# I turned my email inbox into an invoicing tool > Source: > Published: 2026-07-27 16:41:49+00:00 Special delivery for your cash flow # Forward it. We’ll *deliver* the invoice. Forward a client email. Get back a payable invoice. In about a minute. The fastest way to make an invoice is to forward the client's email to a service that extracts the line items and sends back a branded, payable invoice — no templates, no dashboard, no setup. 1. Forward a client email 2. We process the details 3. You get a payable invoice Email to invoice ## This is the entire workflow. Hey! Let’s go ahead with what we discussed — the homepage redesign (**$1,800**) plus the two extra landing pages at **$300 each**. Can you invoice us? Net-30 works. — forwarded to you-x7f2@mailtoinvoice.com Acme Studio — Website refresh | Homepage redesign | $1,800.00 | | Landing pages × 2 | $600.00 | | TOTAL | $2,400.00 | What you get ## Nine things, and nothing else. Forward Forward any client email — that is the entire input. No forms, no templates. Process AI reads the thread and pulls out client, line items, rates, tax, and terms. Invoice A numbered, branded PDF plus a shareable web invoice, generated for you. Paid Your payment details on every invoice — bank, PayPal, whatever you accept. Secure We never touch your money. Clients pay you directly, however you already get paid. Fast Forward to finished invoice in about a minute, from any mail client. Private You review every draft. Nothing reaches your client without your say-so. Support Reply in plain English — “make it $2,600 and net-15” — and it regenerates. Delivered On Pro: see the moment your client opens the invoice, and chase with auto-reminders. What we deliberately left out ## No dashboard. No templates. No expense tracking. No client portal. Every invoicing suite started simple and grew a bookkeeping department. MailToInvoice is the opposite bet: the email you already have *is* the input, and your inbox *is* the interface. The web app exists only for your logo, your history, and your billing — you may never open it after day one. The finished article ## Ten invoice designs. You never fill one in. You forward the email — we typeset it. Choose the look once and every invoice after that arrives in it, as a PDF and as a web page your client can pay from. Classic, Simple and Postal come with the free plan — the airmail one included. Minimal, Bold, Editorial, Ledger, Marque, Docket and Remittance come with Pro, alongside your logo and your brand color. Pricing ## One paid tier. That’s the whole table. Invoicing suites charge $17–38/month for a bookkeeping department you didn’t ask for. This should cost less than the coffee you drink while doing it. In every plan, including free - AI extraction from forwarded emails - Branded PDF plus a shareable web invoice - Your payment details on every invoice — bank transfer, PayPal, anything you accept - Edit any invoice by replying in plain English - Saved clients, captured automatically - CSV export of everything, any time Free $0 forever · no card required **3 open invoices at a time**, plus everything above. Settle one and the slot comes back. - Unlimited invoices - Premium invoice templates - Your logo on invoices - Your brand color - No MailToInvoice footer - Automatic payment reminders - Saved services - Custom forwarding address - Branded invoice links - Client-open tracking [Start free](/app) Pro $12/ month or $99/year — two months free **Unlimited invoices**, everything above, and: - Unlimited invoicesNo cap on how many are open at once. - Premium invoice templatesEvery design in the picker, not just the free three. - Your logo on invoicesReplaces the business name in the letterhead. - Your brand colorCarries through the PDF and the web invoice. - No MailToInvoice footerYour invoices, unbranded by us. - Automatic payment remindersPolite nudges at +7 and +14 days overdue. - Saved servicesA rate card you drop onto invoices — and rebill a retainer in one click. - Custom forwarding addressyourname@mailtoinvoice.com instead of a random one. - Branded invoice linksyourname.mailtoinvoice.com/i/… on every invoice you send. - Client-open trackingSee the moment a client opens an invoice, with a full timeline. [Start free, upgrade any time](/app) Cancel whenever — no contract, no sales call. Client payments always go straight to your own Stripe account. We never hold your money. You review everything first Every invoice comes to you as a draft. Nothing is ever sent to your client without your explicit say-so. Your data stays yours Export every invoice to CSV anytime, and delete your account — and its data — whenever you want. Stripe-secured payments Payments run entirely on Stripe, deposited to your own Stripe account. We never see or hold card numbers or funds. Our promise ## Invoicing shouldn’t slow you down. We built MailToInvoice for the way you already work. No dashboards to learn, no templates to fill, no busywork. Just forward the email, and get back to what you were actually hired to do. Private. Simple. Fast. Made for professionals.