# Invoices from the work you did.

> About Dora: Dora is the AI account manager for teams that do client work. An agentic client portal: Dora briefs every request and gets it signed off, and your team or your own AI agents do the work.

Turn on invoicing and Dora drafts each client's invoice for the month from their retainer, the estimates they approved, and their billable hours. Change any line, then send it. The client gets an email with a PDF and an Invoices page in their portal, and pays you the way they always have.

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## What invoicing does.

- **Drafted from the record**: Click Draft for a month and Dora fills it in: the client's monthly retainer, the estimates they approved that month, and their billable hours at the right rate.
- **Yours to edit**: Change, add, or remove any line. Nothing reaches the client until you issue it.
- **Numbered, with a PDF**: Issuing gives the invoice its number, from INV-0001 on, and a PDF. Dora emails it under your company's name, with a link to the client's portal.
- **An Invoices page for clients**: Clients see their issued and paid invoices in their portal, next to their requests and delivery record.
- **Paid, or reminded**: Mark an invoice paid or unpaid, send it again, or void it. When one is overdue, Dora sends the client up to two reminders.
- **Fixed-price work**: Give a request a fixed price and invoice it on its own: a deposit of any share, then the rest. Its hours stay off the monthly invoice, so nothing is billed twice.
- **Rates that fit each client**: Set a default hourly rate, a rate per person, and a rate per client. The client's rate wins, then the person's, then your default.
- **Your currency and terms**: Pick your currency, with an override per client, your invoice prefix, days until due, how clients pay you, and an optional tax rate per client.
- **Ready for your books**: Export invoices as CSV for your accountant. Your AI tools can draft, issue, and mark invoices paid over MCP and the API.

## How invoicing works.

1. **Turn it on**: An admin turns on invoicing in Settings and adds your details and terms. Then turn it on for each client under Billing in their settings.
2. **Draft the month**: Click Draft and Dora fills in the retainer, approved estimates, and billable hours. Edit any line.
3. **Issue it**: It gets its number and a PDF, and the client gets an email. Mark it paid when the money arrives.

## Questions

### What goes on a monthly invoice?

Whatever the month holds for that client: their monthly retainer, the estimates they approved that month, and their billable hours. Hours use the client's rate if they have one, then the rate of the person who logged them, then your company's default. The draft is yours to change before anyone sees it.

### How do clients pay?

However they pay you today. Add how clients pay you to your invoice details, like your bank details, and mark the invoice paid when the money arrives. Mark it unpaid again if you need to, send it again, or void it.

### What do clients see?

An email from Dora under your company's name, with the invoice as a PDF and a link to their portal. Their portal has an Invoices page with every invoice you've issued them and which are paid. Drafts stay with your team.

### What happens when an invoice is late?

When an invoice passes its due date, Dora sends the client up to two reminder emails. You set the days until due for your company, and you can send an invoice again yourself any time.

### Can I invoice a project instead of a month?

Yes. Give a request a fixed price and invoice it on its own: a deposit of any percent when you start, then the rest, as separate invoices. Hours logged on that request stay off the monthly invoice, so nothing is billed twice.

### Can we use our own currency and tax rate?

Yes. Pick your company's currency, USD by default, and change it for any client who pays in another. Set an optional tax rate per client, your invoice number prefix, and the days until an invoice is due.

### How do invoices get into our books?

Export them as CSV and hand them to your accountant or import them into your own tools. Every issued invoice also has its PDF.

### Is this how we pay for Dora?

No. Dora bills your company for its own plan through Stripe. Invoicing is how you bill your clients, from Dora, under your name.

### Can our AI tools handle invoices?

Yes. Over MCP and the API, Claude, ChatGPT, and your own scripts can list, read, draft, and issue invoices and mark them paid, with list_invoices, get_invoice, draft_invoice, issue_invoice, and mark_invoice_paid. For fixed-price work there's set_request_price, get_request_billing, and invoice_request.

### Does invoicing cost extra?

No. Invoicing comes with every plan and stays off until you turn it on. Your first client is free, forever, and each client after that is $10 a month, with every feature and unlimited team seats.

## Related

- [Time tracking](https://dora.work/features/time-tracking): Log time on requests, keep it to your team or bill it, and see each person's hours.
- [Approvals](https://dora.work/features/approvals): Hand work over properly and get it signed off in one click, even from quiet clients.
- [Agencies](https://dora.work/for/agencies): A client portal and AI account manager for agencies with many clients and many requests.
- [Professional services](https://dora.work/for/professional-services): A client portal for professional services teams: requests, scope, approvals, and a monthly record for every client.