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Python Automation for Freelancers: Build a Complete Billing System

DEV Community·Brad·19 days ago
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Running a freelance business means drowning in billing admin: creating invoices, tracking payments, sending reminders. Here's how to automate the entire pipeline with Python. The Problem Manual billing wastes 3-5 hours per week for most freelancers. That's 150-250 hours per year — at $75/hour billing rate, that's $11,000-$18,000 of lost revenue potential. Step 1: Invoice Generation from reportlab.platypus import SimpleDocTemplate , Paragraph , Table , TableStyle from reportlab.lib.styles import getSampleStyleSheet from reportlab.lib import colors import datetime def generate_invoice ( client_name , items , invoice_num ): doc = SimpleDocTemplate ( f " invoice_ { invoice_num } .pdf " ) styles = getSampleStyleSheet () story = [] story . append ( Paragraph ( f " INVOICE # { invoice_num } " , styles [ " Title " ])) story . append ( Paragraph ( f " Date: { str ( datetime . date .…

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