If you charge clients a fixed amount every month, you already know the problem. Setting up recurring payments is more complicated than it should be. Most tools were built for something else — e-commerce stores, enterprise billing, course creators — and adapted for service businesses as an afterthought. The result is a
Getting a client to say yes is the hard part. Getting paid every month after that should be easy. For a lot of freelancers, it isn't. Monthly billing sounds simple in theory — agree on a price, collect it every 30 days, repeat. But in practice, most freelancers are
If you run a small agency or freelance business, you've probably been through this at least once. A new client says yes. You're ready to get started. Then you spend the next hour inside Stripe trying to figure out how to set up a recurring payment.
