Feb 23, 2015 02:18:20 AM by Udi D
A few days ago I contacted the the odesk support to see if I can get only 1 invoice every month, that concludes all my payments to all the people on "my team".
This will save the hassle of printing 10 to 20 different invoices, and more important – its more environment friendly !!
Odesk support contacted me back and said that at the moment they do not have this feature ,but it’s a good suggestion – and they will look into it.
Will that be something that will interest all of the rest of you freelancers ?
Odesk is the most professional platform for freelance jobs I know – and I am happy to have discovered it and I put it to use on a daily basis.
Hope to hear your notes on this subject.
Udi
Feb 23, 2015 05:38:10 AM by Valeria K
Hi Udi,
Thank you very much for posting your suggestion. I understand how it would be more convenient for clients to be able to download invoices in bulk or have a way to have one invoice for all the payments. I will share your feedback with our Team.
Feb 23, 2015 11:56:09 AM by Krisztina U
Yes, Udi - that would be a great and much needed feature and one that we've been requesting and oDesk "has been looking into" for many years now!
Jul 2, 2015 08:30:49 AM by Marcin W
Yes! Yes! Yes!
Dear oDesk/Upwork, we want monthly invoices, and we want them now.
Jul 13, 2015 01:01:05 PM by Dan D
Yes! This is a must have.... I just downloaded 20 pdfs for one month!?
Jul 5, 2016 10:00:40 PM by Jennifer D
This is a pretty old thread Nancy but I can tell you how to print your invoices (if you're a client). Click on "Reports" in the top menu, then click "Transactions" in the left menu. You'll see your transaction history. Each transaction has a "Ref ID" which is a link that you can click. Clicking it will pop up a small window with the details and a "View invoice" link which will allow you to download the invoice as a PDF. You can then print the PDF.
Jun 20, 2017 05:25:38 AM by Christopher B
We still need the Monthly invoices.
And honestly, its not a advanced feature or a unfair request,
I got two freelancers and my bookeeper just came back to me with a huge trash talk about it, and honestly, who can blame her?
8 invoices for one month's work... That's over 3 time more than I'm sending out for as a lone freelancer each month.
Also, who does invoicing per month if not on upwork? I really do not see where this is coming form.
Anyhow, we still need it.
Thanks
Jun 20, 2017 09:14:46 AM by Valeria K
Hi Christopher,
You can now download invoices in bulk in Transaction History. Just set a date range (you can do it monthly) and click this button:
Since billing on Upwork is done on a weekly basis for hourly contracts and when the money is paid and released from Escrow for fixed-priced contracts, there is no option to view monthly invoices.
Jan 18, 2021 01:41:15 PM by Vadim B
Change date range so it does not exceed 31 days.
This is ridiculous 31 day. I was expecting it for the last 3 years not 31 days.
Apr 19, 2021 12:39:16 PM by Roi H
Is there any update on this request for monthly invoicing??
We get about 20 pdf invoices for a budget of less than 1000 dollars per month - this is really inconvenient
Thank you for any comment or update on this
Apr 19, 2021 06:56:42 AM by Roi H
Hello
I wanted to understand if it is possible to minimize the number of invoices we get from upwork each month?
Our current situation is as follows:
-we have contracts with a number of freelancers each month (at least 5 contracts with 5 different freelancers)
-each contract is pay-per-hour
-each freelancer either manually or via the time tracker submits their hours
The result is that we get 1 invoice per freelancer per 1 week of work. So, even for a relativlely small monthly spend (say 1,000$) we can get up to 20 invoices (e.g. 5 freelancers X 4 weeks). We need to download those invoices and submit them locally for Tax purposes one by one and so we are looking for any solution to get a single invoice for the total amount spent per month, for example. Any other possible solution to reduce the number of invoices is also welcome.
Is there anyway to achieve our goal?
Many thanks
Roi
Apr 19, 2021 01:06:48 PM by Bojan S
Hi Roi,
We’ll have one of our agents reach out to you via a support ticket to advise you regarding this query.
Thank you for reaching out to us.
Apr 20, 2021 03:06:18 AM by Roi H
Thank you
I dont see the support ticket or any notification of it - was the ticket opened yet?
Is there another way to get info such as chat or phone with an upwork agent?
