Is Bookipi still free?

Partly. As at September 2026 Bookipi's own pricing page lists a Free plan capped at 3 invoices a month, a Starter plan at $9.99 a month or $91.20 a year, and a Professional plan at $52 a month, plus 10% GST for Australian users. Users who joined when it was marketed as free forever report hitting a paywall from 2024 onwards, and some report a yearly price rise in 2026.

What happens to my old invoices if I stop paying?

Check that before you cancel anything, in any app. The safe move is to download a PDF of every invoice you have sent, plus your client list and the last invoice number you used, while your subscription is still active. A read-only window after you stop paying is a courtesy, not a record-keeping system, and the ATO expects you to be able to produce your invoices for five years.

How do I move off Bookipi without retyping everything?

There is no automatic import into Dinkum Invoice today, so be realistic about the job. Save your Bookipi invoices as PDFs for your records, then enter your regular clients once in the $9 a month tier and they are saved for next time. Pick up your invoice numbering from the last number you used so the sequence stays unbroken.

What is a good Bookipi alternative in Australia?

Dinkum Invoice is a free tax invoice generator built for Australian sole traders: no account, no invoice cap, and it produces a correct Tax Invoice or a no-GST Invoice depending on whether you are registered. The free version does not remember anything, so you enter your details each time. The $9 a month tier saves your business and client details and keeps your invoices. If you send three invoices a month and like Bookipi, staying put is a fair answer.

Does a Bookipi invoice meet Australian tax invoice requirements?

Check the PDF yourself rather than assuming, and do this with any invoice app. The ATO's Tax invoices page sets out what the document has to show: the words Tax Invoice, your business name and ABN, the date, a description of each item with quantity and price, and the GST either per line or as a statement that the total includes GST. If you are not registered for GST the invoice should not say Tax Invoice and should show no GST.

Is there a free invoice app with no invoice cap in Australia?

Our free tax invoice generator has no cap and needs no account, with the trade-off that it does not save your details between invoices. Other free plans vary and the limits change: check the vendor's own pricing page on the day, and look at what happens to your history if you stop paying, before you build years of records inside an app.

Looking for a Bookipi alternative after the paywall?

Bookipi built five years of goodwill on “free forever”, then moved invoicing behind a paywall. As at September 2026 its own pricing page caps the free plan at 3 invoices a month, with paid plans from $9.99 a month plus GST. Users quoted below report higher prices before that. Your invoice history sits on the other side of whatever the price is this year. Here’s the honest way out.

What Bookipi users are saying

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“I've used this app for 5 years for free, now they've paywalled it… I'm switching to something else.”
App Store review, Apr 2025

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“It is unfortunate to see an app promote 'free' all over their app page for it to ask for payment… after creating three invoices.”
App Store review, Dec 2024

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“Costs too much for what you get and also recently upped the yearly subscription by $100. I won't be getting it again.”
App Store review, Jun 2026

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“Be ware, they will hit you up with the $199.99 subscription after setting up the app.”
App Store review, May 2025

All excerpts are public App Store reviews, quoted with their dates. Bookipi’s pricing has changed more than once; prices on this page were checked on Bookipi’s pricing page in September 2026.

Bookipi vs Dinkum Invoice

	Bookipi	Dinkum Invoice
Free tier	Capped at 3 invoices a month (Bookipi pricing page, Sep 2026)	Free generator: no cap, no account, no card
Paid price	Starter $9.99/mo, Professional $52/mo, plus GST (Sep 2026); users report higher prices in earlier years	$9/mo, locked for life the day you subscribe
What you type each time	Saved in the app on a paid plan	Free version: your details each time. $9 tier: business and client details saved, invoices kept
Not registered for GST	Check the PDF heading and totals before you send	Pick “not registered” and it drops the GST line and the Tax Invoice heading
If you stop paying	Export first: reviewers describe invoicing stopping at the cap	Our terms say your data is exportable any time and your archive stays readable if you leave
Moving your data across	Save your invoices as PDFs before you go	No automatic importer yet: clients are entered once, then saved

We’re not going to promise “free forever”, because that’s the exact lie that got Bookipi users here. The free generator is uncapped because free users are our word-of-mouth, and the business runs on the optional $9 tier. Both promises are written into a public covenant with a changelog, not a marketing page. The wider field, with each vendor’s September 2026 price, is in our comparison of invoice apps for Australian tradies and sole traders.

