no more typing :-)

A business card becomes a client in seconds

Drag in a photo of a business card and Billbooks reads the name, company, email, and phone straight off it. Review, save, and the client is ready to invoice, no retyping from a card on your desk.

Elin Berg
Nordholm Design Studio
el**@******lm.com
+1 619 555 0148
Read from the card
Name
Elin Berg
Company
Nordholm Design Studio
Email
el**@******lm.com
Phone
+1 619 555 0148
Save client
now, even quicker :-)

Billbooks runs on a global edge network

Your invoices, estimates and clients are served from the network location closest to you, not from one machine on the other side of the world. Moving between a list, a new invoice and a sent document happens in the time it takes to look at it.

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A stack of business cards is a stack of manual data entry

You meet someone, take their card, and it sits in a drawer until you finally type their details into your client list by hand. By then half the cards are gone. Billbooks reads the card the moment you upload it, so the client record gets created while the introduction is still fresh.

How it works

Drag or upload a card

A photo from your phone or a scan works, right from the Clients page.

Billbooks reads it

Name, company, email, and phone are pulled off the card into a new client form.

Review and save

Check the fields, fix anything the scan misread, and save. Nothing is added without your review.

Ready to invoice

The new client is on your list, currency and terms ready to set, no separate data-entry step.

Built for anyone who collects business cards

FreelancersAgenciesConsultantsSales-driven small businessesCoaches & TutorsAnyone who networks at events

Business card scanning is included at the one flat price.

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bring your history with you

Already have years of invoices? Scan them in.

Photograph an old invoice or drop in a PDF. Billbooks reads the client, the dates, the line items, the tax and the currency, and gives you back a real invoice you can edit rather than a file you have to store.

It finds the client and matches them to one you already have, or creates them.
Scanned invoices are ordinary invoices, so last year's revenue lands in your reports and your profit and loss statement.
Nothing to set up and no separate screen. The drop zone sits on the invoice and quote pages you already use.
PDF JPG PNG up to 50 pages, 20 MB
Drop an old invoice A photo from your phone works
read and structured
Invoice #2024-118
ClientHarper & Vale Ltd
Issued14 Mar 2025
Line items6
Tax20%
Total£4,820.00
Profit and loss, last year included
Scanned in Raised in Billbooks

Questions

What if the scan reads a field wrong? +

Every field is editable before you save, so you can fix a misread name or number before it becomes a client record.

What file types can I upload? +

A photo or scan of the card, JPG or PNG, works fine.

Does this replace filling in a client manually? +

No, it is an option alongside it. Add a client the usual way whenever you do not have a card to scan.

Is this included in the plan? +

Yes, included at the one flat price.

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