Free forever, and $4.99 a month if you want more
The free plan is not a trial and it has no invoice cap. Pro changes how your invoice looks and whose brand is on it, never how much work you are allowed to do and never where it is stored.
No card to start No trial clock No invoice cap
What it costs, in one paragraph
Invoice Local is free forever for unlimited invoices, quotes and customers, with the Classic PDF design and a small watermark. Pro costs $4.99 a month or $29.99 a year and adds five more invoice designs, removes the watermark and puts your logo on the invoice. Cloud backup and sync are free with an account. There is no card required to start and no trial to run out.
That is the whole Invoice Local price list. There is no per invoice fee, no per customer fee, no setup cost and no tier above Pro. A window cleaner sending forty invoices a month and a plumber sending six pay exactly the same, which is nothing unless they want the extra designs.
The reason volume is free is simple. Charging a trade more for being busier is a bad deal for both sides, so the paid tier sits on presentation instead.
The two plans
Everything in Free stays in Free. Nothing you have already created is ever locked away if you do not upgrade, or if you upgrade and later stop.
Free
- Unlimited invoices & quotes
- Unlimited customers & saved items
- WhatsApp & email sending
- Works offline, on your device
- Twelve languages, PDF included
- Cloud backup & sync, with a free account
- Classic design, small watermark
- Your business name as the letterhead
Pro
or $29.99 a year, which works out at $2.50 a month
- Everything in Free
- All six invoice designs
- No watermark on your PDFs
- Your own logo on every invoice
- Cancel any time in Google Play
What actually differs
| Free | Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Invoices and quotes | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Customers and saved items | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| WhatsApp and email sending | Yes | Yes |
| Works offline | Yes | Yes |
| Deposits and part payments | Yes | Yes |
| Twelve languages, PDF included | Yes | Yes |
| Invoice designs | Classic only | All six |
| Watermark on the PDF | Small watermark | None |
| Your logo on the invoice | Business name as text | Your logo |
| Cloud backup | Yes, with a free account | Yes |
| Sync across devices | Yes, with a free account | Yes |
Three rows. That is genuinely the entire difference between the two plans, and it is worth reading before you pay for something you may not need.
Who should actually pay
Plenty of people should stay on Free, and saying so is more useful than pretending everyone needs the upgrade.
- Pay if the one free design does not suit the customers you invoice
- Pay if the watermark bothers you on invoices going to commercial clients
- Pay if you want a design that suits your trade rather than the one default
- Stay free if the Classic design already looks right for your customers
- Stay free and still sign in, because backup and sync cost nothing
- Stay free if you are new and not yet sure this is the tool you will keep
What Pro does not add
Worth knowing before you pay, because these are the things people most often assume a paid tier unlocks.
- It does not add card payments. No plan lets a customer pay the invoice by card
- It does not add accounting, bank feeds or a profit and loss
- It does not add automatic recurring billing. You still duplicate last month
- It does not raise any limit, because the free plan has no limits to raise
- It does not add an iPhone app. Android and browser at every tier
- It does not add a team workspace. Each person signs in separately
- It does not add cloud backup or sync. A free account already turns those on
- It does not remove your business name from a free invoice. Free prints it as text, Pro prints your logo
How the billing works
Pro is a Google Play subscription, which decides most of the practical detail.
- Charged by Google PlayYour existing Play payment method is used. We never see or hold your card details.
- Cancel in Google PlaySubscriptions are managed in the Play Store, not inside the app. Cancelling takes about thirty seconds.
- Runs to the period endCancel and Pro stays active until the paid period finishes rather than stopping that day.
- Tax handled by GooglePlay adds and remits sales tax or VAT according to your country, so the price you see at checkout is the price.
- Annual saves half$29.99 a year against $4.99 a month, which is $59.88 over the same twelve months.
- Bought on AndroidThe purchase happens in the Android app. Sign in and your plan travels with your account.
What happens if you stop paying
This is the question that decides whether a small business trusts a subscription, so it deserves a straight answer.
Your invoices, quotes, customers and saved items all stay exactly where they are. Nothing is deleted, hidden or held hostage. The app drops back to the Classic design with its small watermark. Cloud backup keeps running, because it was never part of Pro.
If you had signed in, the data already in your account stays in your account. Resubscribing later turns the designs straight back on, with nothing to restore or migrate.
Pilot Local customers get Pro at no cost
If you have a website built by Pilot Local, Pro is included. You receive a code in the format PL-XXXX-XXXX and redeem it in Settings, which switches the account to Pro without any Play subscription at all.
The code is single use and tied to your account once redeemed. If you were told you would get one and it has not arrived, email support@invoicelocal.com and it will be sorted.
How this compares on cost
Most invoicing tools price one of three ways, and which is cheapest depends entirely on how you work rather than on the sticker price.
| Model | Who it suits | Where it hurts |
|---|---|---|
| Capped free tier | Very low volume | You hit the cap in a busy month and pay to keep working |
| Percentage of payments | Card heavy businesses | Cost grows with your revenue, invisibly |
| Small fixed subscription | Anyone with steady volume | You pay it even in a quiet month |
This is the third model with a genuinely uncapped free tier underneath it. If you want to see how that lands against specific products, the comparison pages go through them one by one and say where each competitor wins.
Pricing questions
Is the free plan really unlimited?
Yes. No monthly cap, no annual cap, no per invoice charge and no limit on customers or saved items. The only free plan limits are one invoice design instead of six and a small watermark on the PDF.
Is there a free trial of Pro?
There is no separate trial, because the free plan is not time limited. You can use the app indefinitely without paying, and upgrade whenever the designs become worth $4.99 to you.
How do I cancel?
In the Google Play Store, under subscriptions, not inside the app. Pro then stays active until the end of the period you have already paid for. Nothing in your data changes when it ends.
Can I get a refund?
Refunds go through Google Play under their refund policy, because Play is the merchant of record for the subscription. If something has gone wrong, email support first and we will help you sort it out.
Do you take a percentage of what I invoice?
No. The app does not process payments at all, so there is nothing to take a percentage of. Your customers pay you directly by transfer, cash or your own card reader, and none of it passes through us.
What if I pay and then decide it was not worth it?
Cancel in Play and you drop back to the free plan at the end of the period with every invoice, customer and item intact. The only things you lose are the five extra designs and the watermark removal.
Is there a discount for annual?
Yes. $29.99 a year against $59.88 if you paid monthly for twelve months, which is a saving of about half. Both are the same Pro, there is no annual only feature.
Will the price go up?
We have no plan to raise it, and if it ever changed, existing subscribers would be told before it applied to them. What will not change is the free plan being uncapped, because that promise is the reason most people install it.
See it doing the job first
Start on free and decide later
No card, no trial clock and no sign up needed to send your first invoice. Pro is there when the designs are worth it.