When staying on Bookipi is the right call

Switching apps costs you an evening, so it is worth being honest about when it is not worth it. Stay where you are if any of these sound like you:

You send three invoices a month or fewer, so the free cap never bites.
You are happy with the Starter price and your invoices already come out correct.
You lean on estimates, receipts, payroll or payment links that a plain invoice tool does not do.
You have years of history in there and no reason to move it.

Move if the cap is now the thing deciding when you invoice, if the yearly renewal has climbed past what an invoice app is worth to you, or if you are paying mainly to keep looking at invoices you have already sent.

Before you stop paying, get your records out

Do this while the subscription is still live, not after. The ATO expects a sole trader to keep business records for five years, and “it was in an app I cancelled” is not a record.

Every invoice as a PDF. Sent, paid and unpaid. Save them in one folder per financial year.
Your client list. Names, addresses, ABNs, emails and any purchase order references.
The last invoice number you used. Your numbering should carry on unbroken into the next tool.
Anything still unpaid. Keep chasing those from the old records until the money lands.
Your logo and payment details. BSB, account number, terms wording, the lot.

Then cancel through the app store or account that actually bills you. An app subscription bought through the App Store or Google Play is cancelled there, not by deleting the app.

What your next invoice has to show

Whichever tool you land on, check the first PDF against the ATO’s Tax invoices page rather than trusting the template. These are the parts people get wrong when they switch apps:

On the invoice	Why it matters
The right heading	“Tax Invoice” only if you are registered for GST. If you are not registered, it is an “Invoice” with no GST line.
Your business name and ABN	An ABN is an Australian Business Number, the 11-digit identifier for your business. Leave it off an invoice to another business and the payer may have to withhold tax from your payment.
Date and invoice number	A clean sequence is what makes a year of records defensible.
Each item described	What you did, the quantity or hours, and the price. Labour and materials on separate lines.
GST shown properly	GST is the goods and services tax, 10% added to most sales by businesses registered for it. Show it per line or state that the total includes GST. Those figures are what you carry into your BAS, the Business Activity Statement registered businesses lodge to report GST.
When a tax invoice is required	Business.gov.au’s “How to invoice” page says a GST-registered business must give a tax invoice within 28 days whenever a customer asks for one, and always for a taxable sale over $82.50 including GST. A new app is a common time to fall behind on this, so check it does not need chasing up separately.
Buyer’s identity on larger sales	For sales of $1,000 or more, business.gov.au says the tax invoice also has to show the buyer’s identity or ABN. Check your new app has a field for it before you send an invoice that size.
How to pay you	BSB, account number and a due date. Plenty of late payments are just a customer not knowing where to send the money.

You can produce one right now in the browser with the free tax invoice generator, or start from the sole trader invoice template, which comes as a Tax Invoice and as a no-GST version. If you are under the threshold and not registered, the wording rules are set out in invoicing without GST in Australia.

Mistakes people make when they jump apps

Restarting the invoice numbers at 1. Two invoices with the same number in one financial year is a mess you will be untangling at tax time.
Leaving the old app without exporting. The history is the part you cannot rebuild.
Carrying the GST setting across wrongly. If you registered part way through the year, older invoices and new ones will not look the same, and that is correct.
Trusting the new template. Read the first PDF line by line. Heading, ABN, GST, bank details.
Deleting the app to cancel. The subscription keeps billing until you cancel it where you bought it.