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<title>MonkeeTools changelog</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><description>Fixes and improvements to MonkeeTools, newest first.</description><language>en</language>
<item><title>[Improved] Post-download offer is the Brand Pack</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-30fc51bcfea8</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The download screen no longer asks for a $7 donation. At the moment of value it now offers the $19 Brand Pack: remove the MonkeeTools footer from every PDF forever and unlock the email finder, with one link to enter a license key if you already bought it. The offer hides once branding is removed.</description></item>
<item><title>[Improved] First visit gets straight to the invoice</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-41d94eafdc13</guid><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>New visitors land directly on the invoice form: the first-run popups are gone, and the setup questions now wait politely until after your first download. On phones, a Download PDF bar stays pinned to the bottom while you edit, so the finish line is always visible.</description></item>
<item><title>[Improved] Second invoice in one click</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-ae7fb2c3dc0c</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>History's Duplicate is now 'Invoice again,' and the post-download modal has a 'Bill this client again' button: same client, business, and payment setup, a fresh invoice number, today's dates, and blank line items for the new work. The paid flow points straight at it, so the second invoice starts here instead of from a blank form.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Client invoice views now invite the client in</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-7bb6dd61862a</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Every client-facing invoice view now carries a quiet card, 'Send your own invoices. No signup, no account, nothing uploaded,' plus the same attributed link on the quote signing page. Suppressed when the sender paid for brand removal. Also fixed a referral-attribution mismatch: page beacons sent the ?ref= value under a different field name than the dashboard read, so referrals may have been undercounted. The dashboard now counts both fields, including historical tagged visits where present.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Invoice pages built for the trades</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-1953f2d344b2</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>New landing pages for electricians, plumbers, HVAC techs, landscapers, and general contractors: trade-specific line items, the quote-to-invoice-to-paid workflow, and mobile-first language. Also in this pass: removing the last line item now tells you it was cleared instead of silently doing nothing, and returning users with saved profiles now count correctly in the funnel.</description></item>
<item><title>[Improved] Smoother first run: guided tour, better tool discovery, easier lookups</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-6638843619ac</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>New users get a &quot;Walk me through it&quot; button that spotlights each step of their first invoice, business to download. The Email finder and Client finder are now linked in the top nav on every tool page instead of hiding in the footer. Both finders also dropped the every-lookup checkbox: the human check now runs invisibly and only appears if something looks automated. And the client finder recognizes international phone numbers, not just US ones.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Clients can sign quotes right from the link</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-48bb7515c6e0</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>No more Docracy links: after downloading a quote you can create a signing link, and your client reviews and signs it on their own phone, no account, nothing uploaded. Their signature travels inside the link itself and comes back to you with a tamper-evident seal; open it to verify, mark the quote accepted, and download the signed PDF with the signature stamped in.</description></item>
<item><title>[Improved] Email finder: stricter sourcing, published success rate</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-93bffd10440c</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The finder no longer pulls emails from random pages that merely mention a name: it pins down the prospect's website first and only reads that site's own pages, so a stranger who shares your client's name can never show up. The page now states its measured success rate honestly: 41% when you provide the website (blind-tested on 17 freelancer sites, September 2026).</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Client finder: contact sheets for your next client</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-2c2745d6dcd1</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A free discovery tool at /client-finder/: type in a business name and get a contact sheet with their website, published email addresses, phone numbers, key people, and social profiles. Everything is pulled from public pages at lookup time, never guessed, three lookups a day, nothing stored.</description></item>
<item><title>[Improved] Settings screen, cleaned up</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-927260c2a396</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The Settings modal got a full declutter pass: payment methods are stated as optional once instead of seven times, bank account and routing collapse into one expandable row, the star's job is explained in plain words, and the two supporter options (the $7 logo unlock and the $19 Brand Pack) now sit together in one Supporter perks section instead of being split across the page.</description></item>
<item><title>[Improved] Invoice design defaults move to Settings</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-7b5047c5a295</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Invoice accent and design now live in Settings under Defaults for new invoices, matching quotes. They carry across every invoice you generate instead of resetting to Terracotta and Classic each time, and they are remembered on the device with the rest of the business profile.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Wise account signup hint in Settings</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-92d3ce7ca000</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The Wise payment field in Settings now shows a signup link when it is empty: no Wise account yet, create one through our affiliate link, described as the cheapest way to get paid by clients abroad. The line hides once you enter your own Wise details, and the client-facing invoice is unchanged.</description></item>