Thank you
Roi
Apr 20, 2021 03:52:51 AM by Goran V
Hi Roi,
I'm sorry about the delay with this and the inconvenience this is causing you. I just escalated your concern again and one of our team members will reach out to you directly as soon as possible. Thank you.
Sep 5, 2022 03:28:08 AM by Magdalena B
I would love an option for one monthly invoice, instead of weekly invoices! Please please please add this feature!!!
Oct 1, 2022 07:01:19 AM by Marie N
Any updates on a monthly invoice option? It is really time-consuming to keep accounts with weekly invoices.
Feb 21, 2023 02:36:58 AM Edited Feb 22, 2023 02:53:42 AM by Marcio M
Here we are, 8 years later and Upwork still doesn't have a monthly invoice feature. Everybody still has to deal with the overwhelming number of invoices it generates. I've hired only 4 people which generates 32 invoices per month! UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!
Feb 21, 2023 07:47:15 AM by Jonathan L
I believe you when you say there are too many invoices per month, because of the weekly invoicing. But I don't follow how 4 weeks times 4 freelancers yields 32 invoices. What am I missing?
Feb 22, 2023 02:52:57 AM by Marcio M
Hello Jonathan,
Every week, Upwork generates 2 invoices for each contract a client has. The first invoice is from the freelancer to the client based on the contract hourly rate, and the second invoice is from Upwork to the client charging the Upwork fee.
A client that hires 4 freelancers makes Upwork generate 8 invoices every week. In 4 weeks, there are astonishing 32 invoices, which creates a lot of accounting work for the client that has to input all invoices on its accounting software and reconcile them all with the bank account charge.
It has always been a lot of hassle for clients, but Upwork simply doesn't care and doesn't bother to resolve it. Notice this original post is from Feb 2015, exactly 8 years ago, which proves my point.
Regards,
Feb 21, 2023 12:49:57 PM by Annie Jane B
Hi Marcio,
Thank you for reaching out. We understand you want the ease of having just once invoice per month. I shared your feedback with the relevant team for review.
Apr 14, 2023 09:28:33 PM by JJ V
So Upwork believes it is perfectly OK to keep saying for 8(!) years that they'll share the feedback with the team? Get real and start looking after your customers NOW please. Surely asking for 1 invoice per month is not too much to ask for?
Oct 12, 2023 11:24:36 PM by Johan L
We have the same basic need as everybody else in here. Too many invoices every month. I've never seen this before, and we've been working with probably 1000 companies the last 25 years. We want the standard: 1 invoice per month.
I also have a question to Upwork support: Invoices can be sent per email, but for some weird reason they are sent as ZIP-files. No accounting program that I've seen can handle ZIP-files. Again, I've never seen a company send their invoices as ZIP-files since they are usually blocked by the e-mail filters.
With ZIP, again you will have a lot of manual administration, unpacking each ZIP to PDF. Manually emailing the PDF to the accounting program - for each invoice, ie. 32 per month...
There must be a better way?
Jan 17, 2023 12:38:19 PM by Mark C
I would like Invoices to be sent directly to Accounting so I don't have to go in every month, download the PDF, and send it to them. How can I do that? Thanks!
Jan 17, 2023 02:17:43 PM by Arjay M
Hi Mark,
Thank you for reaching out to us. Please note that Invoicing happens automatically through the time tracker for hourly and through the milestones for a fixed price. Unfortunately, Upwork cannot send invoices directly for accounting purposes. Upwork provides some reports that you can use to track earnings and Upwork fees, but beyond that, you need to do your own bookkeeping/accounting.
Oct 13, 2023 02:37:04 AM by Jure L
Let me rephrase the question. How to allow our accountant to get all invoices from UpWork without my intervention and manual work? Welcome to 21 Century!
Feb 1, 2024 10:43:41 AM by Lucy W
I'm shocked this thread has been open since 2015 with no movement from Upwork's side. I am in the same situation of having dozens of individual invoices a month, which is a nightmare for my financial team to deal with. Can we **please** get monthly invoices that show the total paid?
Feb 9, 2024 10:48:33 PM by Gagandeep S
The date range selector should display invoices with generated date not when the invoice is paid. This is a pain to open all invoice just to see the date and the csv download don't show the date when invoice is created.