want to be prepared if that's the case congrats to you too for your forward thinking so one of my favorite parts of freelancing is definitely sending contracts and invoices i used to be very intimidated by it i thought it was going to be way more overwhelming and complicated than it actually is and once you kind of figure out the basics and you've done it kind of once or twice it really really is a fun part of the process because it means that a you have a client and b they're going to pay you money and that's what it's all about so in this video let's talk about how to send contracts invoices as a freelancer what you have to include on them i'll like give you a little checklist plus i'll walk through some free tools to help you with drafting your first contract or invoice hey my name is dia freelancer digital business manager most recently an entrepreneur and as always you can find sections on the play bar below if you want to skip to a certain part of the video your time is precious so take what you need and if you want to watch this on 2x i will not be offended in the least okay let's dive into the video so i'm gonna be totally honest here i wasn't always so good with sending contracts and all QTeokgrR--o@0:00
next up is the full name of the person paying the invoice and their business address and contact information third an invoice number so ideally start with like one and go sequentially like for example you could have the first invoice be like one zeros or one and the next one is one zero zero two one zero three so on and so forth so you can kind of keep track of it it's also good to have the word invoice actually on there as a header next up is the issue date of your invoice itself so when did you actually send it to the client um that's just kind of something for your records to know that when it went out and then separately you should have a due date of when the invoice is due personally for me i just normally do like seven days from the issue day um just keep track of the due date because if the due date passes that's when you'll want to begin following up and potentially like implementing the late fee and everything next up very important a description of what was purchased so the amount and the total and also don't forget about the currency so really break down in detail if there are multiple aspects to the deliverables like if you have multiple deliverables list them all out you know how much one costs and then how much of it they purchase and then the total for each item if it's a retainer you can just kind of describe what you do in that retainer on a monthly basis if it's hourly just make sure you put like your hourly amount how many hours it was the total that kind of stuff very very important try to be as clear as possible it's also good for your records to remember what you did exactly QTeokgrR--o@11:06
for that month and then in the footer i normally put my payment details so like bank information personally i use wise to accept payment and so i'll include my wise email and any other bank info that they need you can also you know include like hyperlink and invoice link in the footer of your invoice as well like where they should go to pay it essentially like for example striper paypal and if applicable also any tax info if you have to charge tax of some kind should be included on the invoice as well like for example in the u we have that depending on where your clients are based and what kind of business they are so that i would work into um after the description of services i would put the vat the amount i would calculate that and then i would add up the total of the service cost and the fat and that would be the total amount that makes sense okay so let's put all that together and go on to some tools that can help you send and make invoices for free as well so invoices there are four ways i'm going to talk about the first way is you can just send something via stripe or paypal like that's if you're like invoicing with striper paypal the easiest thing is you can just send invoices via striper paypal directly to their email address and not fuss with any other tools or softwares um just sign up for a free paypal or freestripe account create QTeokgrR--o@12:26
an invoice input the client's details their email their company address and then they'll just send it to them and they can just pay it via that invoice if you're using striper paypal they're not my favorite payment processors to use i prefer wise myself i have a video on that i'll link it in the top right corner if you want to go ahead and watch that so my second method is kind of like a manual plus google docsish method so what you'll do is you want to find a free invoice template and let me just tell you there are tons out there i'll also link the ones from wise just because they were the first ones that showed up on google when i looked but you can see here you can download invoice templates from them you don't even have to put in your email address they'll take you like straight to the invoice so these are all google docs ones which is really easy because then you can just have it all in your google drive and you can make duplicates for every single new client so just pick the one that you think looks the nicest so i'm like this one i kind of like so you just press it and then i'll take you to the google doc directly and you can then make a copy so then just like fill in the information put in the client address put in your address put in the invoice number the invoice date um put in the things that you did for this client put in the total if there's a tax rate your bank account invoice details anything they need terms all of that good stuff you can also delete this footer if you don't want it there and then what QTeokgrR--o@13:47
little bit of research i have done that before but generally i would recommend at least 50 up front if you're able to do that and you can just let your client know that that is standard procedure for you and then you're sure that you've at least gotten half of your payment up front before you even begin work make sure to also include any late fees that you want to implement so this is something i highly recommend doing it's some it's one of those things that can incentivize a client who maybe is always late on paying invoices or really dragging their feet all the time it kind of incentivizes them to pay your invoice on time which is what they should be doing anyway so if you have late fees definitely build that in if there's a deposit of some kind to secure their slot or their space for their project or their work with you then you can include that as well and then mention like oh if you pay a 500 deposit that will be taken off your first month retainer or something like that five a notice period cancellation terms depends kind of on the structure of your agreement with this person so for example if it's an ongoing retainer then you'll probably have a notice period like for example um yeah both parties can cancel if they just let each other know within you know seven days before or 14 days before or something like that if it is a one-time project you might have something called a cancellation fee which is if they want to cancel it before it's done how much will that cost them how much of the money will you keep essentially six ownership of rights of your work so who owns what if you're QTeokgrR--o@4:07
creating things are those free for the client to keep forever is that still your work when does the right transfer over is it upon completion of the project and the payment of the final invoice and finally very important signatures and dates of when everything has been signed off on by you and the client so those are the key essentials there may be more sections depending on the type of work you might have like non-disclosure clauses non-compete clauses indemnity clause i don't know if that's how you pronounce it so start with the checklist i just mentioned when you're checking over a contract because those are really the essentials but keep in mind you may have to adjust depending on what your client would also like to include so here are two free ways to create and send contracts and i'm going to like pop onto miniday and actually walk you through them all right so to get a free contract template there are lots online that you can find i will link a few below that have free templates but important to remember is that this does not constitute legal advice you know obviously if you want something that's like 100 legally certified correct to be like completely foolproof you should hire a lawyer um i've personally just always used contract templates and just made sure that i read through them and i carefully reviewed them and all of that stuff so you know just keep in mind what your preference is and then do whatever is right for you so for example wise here has lots of free QTeokgrR--o@5:31

Beat-by-beat structure

Hook (0:00–0:40): In this video, I interviewed Abie Florendo. And just a quick background, she is part of my team. She is handling clients under BossedUp PH. (FmdpQzURvDQ@0:00).
Beat 1: I cannot access it without VPN because it is an American site. Also for the bank accounts, it is for added protection for the clients as well." "Yeah, by the way, for these bookkeeping software and to… (FmdpQzURvDQ@11:21).
Beat 2: How old are your eldest and your youngest?" "My eldest child is 8 years old and my youngest child is 2 years old only." "So, the two-year-old child really needs attention." "Yes, Boss. He is so clingy… (FmdpQzURvDQ@12:23).
Beat 3: okay so you're probably here watching this video either because you've just landed your first ever freelance client and now you're like i need to get a contract and voice together asap so first of all… (QTeokgrR--o@0:00).
Beat 4: next up is the full name of the person paying the invoice and their business address and contact information third an invoice number so ideally start with like one and go sequentially like for example… (QTeokgrR--o@11:06).
Beat 5: for that month and then in the footer i normally put my payment details so like bank information personally i use wise to accept payment and so i'll include my wise email and any other bank info that … (QTeokgrR--o@12:26).
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After the cold-open, title card the spine of “Tax and invoices for first-timers: the boring setup that prevents pain” so viewers know the promise.
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