Accounting & invoicing: Too expensive pricing and plans for invoicing apps
Many users find the pricing of invoicing apps to be excessively high, especially when their invoicing needs are minimal. This has led to dissatisfaction and a consideration of switching to alternative solutions due to repeated price increases and limited features.
5 people in 5 posts across 1 source · demand low, pain low, competition low
The pain
shares of 5 quoted postsWhat goes wrong, and for whom
- Who
- 5 people using Invoice Maker ▸ Invoice Simple and Invoice2go: Easy Invoice Maker
- What goes wrong
- Too expensive60% of posts
- Missing feature20% of posts
- How bad
- 0% of posts are complaints · pain score low (12/100)
- Since
- 11 Feb 2026 → 19 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
- Invoice Maker ▸ Invoice Simple and Invoice2go: Easy Invoice Maker
- Looking for something else
- 20% want an alternative · 40% ask the provider for a feature
- What the numbers say
- 20% are looking for an alternative — if there is an opening, it is with them.
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
“Invoice Maker ▸ Invoice Simple — Too expensive.”
“It’s unfortunate because I was very satisfied with the app, but between the significant price increase and the lack of direct access to payment receipts, I’ve decided it’s time to look elsewhere.”
What people were doing
Every post behind this page, by what its author was doing — and when each one was written
- Looking for an alternative120%
- Request240%
- About price240%
Sources
5 signals · 1 sources
Evidence
Raw public posts behind this opportunity — click through to the original
…e this app I used this app for years….. till the price got too high. I only send maybe 5-10 invoices a month and paying up to $150 year makes the invoice too expensive to make it worth the cost. I wish they had kept it simple when I first used it and it cost $50 or less a year. This is really ment for large business…
Wishes it existedToo expensiveInvoice Maker ▸ Invoice Simple — Too expensive First of all, let me say the app is works great and I love using it for my invoices, but they keep raising the price. I was just sending out an invoice right now and I'm already on the $6.99 a month plan which only allows me 3 invoices per month which is pretty bad. But…
Too expensive…ss to receipts for payments should be a basic part of their business. It’s unfortunate because I was very satisfied with the app, but between the significant price increase and the lack of direct access to payment receipts, I’ve decided it’s time to look elsewhere.
Missing feature- App Store (English storefronts)App Store US/Accounting & invoicing·11 Feb 2026·Looking for an alternativesource ↗
…ard time reconciling the 12.5% increase in my subscription this year. This is not the first price increase either and I may be looking for a new invoicing app before it renews next month. And these guys have the nerve to solicit a 5 Star review.
Looking for a tool Invoice Maker ▸ Invoice Simple — Entirely too expensive I’m not paying your increased price. That’s an additional $132 a year. No thanks.
Too expensive
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Existing solutions
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Why did it move?
Score unchanged at 34.9 · 23 Sept 2026, 20:00 → 21:15 UTC
How the score was measured37 measured values behind the seven sub-scores · each shows the value, then the points it earned out of 100Show ↓Hide ↑
Questions about this idea
- Is Accounting & invoicing: Too expensive pricing and plans for invoicing apps 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?
- 5 different people described it independently, in 5 mentions, the earliest from 11 Feb 2026 and the most recent from 19 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 61/100, measured as how often it is mentioned recently compared with before.
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