Desk of One

Calculator · every rate read from the vendor's own US page

What does getting paid cost?

Seventeen routes, priced against each other at your invoice size. Move the sliders and watch one of them stop growing.

$1,000
4
Where the client is
Cheapest

 

 a year

 

  The spread
Dearest

 

 a year

 

Past $625, the bank transfer stops charging you more. Stripe caps it at $5 however large the invoice gets. Every card route on this page keeps climbing forever. That single line is most of what this site has found.

A year at a time

 

The subscription on top

Processing is half the bill. These send the invoice — and on the cheapest routes above, the subscription is the larger number.

Invoicing toolFree planCheapest paidThe catch
Zoho InvoiceYes — 0% of paymentsAnnual invoice cap, number unpublished
PayPal InvoicingYes — no monthly feeIts own button costs 0.5% more than a card
Invoice NinjaYes — 5 clients$140/yrIts name on your invoice; reminders are paid
WaveYes — with bookkeeping$190/yr2.9% + 60¢ on cards; US/Canada only
Square InvoicesYes — unlimited$588/yr3.3% + 30¢ online — highest of the four
Stripe InvoicingNo — 0.4% per invoiceStacks on 2.9% + 30¢
FreshBooksNo — 30-day trial$276/yrMetered on clients; your 6th costs $240/yr

Where the numbers came from

Every figure here was read by hand from the vendor's own United States pricing page in August 2026, and each one reproduces a figure published in one of these:

Twenty routes, priced Wise vs Payoneer vs cards Everything we have costed Best invoicing software

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