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Four revenue layers of decreasing certainty, drawn separately rather than stacked into one total

How to forecast revenue when you do not bill the same amount every month

Project businesses are told to look at MRR, which they do not have. Here is a model that works when your income arrives in bursts: four layers, sorted by how certain each one is, never added together.

05 Sept 2026 · 4 min read

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What a US invoice has to include, and what it does not

No general US statute says what a commercial invoice must contain, so most "required field" lists are convention, not law. Here is what actually makes an invoice work, what the two federal exceptions (customs and federal contracts) really require, and which fields you can drop.

09 Sept 2026 · 21 min read

Invoicing Getting paid

A payment timeline from issue to due date, with the gap after the due date marked

Invoice payment terms that actually get you paid

Net 30, due on receipt, deposits, milestones and late fees, and what each one actually does to your cash. Plus why an invoice is the worst place for a payment term to appear for the first time.

09 Sept 2026 · 19 min read

Invoicing Getting paid

Twelve months of uneven revenue bars crossing the flat monthly line other tools assume

How to choose invoicing software when your revenue is not monthly

If your income arrives in bursts rather than on a monthly clock, most invoicing comparisons are measuring the wrong things. Here is how to judge project billing tools on deposits, milestone schedules, committed future revenue, and what happens to your records the month you stop paying.

09 Sept 2026 · 18 min read

Invoicing Getting paid

Five escalating reminder steps from three days before the due date to thirty days after

How to chase an overdue invoice without damaging the relationship

Most unpaid invoices are not refusals, they are stuck in somebody's approval queue. A sequence that escalates in stages, asks for one specific thing each time, and never threatens.

09 Aug 2026 · 4 min read

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