Send an invoice in 12 seconds. Track time without timers. Keep an honest ledger without learning double-entry. Relay is the financial back-office for solo founders, freelancers, and tiny studios who just want to get paid and move on.
Most invoicing tools are bloated spreadsheets disguised as software. Relay only does the three things a one-person business actually needs — invoicing, time, and ledger — and it does them well. Nothing else.
Pick the client, type the amount, hit send. Relay generates the PDF, attaches your logo, and emails a Stripe payment link from your own domain. No templates. No wizard.
Open Relay at the start of the day. It quietly watches your active window and groups minutes by client. At 5pm you have a timesheet already 70% filled.
Bank feed in, categories out. Relay maintains a clean double-entry view in the background — balances, P&L, tax exports — but the surface stays deliberately quiet.
This is a real dashboard view from last Tuesday. We picked the day with the most varied activity — three clients, a mix of paid and outstanding, time tracked across five projects. Everything below is what a Relay user actually saw.
$8,420
invoices sent
▲ $1,200 vs. last Tue$5,940
paid & cleared
3 of 5 invoices settled6h 12m
across 5 projects
billed at 2h 04mThe five-step onboarding only runs once. After that Relay stays in your menu bar and a daily digest email — most days you'll forget it's there, until you remember how much time it saved.
Plaid handshake, takes 90 seconds. Relay pulls the last 90 days of history so your ledger starts with context, not an empty white box.
Paste from a spreadsheet, link to a CRM, or just type them in. Relay remembers payment terms per client and pre-fills every invoice from there on.
Set one CNAME and outgoing invoices look like they came from you, not relay.app. Your logo goes in automatically — we read it off the email signature you confirm.
One number, used everywhere unless overridden per client. Time entries without a rate get flagged in red — so you never accidentally bill $0 for $200 of work.
Relay sits in your menu bar and watches quietly. A daily digest at 6pm summarises the day. End of month, it pre-fills your tax export — you review, you click submit.
Your data is yours. Full ledger, time entries, and invoices export to CSV, JSON, or Xero-compatible QIF at any time, including on cancellation. No lock-in.
Three days in and I'd already reclaimed the time I used to spend on a Sunday every month catching up my books. It's so quiet I forget to talk about it, which is the highest compliment I have for software.
Priya R. — independent product designer · Toronto · customer since Feb 2024
14,318
solo founders and freelancers on Relay
$312M
invoiced through Relay since launch
94%
of invoices get paid on time, vs 62% industry avg
4 min
median daily time spent in-app
Relay is one flat monthly fee. No per-invoice charges, no transaction fees, no tiers that disappear the moment your business grows. Stripe and Plaid fees pass through at cost — that's all.
$0
$18/mo
$48/mo
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