Creating invoices has been a part of my life from the age of 15. As a professional internationally known rollerblader, whether in South Africa, Australia, Germany, or the U.S., I hand-wrote, faxed or mailed, monthly invoices to my corporate sponsors.

Every day, every country presented a challenge to bookkeeping skills while on the road. Keeping accurate records of Skating Demos, Magazine Publicity Shots, Business Reimbursements – and billing for monthly salary – all before the presence of Web-based business communications – was, to say the least, daunting.

Invoicing took on a new “cloak of horror” when I started a lawn and landscaping service. The then available invoicing applications were quickly outgrown or heavily weighted in accounting principles, and produced “plain” payment requests. Nights and weekends were spent constructing, printing, and mailing hundreds of invoices --- week after week, month after month.

Combine all this frustration and aggravation with my passion for “all things computer” and the result – I create an online invoicing application. I grabbed the new Web-based technology by writing parameters for a business-friendly, customizable, professional, and secure invoicing (and estimating) system, using e-mail not snail-mail. Hence, the birth of Greenerbilling.

As a business owner I knew that the most important element is the speed at which you Bill and Get Paid. To meet that need, Account Preferences (e.g. Set up Due Date and Past Due Reminders, Customize Messages) and System Alerts (i.e. action reminders) became a top priority.

To address the issue of invoicing anywhere at anytime, I found a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) application the perfect answer. NO: downloading, buying updates, concerns over “crashing”, storage or security problems. Greenerbilling offers the convenience of doing business from the beach, tool bench, or board room; high costs are eliminated, replaced by month-to-month pricing. That keeps down the cost of doing business.

Keeping Greenerbilling Earth-friendly is a major focus for me. The name reflects two very basic business elements: grow a greener (more profitable) bottom-line in your business; reduce paper, ink, stamps in billing “green” for your business.