Does Invoice Simple limit how many invoices you can send?

From August 2025, users report Invoice Simple imposed monthly invoice caps, including on plans previously sold as unlimited, with some paid tiers reduced to as few as 3 invoices per month unless upgrading to a higher plan around $19.99/month.

Is Invoice Simple Australian?

No. Invoice Simple is a US-focused app with no Australian tax invoice format built in and no financial-year (July to June) framing.

What is a good Invoice Simple alternative for 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.

What happens to my invoices if I stop paying Invoice Simple?

Check this 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 the subscription is still active. The ATO expects a sole trader to be able to produce invoices for five years, and a cancelled subscription is not a record-keeping system.

How do I move from Invoice Simple to Dinkum Invoice?

There is no automatic import today, so be realistic about the job. Save your Invoice Simple 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. Carry on your invoice numbering from the last number you used so the sequence stays unbroken.

Does an Invoice Simple invoice meet Australian tax invoice requirements?

Check the PDF yourself rather than assuming. Business.gov.au's guidance on how to invoice sets out what a tax invoice must show: the words Tax Invoice, your business name and ABN, the issue date, a description of each item with quantity and price, and the GST amount. If you are not registered for GST the invoice should not say Tax Invoice and should show no GST.

Invoice Simple alternative for Australia: after the caps

In August 2025, Invoice Simple started capping invoices on plans people had bought as “unlimited”. Some paid users now report being limited to as few as 3 invoices a month unless they upgrade again. It’s also a US app: no Australian Tax Invoice heading, no ABN field, no July–June financial year framing. Here’s an alternative built for how Aussie sole traders actually work.

What Invoice Simple users are saying

★
“They recently reduced the number of invoices per month to THREE. That's PAID… Now they're pushing the subscription tiers by reducing offered services to existing users. Slimy.”
App Store review, May 2026

★★
“They keep going up on price… and now limit the amount of invoices you can send per month unless you update to a $19.99 a month plan. Unacceptable!”
App Store review, Jul 2026

★★
“The number of invoices I can write changed during my subscription and went from $100 to $200. Will not renew.”
App Store review, May 2026

All excerpts are public App Store reviews, quoted with their dates. Invoice Simple’s pricing and limits may have changed since; last checked August 2026.

Invoice Simple vs Dinkum Invoice

	Invoice Simple	Dinkum Invoice
Invoice limits	Monthly caps, applied retroactively to paid “unlimited” plans (per user reviews)	No caps, free or paid. Ever. Clause 2, in writing.
Price	Up to ~$19.99/mo for unlimited; users report mid-subscription changes	Free unlimited; $9/mo to save your details, locked for life
Australian Tax Invoices	US-built; generic invoices	“Tax Invoice” heading, ABN, per-item GST, correct rounding
What you type each time	Saved in the app once you are signed in	Free version: your details each time. $9 tier: business and client details saved, invoices kept
If you stop paying	History sits behind your login; export first, per user reviews	Our terms say your data is exportable any time and your archive stays readable if you leave
Moving your data across	Export your invoices as PDFs before you cancel	No automatic importer yet: enter your regular clients once, then they are saved

Invoice Simple is genuinely easy to use. That’s why the caps hurt so much. We’re keeping the 60-second invoice and removing the part where the deal changes underneath you: our seven-clause covenant (price lock, no caps, free archive after cancel, human support) lives on a public page with a changelog.

When staying with Invoice Simple 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 paying for the higher tier and your invoices already come out correct.
You rely on estimates, expense tracking or payment processing 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, or if you want an Australian Tax Invoice heading and ABN field without building your own template.

Before you cancel, get your records out

Do this while the subscription is still live, not after. The ATO, the Australian Taxation Office, 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.

Then cancel through the app store or account that actually bills you. A 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 business.gov.au’s “How to invoice” guidance 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, the goods and services tax. 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	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.
How to pay you	BSB, account number and a due date, so a customer is never left guessing 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. A wider field of invoice apps, with each vendor’s September 2026 price, is in our comparison of invoice apps for Australian tradies and sole traders.

Mistakes people make when they switch invoicing 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.
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.