<item><title>[Fixed] Invoice history popup opens again</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-9beb48d57855</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The history button (and the Review button on the amount-owed banner) silently did nothing because the history popup was trapped inside the download-confirmation popup's markup, so it could never appear. The popup is now a proper top-level dialog, and it opens even if a saved recurring invoice has corrupt data.</description></item>
<item><title>[Improved] G2 5/5 proof across the site, plus a one-time review nudge</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-7dfa664978d9</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The footer G2 badge now carries gold 5-star 5/5 treatment linking to our G2 reviews page. The /freelancers/ customer stories replaced the duplicate Alejandro card with Mahad's 5/5 G2 review calling out the real-time PDF preview, and the intro line is now count-agnostic. The homepage hero and the Square, Wave, and Zoho comparison pages now carry a subtle 'Rated 5/5 on G2 by validated reviewers' line linking to the G2 reviews page. After an invoice download completes, the done modal shows a one-time dismissible line inviting a G2 review, shown at most once ever and never blocking the download.</description></item>
<item><title>[Improved] Pay now button names the payment provider, and the client view finally has one</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-ec3956802314</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The Pay now button now says where the money goes (Pay now with Wise, Stripe, or PayPal) in the editor preview, the PDF, and the client view. The client view was missing the button entirely unless the invoice was overdue; it now shows whenever you add a payment link.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Our first G2 review: 5 out of 5</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-e4903b573ac9</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A validated reviewer gave MonkeeTools 5/5 on G2 (&quot;Effortless, Clean, and Efficient, No Sign-Up Needed!&quot;), and the quote now leads the customer stories on /freelancers/ with a link to the live review.</description></item>
<item><title>[Fixed] Saved business profile, banking, and industry no longer dropped on reload</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-cf1e9558313e</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A startup crash was aborting the page before your saved details loaded, so reloads came back blank even though everything was stored on your device. Also fixed: onboarding now records the role you pick, skipping the payment-link step keeps your role, and reopening your last invoice no longer loses the bank-details toggle. Nothing for you to do; it just works now.</description></item>
<item><title>[Improved] Prefill links land on your invoice, with a plain-English banner</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-f07014b8cdca</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Opening a prefilled invoice link now shows a banner naming it as yours (&quot;We made a sample invoice for ...&quot;) and takes you straight to it, instead of dropping you at the top of the page. Built for outreach gift links so first-time recipients see the invoice, not the marketing hero.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Brand Pack: one $19 key unlocks the email finder and removes PDF footers</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-4064e0e2ba5f</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The email finder now runs on a $19 one-time Brand Pack license key: the same key that removes the MonkeeTools footer from document PDFs. No account, no login; enter it once per device and it is re-verified on every lookup.</description></item>
<item><title>[Improved] Invoice link previews look like invoices</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-446f6927315e</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>When a client link is shared in chat, the preview now shows an invoice card instead of the generic MonkeeTools promo image.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] One-click short links for client invoices</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-e1b616f431ca</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The &quot;Shorten client link&quot; button now creates a short link (about 62 characters) and copies it to your clipboard automatically. No new tabs, no manual copying. Turn on &quot;Always shorten client links&quot; in Settings to make every client link short by default. Short links are hosted on our own server, no third party sees them, and they expire after 30 days.</description></item>
<item><title>[Improved] Client links are shorter, payment buttons are tappable</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-ef0b7a5d8ed5</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The link you send a client is now compressed (noticeably shorter on larger invoices), so it no longer looks like a wall of text in a message. The Venmo, Cash App, and Wise buttons on the client invoice are now tappable and open the right payment page. Links you already sent keep working.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Email finder: reach the client who went quiet</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-4866e93dcad6</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>New free tool at /email-finder/. Give it a name and, if you have it, their website, and it surfaces only email addresses the person or company actually published, on their own site or a page about them. Never guesses, never stores your searches, 3 lookups a day. Built for one job: getting an unpaid invoice in front of someone who can pay it.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Get quotes signed</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-84fb6fe4a74d</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The quote download screen now offers a one-click handoff to Docracy: free e-signing with no account, documents delete themselves after 9 days. Your quote is still built entirely in your browser; the handoff says plainly that collecting a signature means the document leaves your browser.</description></item>
