Nobody gets into the trades to do paperwork. You do the work, you do it right, and the write-up waits until tonight. Now it's 9 PM and you're beat. Was it 2.5 hours or 3? Were the parts $58 or $68? You can't quite remember.
And the invoice still has to be right. A late one gets paid late. A messy one gets questions. A sloppy one makes you look small. That's not because you're bad at your job. It's because paperwork is a pain, so you put it off.
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"I used to send invoices the next morning. Now I send them before I hit the highway. Customers actually pay the same day."
"Forgot to invoice a $320 job for four days once. That's the kind of thing that eats your margin. Haven't had that problem since."
"My invoices used to look like a text message. Now they look like I run a real business. Customers stopped asking questions about the bill."