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Hey Product Hunt 👋 I built AutoChase because I kept losing hours every month manually chasing clients for unpaid invoices — and writing the "hey, just checking in on this" email never stopped feeling awkward. AutoChase does the chasing for you: turn it on for any invoice and it automatically sends a gentle reminder at day+1, a follow-up at day+5, and a final notice at day+10 — professional, consistent, and completely hands-off. If a client opens a reminder but stays quiet, it escalates automatically instead of waiting out the full schedule. A few things I haven't seen anywhere else at this price: clients can request to split a bill into installments right from their payment page (you approve the schedule); each client gets a reliability score based on real payment history, so you know who's worth chasing harder; and if a client says they've already paid, one click pauses the reminders instead of you having to remember to. It's free forever for up to 3 active invoices. Pro is £9/mo (14-day trial, no card required) and unlocks all of the above plus unlimited invoices, PDF exports, CSV import/export, and an aging report. Would love your feedback — especially from other freelancers/agencies on what's still awkward about getting paid. I'll be in the comments all day.

Been freelancing for [X years] and the thing I still haven't solved well is the emotional overhead of chasing overdue invoices. Doesn't matter that I'm in the right — sending that "hey just following up" email still makes me feel like I'm asking for a favor. Curious how others handle it: - Do you have a fixed schedule for reminders, or do you send them whenever you remember? - Does anyone actually use late fees, or is that mostly theoretical? - How do you keep the relationship intact with a client who's just... slow, not malicious? I ended up building myself a small system that auto-sends a gentle → follow-up → final sequence so I don't have to decide when to chase — happy to share details if useful, but mostly want to hear how other people deal with the awkwardness.

Ran the numbers on my own invoicing last year and found I was losing something like [X hours/month] just tracking who owed what and manually following up. Three things actually helped, in order of impact: 1. A fixed reminder schedule (not ad hoc) — sending something at day+1, day+5, day+10 overdue consistently, rather than "whenever I remember," cut average payment time noticeably. 2. A direct payment link in every reminder — removing "I'll transfer it later" as an option. 3. Clean, professional invoices — sounds cosmetic but a proper invoice number + VAT details + clear layout gets treated with more urgency than an ad hoc Word doc. None of this requires expensive accounting software — most of it you can do manually with a calendar reminder and a template. I ended up automating mine (built a small tool for it since nothing affordable existed that just did chasing), but the process matters more than the tool.

Context: I kept losing hours every month manually chasing overdue invoices, and every "just checking in" email felt more awkward than it should. Existing tools were either full accounting suites (Xero, FreshBooks — overkill and expensive for a solo operator) or chasing-focused but priced for finance teams (Chaser.io is £199/mo now, jumps to £599/mo above £4M turnover — they've moved firmly upmarket in the last couple years). Built AutoChase to sit in the gap: £9/mo, just invoice chasing, nothing else. What it does: - Auto-sends a gentle → follow-up → final reminder sequence (day+1/5/10), and escalates early if a reminder's been opened but the client's gone quiet - Public payment page for clients — no login, one-click pay, and they can request to split a bill into installments right from that page - Client reliability scoring — a Good/Average/Risky flag per client based on actual payment history, so you know who to chase harder before you even send the next invoice - Aging report so you can see exactly how much is stuck and where - Free forever for up to 3 invoices, 14-day Pro trial with no card required Would genuinely appreciate feedback from anyone who's dealt with this problem — especially on pricing (is £9/mo the right number for solo freelancers vs. micro-agencies?) and what's missing before you'd trust it with your invoicing. autochase.app

We're launching AutoChase on Product Hunt next Tuesday. It's a small tool we built to solve a problem every freelancer and small agency knows too well: chasing clients for late payments without it feeling awkward every single time. AutoChase automatically sends a gentle reminder, a follow-up, and a final notice on a fixed schedule — and if a client's opened a reminder but gone quiet, it escalates early instead of waiting out the full cycle. More on Tuesday. If getting paid on time is a recurring headache for your business, keep an eye out.

AutoChase is live on Product Hunt today. We built it after watching how much time freelancers and small agencies lose manually chasing overdue invoices — and how uncomfortable that process still feels even when the client is clearly in the wrong. AutoChase handles it automatically: a gentle reminder, a follow-up, and a final notice on a fixed schedule, with smart escalation if a client opens a reminder and goes quiet. Clients get a branded payment page with no login required, and can even request to split a bill into installments directly from it. Each client also gets a reliability score based on real payment history, so you know who's worth chasing harder before the next invoice goes out. Free forever for up to 3 invoices. £9/month for the rest, 14-day trial, no card required. We'd love your support on Product Hunt today — and even more, we'd love to hear what's still missing: [insert PH link]

1/ We spent years watching freelancers and small agencies lose hours manually chasing clients for late payments. Every reminder email felt awkward, even when they were just asking for money they were owed. So we built a tool that does the chasing for you. Launching AutoChase today 🚀 2/ How it works: turn on auto-chase for any invoice, and it sends a gentle reminder at day+1 overdue, a follow-up at day+5, and a final notice at day+10 — automatically. If a reminder's been opened but the client's gone quiet, it escalates early instead of waiting out the schedule. 3/ Clients get a branded payment page — no login, just a clean invoice view and a "Pay now" button. They can even request to split a bill into installments right from that page. Removes every excuse to delay. 4/ Each client gets a reliability score based on real payment history — Good/Average/Risky — so you know who's worth chasing harder before you even send the next invoice. Free forever for up to 3 invoices. Pro is £9/mo (14-day trial, no card needed) for the rest. 5/ If you're a freelancer or run a small shop and this problem sounds familiar — we'd love you to try it and tell us what's missing: autochase.app

This is the one part of freelancing I never got used to. What helped most for me was making it a fixed process instead of a decision every time — a reminder at day+1, day+5, and day+10 overdue, same wording, same schedule, every client. Once it's automatic it stops feeling personal. (Ended up building a small tool to handle this automatically since I got tired of doing it by hand — happy to share if useful, don't want to just drop a link uninvited.)