//Pricing
the price, and the reasoning.
Free wins the work. Pro moves the money. Right now, while North is in beta, all of it is free: no card, no clock. The two plans below are what it will cost at launch, published ahead of time. Further down is why the line sits where it does, because a price without its reasoning is a number you have to take on faith.
Free
The whole business of winning work and asking to be paid. A plan, not a trial.
$0forever
Start freeWhat’s included
- Unlimited proposals, drafted from your call notes, in your layout with your imagery
- Contracts drafted alongside, shown on accept, signed with a verified email
- The deal room: one private link where your client reads, accepts, signs and pays
- Unlimited invoices, sent and tracked; you see the moment one is opened, and you mark it paid
- Payment reminders written for you, sent when you say so
- Your logo, your colour and your name on every document, with no upgrade to remove ours
- Talk to North at full strength, with no message meter
- Told when a client accepts, signs or pays. Full export of everything, any time
No credit card. Everything listed under Free stays under Free; the price changes only for people who have not signed up yet.
Pro
The money moving, and the operation around it.
$39per month
Start free, upgrade when money movesWhat’s included
- Your client pays by card, on a checkout that runs on your own Stripe account. North takes nothing from it
- Delivery stages your client can watch, which become invoice lines that remember what has been billed
- Deposits and milestone billing from the stage schedule; retainers drafted on a cadence, never auto-sent
- Invoices in euros and pounds as well as dollars, each kept in its own book
- The money view: what is outstanding, what has arrived, and what is coming, across every client
- The watchers and the Monday note: a stage slipping, a project ready to invoice, an invoice overdue
- Saved proposal templates
- Everything in Free, on the same terms, with the same export
Cancel from one link and keep every byte. Checkout runs on Stripe; we never see or store your card.
Prices are in US dollars. On Free, the invoices you send are in dollars; Pro can also bill in euros and pounds.
//Why the line sits here
free wins the work. pro moves the money.
Everything your client touches is free, on purpose
The proposal, the contract, the room and the invoice are how you win the job and ask to be paid. A tool that meters those is charging you for your own pipeline, so North does not. Nobody else in this category gives away drafted proposals, signed contracts and a room the client is happy to open; the ones with a free plan take something back instead, whether that is three invoices a month, their logo on your document, a fee on every transaction, or a five-client cliff.
Pro is the money moving
Card payment on your own Stripe, stages that turn into invoices, deposits and milestones, retainers, more currencies, the money view. Two reasons that is the paid half. The moment a client wants to hand you money by card is the moment $39 is the easiest money you will spend that month. And connecting Stripe accounts, carrying the events that mark an invoice paid, and reconciling payouts is the part of the product with real running costs. Charging for the money rails and giving away the drafting is at least directionally honest about where the cost is.
The weaknesses, named
$39is at the top of the solo band. HoneyBook’s Starter is $29 monthly, Bonsai’s tier that actually includes invoicing is $19 per user billed annually, Moxie runs $10 to $20 (all checked from their pricing pages in August 2026, dated on the research page). A $6 invoicing app lets your client pay by card; if invoicing is all you need, that app is cheaper and this page will not argue with you. On North’s free plan your client pays by bank transfer against the details on the invoice and you mark it paid, which is a real limit and not a small one. What the paid plan buys that the cheaper tools do not is the drafting that won the work in the first place, given away, and a payment with nothing taken from it.
The price does not move on you
Whatever you pay when you join is what you keep paying. Increases only ever apply to people who have not signed up yet, and accounts that exist before launch keep the founding price below for as long as they exist. There is no countdown on that, deliberately: every lock with a ticking clock on it is selling the clock.
//Against the free invoicing apps
“free forever” usually has a catch.
The invoicing apps that advertise a free plan tend to take something back: a monthly cap, their logo on your document, a fee on every transaction. Three rows tell most of the story.
Invoices a month
Their free planThree, then the paywall
North FreeUnlimited, forever
Whose logo is on the invoice
Their free planTheirs, until you pay
North FreeYours, on every plan
Who drafts the proposal
Their free planYou do
North FreeNorth does, from your notes, and you correct it
One difference we would rather explain than hide. North never sends anything to a client on its own. Payment reminders are written for you and go when you say so. The apps that call theirs “automatic” are describing a robot with your name on it, emailing your client on a schedule. Ours is a choice, not a missing feature.
//The founding price
$20 a month,
for having been here first.
Have a North account before launch day and $20 a month is your Pro price for as long as you have the account. Having the account is the whole test; there is no judgement about how much you used it. You claim the price by subscribing any time in the first thirty days after launch. The lock is on the account, not on an unbroken payment streak: cancel in the slow season, come back in spring, still $20. Photographers and other seasonal freelancers are exactly who that clause is for. You will hear all of this from us by email, fourteen days before launch, not from a banner you might miss.
no countdowns. no “last spots.”
//How pricing works here
ten commitments, before you spend a dollar.
Screenshot this section. It’s written to be held against us.
No cut of your money
Not a take-rate, not a platform fee, not a per-invoice charge. At any volume, ever. