Accounting & invoicing: Invoicing and tax features are frustratingly inadequate
Users are experiencing significant frustration with invoicing and payment systems due to incorrect categorization, unexpected fees, and limitations on features that were once straightforward. This has led to feelings of disappointment and aggravation, as the tools intended to simplify invoicing are now perceived as cumbersome and unreliable.
14 people in 14 posts across 1 source · demand low, pain low, competition low
The pain
shares of 14 quoted postsWhat goes wrong, and for whom
- Who
- 14 people using Square Invoices: Invoice Maker, Invoice2go: Easy Invoice Maker, Invoice Maker ▸ Invoice Simple and Intuit QuickBooks for Business
- What goes wrong
- Missing feature7% of posts
- How bad
- 79% of posts are complaints · pain score low (39/100)
- Since
- 01 Sept 2025 → 20 Sept 2026
Is this a startup idea?
Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use — the fix belongs first to that provider.
- Complaints are about
- Square Invoices: Invoice Maker, Invoice2go: Easy Invoice Maker, Invoice Maker ▸ Invoice Simple and Intuit QuickBooks for Business
- Looking for something else
- 7% want an alternative · 7% ask the provider for a feature
- What the numbers say
- Almost nobody is looking for a different product — people want this provider to fix it, not a new option.
The pain — what people say
Their asks, who is writing, and the posts themselves
People are asking for
In their own words — asks pulled from the evidence, most-repeated first
“If you get denied for some bogus reason like I did after quadruple checking and even starting over twice, you’ll have to pay regardless of the lack in support pre or post tax filing”
What people were doing
Every post behind this page, by what its author was doing — and when each one was written
- Complaint1179%
- Looking for an alternative17%
- Request17%
- About price17%
Sources
14 signals · 1 sources
Evidence
Raw public posts behind this opportunity — click through to the original. 1 post was held back as off-topic; all 14 still count toward the score.
Invoice2go: Easy Invoice Maker — Annoying I’ve been trying to use this app for the past two weeks. Trying to set up a bank account so I can take payments other than just PayPal, and it just keeps saying over and over again we’ll be right back with your house. We’ll get back to you. We’ll I’m done. I have other apps…
Frustrated…t use PayPal so I’m sending them square links or Zelle. Like come on. I love using the invoice system but loosing out on fast payouts is frustrating.
Frustrated…a hold of somebody through customer service and it seems impossible. If you get denied for some bogus reason like I did after quadruple checking and even starting over twice, you’ll have to pay regardless of the lack in support pre or post tax filing
Missing featureSquare Invoices: Invoice Maker — Extremely Disappointed — This Feels Like Bait and Switch Extremely Disappointed _This Feels Like Bait and Switch For the second time, I feel Square has pulled the rug out from under hemp-related businesses after allowing us to build our operations around its platform. Businesses like…
…oice Maker — Disabled my account for no reason and lost me 1.5 grand I attempted to use this app to invoice a customer who bought expensive camera equipment from me. After the deal was made I got an email of a “random audit” on my account. Despite responding to audit correctly they deactivated my account and all…
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Score unchanged at 44.6 · 23 Sept 2026, 20:00 → 21:15 UTC
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Questions about this idea
- Is Accounting & invoicing: Invoicing and tax features are frustratingly inadequate a startup idea?
- Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use, and the fix belongs first to that provider. The page shows what is frustrating users and how badly — not an open market to start a company in.
- How many people have this problem?
- 14 different people described it independently, in 14 mentions, the earliest from 01 Sept 2025 and the most recent from 20 Sept 2026. The quotes, with dates and links to the originals, are in the Evidence section.
- Is this problem getting worse?
- Current status: rising — mentioned more often than before. Momentum is 62/100, measured as how often it is mentioned recently compared with before.
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