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Panorivo vs a spreadsheet
This is what most freelancers actually use, and it is not stupid - a spreadsheet is free, instant and yours. What it cannot do is the half of the job that faces the client, which is where the unpaid invoices and the fourth round of revisions come from.
The spreadsheet is not the problem
Tracking jobs in a sheet works. What a sheet cannot do is be somewhere your client goes - so contracts happen in email attachments, files happen on a shared link that anyone can forward, approval happens in a message you have to find again, and chasing happens when you remember. Every one of those gaps costs money rather than time.
What actually changes
The client gets a login in your branding: their instructions, their files, their documents to sign and their invoices to pay, at one address. You get the same job list you had, plus the record of who agreed to what and when.
The number you are missing
Unbilled hours. Log time against a job as you work and the dashboard shows what you have done and not yet invoiced. Almost every freelancer who starts tracking discovers the figure is larger than they thought, and it is the fastest pay rise available.
Chasing that is not your job
Overdue reminders send themselves, in your name, on a schedule. It removes the single most-avoided task in freelancing, which is why unpaid invoices sit for months in the spreadsheet version.
Side by side
| Panorivo | spreadsheets | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Tracking your jobs | Yes | Yes, and perfectly well |
| Somewhere the client logs in | Yes | No |
| Signed contracts with a timestamp | Yes, name, time and IP | No |
| Files served only to the right person | Yes | A shared link anyone can forward |
| Approval on the record | Yes | An email, if you can find it |
| Invoices with your numbering | Yes | By hand, and easy to duplicate a number |
| Automatic overdue chasing | Yes | You remember, or you do not |
| Unbilled time you have not invoiced | Shown on the dashboard | In your head |
| Works when your laptop dies | Yes | Depends where the file was |
Checked on 11 August 2026.
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