For small firms that invoice on terms
The morning queue that turns ‘I’ll pay Friday’ into paid.
Promised reads your open invoices, chases them inside rules you set, and writes down every promise your customers actually make. You stop writing awkward reminders, and your morning starts with only the exceptions that truly need you.
Set up in minutes. Connect QuickBooks Online, Xero or Stripe, or import any CSV. No password to remember: we email you a sign-in link.
Morning queueSample
Wednesday · 31 open invoices
Outstanding
$33,003.02
Harbor Legal Group
Broken promiseINV-1055 · Promised to pay Nov 4. It did not arrive.
$5,400.00Blue Door Realty
OverdueINV-2001 · Reminder sent with your payment link
Amount due
$1,875.50
Acme Builders LLC
Promised for FridayINV-1042 · Said on Tuesday: paying Friday.
$4,100.00Metro Facilities Group
PaidINV-1031 · Paid in full yesterday
$3,675.004 need you today · 17 handled by Promised
Open your queueRead-only connections. Revoke them any time, from the provider’s own page.
Money never passes through Promised. Customers pay you, on your own payment page.
Deleted in full on request. Your data is never sold and never used to train AI.
How it works
Three steps, then your mornings change
No implementation project, no new habits for your customers. Promised fits around the tools you already bill from.
1
Connect or import
Link QuickBooks Online, Xero or Stripe in minutes, or import any CSV from any system at all. Your open invoices arrive neat: who owes what, since when, and what has already been said.
2
Promised chases, inside your rules
Reminders go out from your firm, in your name, on the schedule and tone you approve. Replies are read, and every “I will pay Friday” is logged with the date that was actually promised.
3
You handle only the exceptions
A broken promise, a dispute, a question nobody routine should answer: those land in your morning queue with the evidence attached. Everything else simply gets paid.
The tour
See it work in 90 seconds
A full walk through the queue, a promise being logged, and an exception landing with its evidence pack. No slides, no voiceover promises, just the product.
Direct connections
Reads your ledger directly. Nothing retyped.
You approve each connection on the provider's own page, the way you approve any trusted app. Promised never sees your accounting password, and the connection is read-only and revocable.
QuickBooks Online
A direct connection reads your open invoices, customers and part payments, and keeps the queue in sync as payments land. New invoices appear without anyone exporting a thing.
Xero
The same direct read for Xero organisations: authorised and part-paid invoices, contacts and payments, analysed into who owes what and which promise is still open.
Stripe
Connect with a read-only key and your open Stripe invoices flow in with their hosted payment page attached, so every reminder carries a Pay button that already works.
No accounting system? Import any CSV.
Export from any app at all: a spreadsheet, a job system, a tool we have never heard of. Map the columns once, preview every row before anything is imported, and save the mapping so next month takes a minute. Promised meets your data where it lives.
Automation, with a leash
Automatic inside guardrails you set. Never beyond them.
Start with drafts first: every reminder waits for your one click. When you trust it, switch on automatic sending and Promised works inside the lines below, exactly as written. A short digest lands in your inbox each morning: what was collected, what was promised, and what needs you.
Your guardrails
Drafts first. Nothing sends without your approval until you say otherwise.
A tone ceiling. Firm is the strongest voice Promised will ever use. Never threatening, never shaming, nothing you would not sign yourself.
Sending hours. Reminders go out in business hours, in your timezone. Nothing at 2 in the morning.
VIP protection. Customers you mark as VIP are never chased automatically. Ever.
The final notice is yours. The last step before anything serious always waits for you personally.
One follow-up, then rest. A thread that stays silent is left alone, not hammered.
Answers come straight from your live invoices, never invented. Anything that sends is previewed first, and goes only when you confirm.
Ask Promised
Ask in plain words. Get the real numbers.
No reports to build, no filters to learn. Ask who owes you, what landed this week, or tell Promised to prepare reminders for everyone over 30 days. It shows its working first, and drafts wait for your go-ahead.
One-click pay
Most late payments are friction, not refusal.
Think of the invoices you have paid late yourself. The instructions were unclear, the payment link was buried, or paying took ten minutes you did not have. So it waited, and then it was forgotten. Promised removes every step between the reminder and the money:
The amount due sits at the top of every reminder in large, bold red, impossible to skim past.
