Invoice Ninja
· #247 most-usedInvoicing, payments, and billing — automated.
Invoice Ninja is the open-source invoicing platform trusted by freelancers and small businesses to create professional invoices, track billable time, manage expenses, and collect payments — available self-hosted or as a SaaS product. Connect it to Actionist and your agents can create clients, generate invoices the moment milestones complete, email quotes to prospects, log billable expenses from receipts, and record payments in real time — so your billing cycle runs itself while you focus on the work.
Eliminates manual work. Actionist eliminates the manual steps between completing work and getting paid — invoice creation, quote sending, payment logging, and AR reporting all happen automatically at the right moment.
What your Invoice Ninja agent runs on autopilot
A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.
Invoice Ninja × every other app you use
End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.
Invoice paid to client onboarded in 60 seconds
When a client emails to confirm their first payment has been sent, the agent reads the Invoice Ninja invoice, verifies payment status, emails the client an onboarding confirmation with project next steps, posts a kick-off notice to the team in Slack, and drops a project-start event on the Google Calendar — before any human has reached for their keyboard. Every new client gets a consistent, professional welcome with zero manual steps and zero dropped balls.
Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot
Savings
What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.
What you do manually today
What your agent runs for you
- Sales18 min / weekManual quote creation
Sales reps spend 20+ minutes building and sending Invoice Ninja quotes after each verbal agreement.
Sales Agent0 minAgent quotes on deal closeWhen a deal moves to Proposal Sent, the agent creates and emails the Invoice Ninja quote in seconds.
- Marketing13 min / weekDeal-to-invoice gap
Marketing hands off closed deals without triggering billing, causing a lag between commitment and first invoice.
Marketing Agent0 minAgent invoices on won dealWhen a HubSpot deal closes, the agent creates and emails the first Invoice Ninja invoice within 60 seconds.
- Customer Support18 min / weekPayment status chasing
Support reps manually log into Invoice Ninja to check invoice status when clients raise billing questions.
Customer Support Agent0 minAgent surfaces billing contextThe agent fetches the client's Invoice Ninja balance and last payment date the moment a billing ticket arrives.
- Human Resources7 min / weekContractor invoice tracking
HR manually checks Invoice Ninja to confirm contractor invoices are received and approved before payroll runs.
Human Resources Agent0 minAgent flags unpaid contractor invoicesThe agent scans all contractor invoices each week and posts a summary of unpaid items to HR before payroll.
- Finance13 min / weekMonth-end AR pull
Finance manually exports Invoice Ninja invoices and payments every month to build the accounts-receivable report.
Finance Agent0 minAgent generates AR report automaticallyOn the last business day, the agent fetches all invoices and payments and delivers a structured AR ageing report.
- Operations25 min / weekReceipt-to-ledger entry
Operations staff manually log each expense receipt into Invoice Ninja, one by one, after collecting them.
Operations Agent0 minAgent logs expenses from intake formWhen a receipt is submitted via the intake sheet, the agent creates the Invoice Ninja expense record instantly.
- Legal6 min / weekInvoice audit preparation
Legal manually pulls Invoice Ninja invoices and payment records to support contract audits and client disputes.
Legal Agent0 minAgent compiles invoice audit trailThe agent fetches all invoices and payments for a client period and exports a structured audit log on request.
Calculate what your team saves
Based on Invoice Ninja's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~2.5 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.
How to plug Invoice Ninja into Actionist
Pick the connection method that suits your environment.
The fastest path for self-hosted and SaaS Invoice Ninja users alike. Connect via the Invoice Ninja MCP server and Actionist agents gain full access to clients, invoices, quotes, payments, expenses, and tasks through a single permissioned handshake — no API keys to rotate, no token scope management.
Find Invoice Ninja in the Apps library and click Connect. MCP is selected by default.
You'll be redirected to your Invoice Ninja instance (invoiceninja.com or your self-hosted URL). Log in and grant Actionist read/write access to clients, invoices, quotes, payments, expenses, and tasks.
Actionist runs a read-only call to verify the handshake. You're ready.
26 actions your agent can call
Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.
8 events your agent can react to
Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.
Skills that pair with Invoice Ninja
Reusable agent skills that work well alongside this app.
MCP servers that work with Invoice Ninja
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