<item><title>[Improved] About page, rewritten around getting paid</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-57bb15934af2</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The team photos moved to the top of the page, the story now centers on getting paid instead of paperwork, and both bios got real backgrounds: Brian's path from sales engineering to founding a bootstrapped LinkedIn growth business, and Monkee's job description as CEO.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Get-paid toolkit: payable invoices, automatic chasing, paid loop</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-086b46045b16</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Downloading an invoice now checks it has a way to pay (payment link, bank, Zelle, Venmo, Cash App, or Wise) and offers to add one first; the QR code is bigger for scanning. Overdue invoices trigger a nudge banner with a snooze option and a one-tap reminder composer (email, SMS, or WhatsApp), and the home screen shows what you are owed. Long payment terms get a gentle coaching hint, a one-tap late-fee clause feeds computed fees into firm reminders, quotes can ask for a 50% deposit and convert to invoices in one tap, and marking paid now stamps the date, totals what you collected this month, and offers a receipt.</description></item>
<item><title>[Improved] Payment link, captured at onboarding</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-65783e7088ca</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>First run now asks “How do clients pay you?” as an optional, skippable step, so the Pay now button and QR code are on from the very first invoice. There is also a quick-entry payment-link field right in the invoice flow. The link is only remembered on the device if the visitor opts into Remember on this device.</description></item>
<item><title>[Improved] Setup comes first for new visitors</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-b07106ee1c5c</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>First-time visitors now land on setup, and the workflow rail keeps Set up marked as the current step until the essentials exist: business name, a way to get paid, and one client. Once setup is done the rail follows the page again.</description></item>
<item><title>[Improved] Just get paid: the site now says what it is for</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-7c0b12df72b6</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Headlines across the site now lead with getting paid: the homepage opens “Just get paid. No account. No upload.”, the freelancers and tools pages carry the same idea, and onboarding is kickered “Let’s get you paid”. Titles and descriptions lead with getting paid faster, not with free.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Guided workflow: setup to paid</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-26b264d43e2b</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The six tools are now organized around how freelancers actually work: a setup-first pipeline (Set up, Quote, Invoice, Chase, Paid) with per-page next-step bars, and the rest of the toolkit tucked into an add-as-you-need row. First visits ask what you do and your biggest headache to tune recommendations; skipping takes you straight to the tools and the choice is remembered.</description></item>
<item><title>[Fixed] Payment block now renders with a payment link set</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-79e677a0c9fd</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Setting a payment link used to silently kill the invoice preview's payment section: no Pay now button, no QR code, no payment-method chips, and the per-invoice toggles stayed disabled. The render order is fixed, the toggles now enable and default on when a handle is saved, and the page carries a built-in ?selftest=pay regression check so it can't happen again.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Remove MonkeeTools branding</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-6cc8b444ff3f</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>One $19 payment removes the MonkeeTools footer from every PDF you generate, across all six document tools, forever. Pay from any tool's Settings or the unlock page, enter your license key, done. No account, no signup, nothing uploaded.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Guide clusters: 18 new in-depth guides</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-7eaca039b493</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The blog grew six full guide clusters: getting paid, invoice fundamentals, client billing, invoice anatomy, payment terms, and deposits, milestones, and retainers. Eighteen substantial articles, each interlinked with its pillar guide, all written for freelancers who want to get paid without the runaround.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Agent prefill for receipts, credit notes, and packing slips</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-ef5fc30b8043</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>AI assistants can now fill in receipts, credit notes, and packing slips from links, joining invoices and quotes. The /agents/ kit documents every parameter, and the link checker validates all five document routes before an agent sends a link.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Quote accent and design now live in Settings</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-e55fb15b7601</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Quotes respect your saved defaults: accent and design moved into Settings under Defaults for new quotes, and the Clear button restores them instead of resetting to a hardcoded look. The Minimal and Modern design options, which never worked, now apply correctly.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Four new document generators: receipts, credit notes, timesheets, packing slips</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-f2ca46037514</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The document family is now four working generators on the same shell as the invoice and quote tools: RCP-numbered receipts with payment method and date paid, CN-numbered credit notes with reason codes and negative amounts, weekly timesheets with hourly rates and one-click send-to-invoice, and PS-numbered packing slips with SKU tables, package count, and weight. All share your business profile and client list, keep their own numbering and histories, and download as PDFs with the unified footer.</description></item>
