The tool, in your browser
The money-owed list
One row per unpaid invoice. Put in the customer, the job, the amount and the day you invoiced, and this works out how long the money has been sitting, flags what’s overdue, and totals what you’re still owed. One glance tells you what to chase first.
Free, and it asks for nothing. No email, no account, no sign-up. What you type stays in this browser on this device.
Read this first
This list only knows about this browser. Nothing you type is sent to us and nothing syncs, so the phone and the shop computer each keep their own list — and anyone who opens this page on that computer can read your customers’ names and what they owe. Clearing your browsing data wipes it, and a new phone won’t bring it along. For the copy that has to last, and for the one the office works from, put the-money-owed-list.xlsx on the computer at the shop.
The list fills in right here in your browser. If this line stays put, JavaScript is off — the spreadsheet below does the same job.
How it gets used
- Add a row every time you send an invoice that isn’t paid yet.
- Set your own line — overdue after (days). Thirty is a plain starting point, not a rule.
- Once a week, tap Oldest first and walk the list out loud. Anything marked overdue gets worked first.
- Tick Paid the day the money lands. It drops out of the totals.
- Part-paid? Lower the amount to what’s left and leave it open — the total then shows what you’re still chasing.
Enter only what’s actually billable today. On commercial jobs a slice is held back until the end, and on bigger jobs you may have taken a deposit or a draw — those come out of your own contract, so don’t guess them.
Want it in a spreadsheet?
The same list as a spreadsheet
the-money-owed-list.xlsx is this list as a spreadsheet — same columns, same rules — for the computer at the shop. Two differences in the page’s favour: it has no twenty-row ceiling, and there’s no Status column to remember to set. The sheets ask for your email once; this page never does.
The play behind it — M6-01 Fifteen Minutes a Week on the Money You're Owed — is the fifteen minutes a week this list is for, and the sheet notes spell out every column and formula.