One button, named with the amount, goes straight to your own payment page. For Stripe and QuickBooks invoices the link arrives with the invoice itself.
Your other ways to pay, bank transfer, Zelle, PayPal, exactly as you write them in Settings, printed under the button in every email.
Brightpath Consulting LLC
Invoice INV-2001 is ready to pay
Hi Dana, a quick reminder about invoice INV-2001 for the October project work. Here is everything you need to settle it in one go:
Amount due
$1,875.50
Invoice INV-2001 · Due Nov 18, 2026
Ways to pay
- Card or bank: the Pay button above, on our own payment page
- Bank transfer: Brightpath Consulting LLC, account details on your invoice
- Zelle: pay@brightpathconsulting.example
Sent with Promised on behalf of Brightpath Consulting LLC. Promised never holds your money: every payment goes directly to the firm.
Security and your data
Where your information goes, answered plainly.
This is the part most tools bury. Here it is in five short answers, because trust is the whole product.
- What Promised sees
- Invoice-level business data only: who owes you, how much, when it was due, and what they said about paying. Nothing else in your books.
- How it connects
- Read-only connections, approved by you on the provider’s own page and revocable at any moment. Promised never sees or stores your accounting password.
- Where the money goes
- Directly to you. Customers pay on your own payment page or by your usual methods. Promised never holds, moves or touches your money.
- How it is protected
- Encrypted in transit and at rest, with each firm’s data kept inside its own workspace and visible only to its own people.
- What never happens
- Your data is never sold, never shared for advertising, and never used to train AI. Ask for deletion and everything is deleted in full.
- One honest boundary
- Promised is built for invoices between businesses. It is not a tool for patient billing, and patient information does not belong in it.
Pricing
Pays for itself with one rescued invoice
Every plan gets the queue, the connections, promise tracking and one-click pay. Plans differ by how many open invoices you carry.
Solo
$49 / month
For one firm finding its footing.
- Up to 50 open invoices
- One workspace
- QuickBooks Online, Xero, Stripe and CSV
- Morning queue and promise tracking
- One-click pay in every reminder
Growth
$99 / month
For a ledger that keeps moving.
- Up to 200 open invoices
- Everything in Solo
- Automatic sending inside your guardrails
- Ask Promised, in plain words
- Payment plans, tracked part by part
Advisor
$199 / month
For bookkeepers who chase for clients.
- Up to 1,000 open invoices
- Everything in Growth
- Multiple client workspaces, one login
- Each client’s data kept separate
- Built for firms managing other firms
Prefer a guided start? A 14 day pilot begins with a $49 refundable deposit. We set up your connections with you and run the first chases on your real invoices together. If it does not earn its keep, the deposit comes back.
Questions
Asked honestly, answered the same way
How does the connection to QuickBooks, Xero or Stripe actually work?
You click connect, and the provider’s own page asks you to approve Promised, the standard OAuth flow used by every trusted app. The approval is read-only and you can revoke it there at any time. Promised never sees your password, and imports usually finish in under five minutes.
What happens when a customer replies to a reminder?
Promised reads the reply and sorts it: a promise, a dispute, a question, or a request for something small like a corrected purchase order number. A promise pauses the chasing until the date they named, and the promise is kept on record. Disputes and questions come to you with the full thread and the evidence pack, ready to answer.
Can a customer pay in parts?
Yes. You can offer a short payment plan, two parts over 30 days by default, split to the exact cent. Each part is then tracked like its own promise: confirmed, chased if it slips, and closed when it lands.
Which firms does Promised fit?
Small firms that invoice other businesses on terms and have no one whose job is chasing: agencies, consultancies, trades and contractors, cleaning and staffing firms, IT services, and the bookkeepers who look after them. If you carry 10 to 200 open invoices and some of them drift, it fits.
Do my customers pay through Promised?
No. They pay you, on your own payment page or by your usual methods. Promised writes the reminder, carries your payment link, and tracks the answer. The money never passes through us.
Can I cancel at any time?
Yes, from Billing, in a couple of clicks, with no exit interview and no dark patterns. Your invoices and promise records stay exportable, and if you ask us to delete your data, we delete it in full.
Your next ‘I’ll pay Friday’ could simply get paid.
Create your account, connect your ledger or import a CSV, and tomorrow morning starts with a queue instead of a knot in your stomach.
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