<item><title>[Improved] Private by construction, front and center</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-0131d7b4c949</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The privacy claim now leads the marketing: a new homepage section explains that everything runs in your browser, nothing is uploaded, and your data never leaves your device. Privacy here is not a policy, it is the architecture. The same thread runs through the freelancers, agents, about, and tools pages.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Invoice Ninja alternative page</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-d47d087e9cf6</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>An honest comparison with Invoice Ninja: five-client free ceiling versus unlimited clients, $14/month Pro, 40+ payment gateways, and where Invoice Ninja's client portal and expense tracking are genuinely stronger.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] AI agent handoff, upgraded</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-991b16eb0b42</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The agents page now ships a copy-paste agent prompt kit, three verified prefill-link examples, and a link checker that warns about invalid discount types, non-HTTPS payment links, and unknown templates. The full parameter reference lives in llms.txt.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Evergreen guide clusters</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-c93ebb344330</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The blog is now three evergreen clusters, Getting paid, Invoice fundamentals, and Client billing, plus three cornerstone guides: Invoice anatomy, Payment terms, and Deposits, milestones, and retainers. Copy-paste templates throughout, no email gates.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Document-type pages and a working quote generator</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-bd151f11a733</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Five new pages explain the paperwork around invoices: receipts, credit notes, timesheets, and packing slips, each with a real example, FAQs, and honest invoice cross-links. The quote generator is fully working: QUO numbering, valid-until dates, live preview, quote history, and one-click PDF, with no account and nothing uploaded. Your business details carry over from the invoice generator.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Preferred payment method</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-7bdb1ac5e2bd</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Tap the star next to a payment method in Settings to mark it as preferred. It then appears first with a PREFERRED tag on the invoice preview, the client view, and the PDF. Tap the star again to unset it. Works with Zelle, Venmo, Cash App, Wise, and your custom payment link.</description></item>
<item><title>[Improved] Real payment brand logos</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-6dafbd9ed5ed</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Payment chips now show the actual Zelle, Venmo, Cash App, and Wise brand marks instead of generic icons, the freelancers page hero carries a payment badge row, and the product screenshot shows the logos on a real invoice.</description></item>
<item><title>[Fixed] Small-screen polish</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-bc10dd2eeb7c</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The header navigation now wraps into two clean rows on phones instead of clipping Settings off the screen edge, and the freelancers hero stat numbers (like the 3 in 3 steps) render at full size on mobile.</description></item>
<item><title>[Improved] Freelancers page, rebuilt</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-fce8d025d34b</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The hero now shows the actual tool behind the headline, a screenshot of the real invoice preview, with floating badges for the three wow moments (live preview, 3-step repeat, remembers you). The copy was rewritten around the same no-signup promise, the bento card now shows off Zelle, Venmo, Cash App, and Wise as tap-to-pay chips, and the monkey Easter egg moved here too.</description></item>
<item><title>[Improved] Homepage hero, rebuilt</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-a6d9c3fe40a5</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>New headline, No account. No upload. Just get paid., with copy that finally says one thing once: the badge promises no signup, the subhead explains the remembering, and four bullets name real features (duplicate any invoice, client autocomplete, paid/unpaid tracking, PDF in one click). And there is a monkey hiding behind the badge. Click him.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] A welcome-back hero for returning users</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-da653b29d4d7</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>If this device remembers you, the homepage now greets you by business name and names your last invoice, with one-click buttons to repeat it or start fresh. New visitors still see the standard hero.</description></item>
<item><title>[Improved] Customer stories, properly told</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-ca9e9253797f</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The homepage now carries a real customer quote under the headline. The /freelancers/ page turned its quote wall into named stories: Aaron and the junk-hauling template his business inspired, Alejandro as our first real external user who invoiced Brian $300 through the tool, and Lauren Houghton whose feedback sharpened the whole pitch.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Wise is now a first-class payment method</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-15ee4e33c065</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Wise is now a selectable payment method: save your Wise request link or account email in Settings, then tick the Wise chip on any invoice just like Zelle, Venmo, or Cash App. If you save a Wise request link, the Wise chip becomes a tap-to-pay link your client can use directly. It prints as a Wise chip in the PDF and rides along on client links too. Good for international clients, since Wise receives money like a local in 22 currencies.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Public product roadmap</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-304e17eb4633</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The product roadmap is now a live page at /roadmap/, driven by a data file and tied to the feedback board: every roadmap item links to its vote thread, and priorities are voted on as fb-036. Includes an optional, skippable guided walkthrough of settings completion as a candidate.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Optional 60-second setup tour</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-ac50020a0c80</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>New here? A guided tour now walks you through Settings once: your business details, ways to get paid, and the remember-on-this-device choice. It never starts on its own and never nags. Find it under the headline, or replay it anytime in Settings.</description></item>
