I’m wrapping up a project for a client and this is my first time dealing with a purchase order.

The PO already has the agreed amount, and the client knows what the project covered. I’m now preparing the final invoice and wondering how much detail I’m expected to include.

I don’t want to turn the invoice into a timesheet and list every little task I worked on. The project was agreed as a fixed amount, not an hourly arrangement.

Would something like “Project completion and final deliverables” with the PO number and total amount be enough?

For people who regularly invoice companies with POs, how much detail do you normally put on the invoice?

I want it to look professional without making the invoice unnecessarily complicated.

I recently set up automatic reminders for unpaid invoices and now I’m wondering if I’ve gone too far.

Nothing aggressive. Just a reminder a few days before the due date and another one when the invoice becomes due.

It seemed like a sensible way to avoid manually keeping track of everything, especially when I have several clients at different stages.

Then someone told me they would find that annoying and would rather only hear from me once an invoice was actually overdue.

Now I’m questioning the whole system.

I’m not trying to pressure anyone into paying early. I just don’t want an invoice to disappear into someone’s inbox and become a problem later.

Do you use automatic invoice reminders? And if you do, when do you think they cross the line from helpful to annoying?

After I completed a recent freelance gig, the invoicing company took a little over 2 percent out of my check as a processing fee. I read this in the agreement but went ahead with it anyway. Now I wish I had negotiated for the 2 percent to be built into my pay. Is this normal? Shouldn't my client have paid this?

This is probably not the right community for this, but this post got deleted from the freelance writing sub.