Invoicing software for financial advisor owners

Financial advisor invoicing software

Your advisory fee is arithmetic nobody argues with until forty households need it in the same week. Smarfle builds each document from the household record with the working shown and the disclosures already attached, so nothing has to be assembled twice.

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Smarfle · Financial Advisor Invoice

Invoice

INV-00142

Issued recently

Sent · awaiting payment

Bill to

Sarah Johnson

123 Oak Street, Orlando FL 32801

Labor. 2.5 hours @ $95/hr

$237.50

Parts. Replacement components

$142.00

Service call · diagnostic

$80.00
Total$459.50
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Why generic invoicing software fails financial advisor owners

Generic invoicing tools weren’t built for financial advisor. Smarfle was.

Generic invoicing software

What everyone else gives you

  • Calculating a quarter of fees by hand produces errors at scale
  • Project fees are collected weeks after the plan was delivered
  • Required disclosures are sent separately from the fee

Smarfle for financial advisor

Built for your actual workflow

  • Enter the quarter's figure and the fee and its document are produced from it
  • The document is raised on completion and goes out with a way to pay
  • A document uploaded to the client travels with the bill automatically
Step-by-step

How financial advisor invoicing works in Smarfle

From the first touch to the closed loop. No missing pieces.

  1. 1

    Fee basis held on the client record

    The agreed rate and how it is calculated sit on the client, so quarter end is a run rather than forty separate calculations.

  2. 2

    Advisory fee invoiced with the calculation shown

    The document shows how the number was reached, which is both what the client expects and what keeps the conversation short.

  3. 3

    Project work invoiced at completion

    A financial plan bills when it is delivered rather than being held to the next quarterly cycle, which is when the client values it most.

  4. 4

    Required disclosures attached to the invoice

    The documents that must accompany a fee travel with it, so compliance is part of sending rather than a separate task afterwards.

  5. 5

    Fee history stays on the client record

    Every invoice and payment sits against the client, so an annual review has the fee history in the same place as everything else.

  6. 6

    Payment link where the client pays directly

    For fees not deducted from an account, the invoice carries its own way to be paid rather than relying on a transfer the client has to initiate.

Where financial advisor invoicing breaks down

The friction every financial advisor owner recognizes.

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The fee is arithmetic done forty times

A percentage of a balance is straightforward once. Across a whole book at quarter end it is forty separate calculations, done under time pressure by somebody who also has meetings that week.

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Project work has no natural billing moment

A financial plan is delivered and then it sits. Nothing in the calendar forces the fee, so it gets raised whenever somebody notices, usually well after the household stopped thinking about it.

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Disclosures travel separately from the fee

Whoever raises the fee and whoever sends the required paperwork are rarely the same person on the same day, which turns an obligation into an afterthought.

The math for financial advisor owners

Fee maths done by hand

One basis-point calculation is trivial and forty of them inside a week is not. Raise each from the household record with the arithmetic shown, bill project work as it completes rather than hoarding it for quarter end, and keep the disclosures on the document they belong to.

60

Plan pieces a year

Few

Raised at completion

Most

Waiting on quarter end

Based on typical financial advisor operations. Your numbers may vary.

Financial advisor invoicing software questions

Partly. You supply the figure and the document is built around it. There is no custodial link, nothing reads a balance and nothing debits an account, so the number itself has to come from wherever you hold it today.
Yes, and it is worth doing. A household that can see how a figure was reached asks fewer questions, and the ones they do ask are shorter.
Yes, from the client record at delivery rather than waiting for a quarterly cycle. That is the moment the work is most obviously worth what you charged for it.
Yes, attached to the same send. It turns compliance into part of sending the document rather than a second task somebody has to remember afterwards.
No. Taking money straight from an account is something your custodian does. Smarfle raises and delivers the charge with a route to settle it, which covers the planning and project work custodians never touch.

Moving your financial advisor invoicing software off another tool?

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