<item><title>[Improved] Payment section overhaul</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-5cce5fa0abdc</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The per-invoice payment toggles are now logo cards (Zelle, Venmo, Cash App, bank) in one equal-sized grid instead of a wrapping checkbox strip, and a grayed-out toggle now says exactly what's missing with a single Add in Settings link. On the invoice itself, enabled methods render as a compact badge row with each provider's mark, QR code and Pay now on the left, Or pay directly with chips in a column on the right, full-width below the totals. Bank transfer stays off until both numbers are saved. Settings now states plainly whether your entries are saved, and the Settings button reads Save on this device when remembering is off. No logo? Your initials appear as a branded monogram, Total due is a bold filled bar, and section labels get letterspaced polish.</description></item>
<item><title>[Improved] Smarter downloads: validation and instant edits</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-104f59bb0f5d</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Hitting Download PDF with a missing business name, client name, or line item no longer just toasts: the exact fields glow red, Settings opens when your business name is the gap, and the message says what's missing. The post-download screen has an Edit this invoice button that drops you straight back into the editor with everything intact.</description></item>
<item><title>[Improved] Spreadsheet-style line items</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-2fbb50bd6ca5</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>One header row (Item, Qty, Rate, Amount) instead of a label on every field, description gets the wide column, every row shows its amount as you type, and a fresh blank row appears the moment you start typing in the last one. Details tuck behind a quiet Add details link.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Your own reference labels</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-3cce1ea4988e</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Two new optional fields in Invoice details let you name your own reference label (PO number, contract, project code, whatever your client calls it) and its value. It prints on the invoice exactly as you typed it, in the preview, the PDF, and the client link. The label is remembered as a preference; the value is per invoice.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Mark as paid when you download</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-92fdb5a29c42</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A Mark as paid checkbox sits next to the download button. Tick it and the invoice lands in your on-device history already paid, and the money overview counts it. Unticked invoices still save as unpaid, as before.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Scan-to-pay QR code</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-eca33fd4f715</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>When you add a payment link, the invoice now carries a QR code beside the Pay now button, in the preview and printed in the PDF. Clients can scan it from the paper or screen to pay. Generated entirely on your device; nothing is uploaded or fetched.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Payment reminder composer</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-9f1b1d54619f</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The Remind button on overdue invoices now opens a composer: pick a polite, firm, or final tone, edit the pre-filled draft (client, invoice, amount, days overdue, client link, payment link), then send from your own email app, or fire a Text client button with an SMS-length version and the client number prefilled.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Community funds: App Store and plushie</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-0d8efae7ccea</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Two community funds in the supporter section: chip in toward Apple's $99/year developer fee and we'll ship a real App Store app when it's covered, or put ‘plushie’ in the notes and help fund the first manufacturing run of a real Monkee plushie, one shipped to every contributor.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Cross-device transfer code</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-033a2fa246c8</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Send your business profile and client list to another device with a copy-paste code. No account, no sync server. Full invoice history still travels with the backup file.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Import from CSV and your website</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-0cd297bbcee8</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Paste rows from a spreadsheet or time tracker straight into the invoice, bring a Square customer export into your client list, or use the bookmarklet to pull your business name, contact details, and logo from your own site. Nothing leaves your browser.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Text and email your invoice to your client</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-755b39646ddc</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>After download, fire off the invoice in one tap: the Text client button opens your messaging app with the number and invoice text ready, and the Email client button opens your email app with the client link, amount, due date, and payment link prefilled. Client links can carry an overdue banner with days late and a Pay now button.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Notify me when paid</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-d735bf7d2d63</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Optional per-invoice toggle adds an I've paid button to the client link. The client taps it and their own email or text app opens with a prefilled note to you, including a confirm link that marks the invoice paid in your tracker when you open it. Uses the email in Your contact details. Nothing is detected or verified by us, and the email travels only inside the link fragment.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] More ways to pay: Zelle, Venmo, Cash App, bank transfer</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-28d1ffc3cdb2</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Save your Zelle, Venmo, and Cash App handles plus account and routing numbers once in your business profile, then tick which ones print on each invoice. They render as one Ways to pay block in the live preview, all three PDF designs, and the client view, alongside the Pay now button. Handles stay on your device. The payment-link field links straight to Stripe's payment-link creation page and remembers what you paste.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Trade starter invoices</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-94fb1ef209f1</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Start from a trade template and get realistic line items and payment terms for junk hauling, landscaping, outside sales, general contractor, or concrete contractor work. Everything stays editable, and your saved business profile is never overwritten.