For freelancers
Freelance work is a run of small projects: a product shoot, a logo, a set of edits, each with a brief, a deadline, a deposit and a balance. WISMO keeps every client project in one list on your phone, sends an itemised invoice when you need one, and gives the client a progress link from Brief Agreed to Delivered, so you can stay in the work instead of answering “any update?”.
Updated · Written by Ashish Vijay
Sound familiar?
WISMO is built for freelance photographers, designers and other solo service providers who want to stay on top of orders without setting up a complicated online shop.
Project management tools want boards, tasks and team members when you only need to know what is due for whom.
Clients email, DM and call about the same project, and the agreed scope is in whichever message came first.
Deposits, final payments and invoices are tracked in three different places, so an unpaid balance can sit for weeks.
Regular clients book similar jobs every month, and you set each one up from scratch.
How freelancers use WISMO
Name the stages your project goes through. Your customer sees these exact words on their tracking page, not a general “In progress”.
Create the project with the client, the deliverables as items, the deadline and the agreed price. Put the scope in the description so the client sees what was agreed.
Take the deposit, then move through stages such as Brief Agreed, In Progress, Proofs Sent and Delivered, adding a note at each sign-off.
Send the invoice from the project, record the final payment, and use Duplicate Order when a regular client books the same job again.
From your hands to their phone
1The work
2The order, in WISMO
3What your customer sees
No. There are no task boards, time tracking, proposals or team members. WISMO tracks each client project’s deliverables, deadline, payments and progress, which is what most solo freelancers actually manage.
They get a link instead of a login. It shows their project’s stage, your notes and what they’ve paid, opens in any browser, and shows only their own project.
Yes. Send an itemised invoice by email from any project, in your currency. It’s a plain invoice, not tax-compliant accounting, so keep using your accounting tool for bookkeeping.
Yes. Most freelance work has no parcel. Leave out the courier link, deliver files or the service the usual way, and mark the project Completed.
WISMO is free for your first 30 orders, with no credit card and no time limit. Pro is $9.99/month or $69.99/year for unlimited orders, no WISMO branding, photos on updates and automatic customer emails, and starts with a 7-day free trial. App stores show the price in your local currency.
No. Only you use the WISMO app. Your customer gets a link they open in any browser, with no app to install and no account to create, and it shows where their order is, your latest updates and what has been paid.
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Free for your first 30 orders. No card needed. On iPhone and Android.