HootZen

Hooting up your dashboard…

HootZen
Open beta · Free to use
Ollie the HootZen owl
Paid invoice
Rupee coin
Sage check icon
Paper plane invoice

Send invoices.
Get paid.
That's it.

GST-ready invoicing for India's freelancers and small businesses.

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No card needed. No demo call. Sign up with email, you're in.

Open beta

You're early.
That's a good thing.

We're building HootZen in public with a small founding group. Drop your email and you're in — every beta benefit, locked in.

Free during beta · No card · 60-second setup

  • 01

    Free during beta

    No card, no caps. Unlimited invoices, customers, items. Send as many as you want.

  • 02

    Founding rate, locked in

    When we exit beta and introduce paid tiers, your beta-user price stays. Forever, for as long as you keep using HootZen.

  • 03

    Direct line to the team

    Email a real human, get a real reply within hours — not days. We genuinely answer.

  • 04

    Vote on what ships next

    Beta users see the roadmap and weigh in on priorities. The features that ship are the ones you ask for.

Why this exists

You wanted to send an invoice.
Not get a degree in enterprise software.

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The enterprise way

Built for a CFO with a procurement team.

  • 47 menu items you'll never click
  • Multi-warehouse, SKU codes — for a freelancer
  • Per seat. Per module. Enterprise pricing.
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Acme Studios

INV-0042

Paid
Total₹42,000
Send

The HootZen way

Built for you. The one actually sending the invoice.

  • One page to create. One to send. One to track.
  • Auto-everything that matters — tax, currency, reminders
  • Free during beta. No gates, no seat counts.

What you get

Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.

Beautiful invoices

Six PDF templates, your brand color, your logo. Looks like a designer made it. Took 8 seconds.

Send in one tap

Email, WhatsApp link, public URL. Your customer clicks once. No login wall.

Draft
Sent
Paid

Track who's paid

One screen. Paid, overdue, awaiting payment. Color-coded. Click a row to chase.

Globe with currency symbols orbiting

Multi-currency, sorted

USD, EUR, INR, GBP — pick any. Exchange rates handled. GST, IGST, LUT exports — automatic.

Works on your phone

Real mobile-first design. Send an invoice from a Mumbai local. Or the toilet. We don't judge.

Ollie thinking

Ollie's coming

AI helpers baked in. Draft from a message. Chase late payers. Summarize your week. Soon.

Ollie waving

Meet the mascot

This is Ollie.

He's the owl on our roof. Wise, watchful, slightly judgy about late payments. Right now Ollie just keeps your books tidy. Soon, he'll do a lot more.

Coming soon

Draft from a message

Forward an email or paste a WhatsApp chat. Ollie drafts the invoice. You review, send.

Coming soon

Chase late payers

Ollie sends gentle reminders before things get awkward — in your voice, on your schedule.

Coming soon

Summarize your week

"You shipped 4 invoices, got paid on 2, ₹1.2L outstanding from 3 clients." In six words.

A look inside

Clean. Calm. Out of your way.

HootZen

Dashboard

How Acme is doing.

Outstanding3 overdue

₹4,28,500

across 7 unpaid invoices

Collected

₹1.2L

Billed

₹8.4L

Invoices

42

Northwind$1,800
Acme Studios₹42,000
Globex Inc$2,400
Invoices
+ New
AllOverduePaid
N

Northwind Studio

INV-0042

Overdue$1,800
A

Acme Pvt Ltd

INV-0041

Paid₹42,000
G

Globex Inc

INV-0040

Sent$2,400
I

Initech

INV-0039

Sent₹18,500
S

Sirius Co

INV-0038

Paid$950

Dashboard

How Acme is doing.

Outstanding

₹4,28,500

across 7 unpaid invoices

Stat

₹1.2L

Stat

₹8.4L

Stat

42

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Common questions

The bit where we answer
before you have to ask.

Is HootZen really free?
Yes — free during open beta. No card, no seat counts, no module gates. After we exit beta we'll introduce paid tiers but founding users will keep the beta rate.
Is it actually GST-compliant?
Yes. HootZen generates Rule 46-compliant tax invoices with CGST/SGST/IGST splits, place-of-supply codes, LUT export declarations for zero-rated supply, and INR-in-words on every PDF.
Can I send invoices to clients overseas?
Yes. Multi-currency support (USD, EUR, INR, GBP and more), exchange rate snapshots per payment, LUT export bond declarations on the PDF, and FIRC-ready records.
Do my customers need to sign up to view invoices?
No. Customers receive a public link or PDF — no login wall, no friction. They can pay directly without an account.
How is this different from Zoho Books or FreshBooks?
Zoho and FreshBooks are built for accountants and CFOs — they ship every feature any business could ever need. HootZen is built for the person actually sending invoices. We deliberately leave out warehousing, project budgeting, expense matrices and approval workflows. If you wished invoicing was just three screens, HootZen is for you.
What's Ollie?
Ollie is our owl mascot — and soon, an AI assistant baked into HootZen. He'll draft invoices from messages, chase late payers in your voice, and summarize your week. Coming in phases through 2026.
Where's my data stored? Is it secure?
HootZen runs on Vercel with a managed Postgres database in ap-southeast-1 (Singapore). Magic-link auth — no passwords to leak. We don't share data with third parties.
Can I export my data if I leave?
Always. Every invoice is downloadable as PDF, all customer + payment data exports as CSV, and we'll provide bulk exports on request.

Stop dreading invoices.
Start sending them.

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Free during beta · No card · No demo call