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Logo branding for supporters</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-582f8b690bef</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Chip in $7 to unlock your business logo on invoices: upload it in Settings, see it in the preview at up to 90px tall, and it prints on all three PDF designs. Stored only in this browser; the donor unlock runs on the honor system since there is no backend to check receipts.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Three invoice designs: Classic, Minimal, Modern</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-d2b067eeee9e</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Pick a design for every invoice from a segmented control. Classic is the original look, Minimal is black and white with quiet thin rules, Modern leads with the terracotta header. The on-screen preview follows your choice, and the design travels with shared links, history duplicates, and backups.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Payment reminders</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-381a369b6cdc</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Overdue invoices show a Remind button that drafts a polite nudge email with the amount, due date, and your payment link, and an on-load banner flags your overdue total.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Recurring invoices</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-3a73f6b54a1e</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Save any downloaded invoice as a monthly recurring template. MonkeeTools nudges you when the next one is due and generates it in one click with a fresh number and dates. All on-device, nothing uploaded. Templates render in History, survive backup and restore, and the /tools/ card now correctly says Live.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] No-login toolkit for freelancers</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-10db9b2e1048</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A hand-verified collection of free no-login tools that grew from 21 to 42 across 12 categories (contracts, time tracking, file sharing, PDFs, scheduling, more), with a public listing bar, real self-hosted logos on every card, sticky search and category filters, and a sealed submission form so makers can submit their own tools. A clearly-marked ‘Worth the signup’ shelf lists the few login-required tools we run MonkeeTools on and vouch for. Two tools that proved too small to vouch for were removed. Listing is free forever.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Feedback board: public, sealed, and auditable</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-0bdb94ee6fe6</guid><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Every suggestion and vote is published anonymously on the /feedback/ board, with our replies, permalinks, and one-level threads. New suggestions stay private until a human approves them. Everything is encrypted in your browser (RSA-OAEP + AES-GCM) before it leaves, and /privacy/ documents exactly what the site sends, with steps to verify it yourself.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Offline copy: the whole tool as one HTML file</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-a833e5796392</guid><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>A fully self-contained download of the invoice generator is linked in the footer. One file, no connection needed, all data still stays in the browser.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Backup, restore, and CSV export</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-4bdf7af1ec06</guid><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>The History dialog has Download backup (a JSON file with your business profile, saved clients, and invoice history) and Restore from backup, with validation and confirmation before overwriting. Plus Export CSV: invoice number, issue date, client, total, currency, paid status, and due date, one row per invoice. Your data is portable.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Client invoice view</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-a0aeeaa791f8</guid><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Share a clean read-only invoice page (/view/) with your client: Download PDF, Duplicate in editor, and Create your own free invoice. The invoice travels inside the link itself, nothing is uploaded anywhere. Empty sections, zero Discount and Tax rows, and malformed values are all hidden so clients never see clutter or NaN amounts.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Payment tracking: payment links and paid/unpaid status</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-642803b520ed</guid><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Add your own payment link (e.g. a Stripe payment link) to an invoice and the PDF gets a clickable Pay now button. Invoice history now tracks paid vs unpaid per invoice, shows total outstanding and overdue invoices, all stored on your device only. Your money never touches our servers because there are none.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] Agent mode: pre-fill invoices from a link</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-bada919ad76b</guid><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Any software agent can build an invoice by opening a link with parameters in the URL fragment. The fragment never touches a server, the invoice assembles itself client-side, ready to review. /agents/ has the full story: a live example, copy-paste instructions, the parameter reference, a client-side link checker, tested examples, and a machine-readable /llms.txt.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] The invoice app that remembers you, no account needed</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-9a23ba3011bd</guid><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Your business details, clients, and invoice history are now saved on your device. Come back and your business is pre-filled, clients autocomplete, and any past invoice can be duplicated with one click. Everything stays in this browser, nothing is uploaded.</description></item>
<item><title>[New] MonkeeTools launched</title><link>https://monkeetools.pages.dev/</link><guid>monkeetools-ae69c7d48b2c</guid><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><description>Free invoice generator for freelancers: live totals, multi-currency, tax and discount, PDF download. No account, no cookies — your invoice data never leaves your browser.</description></item>
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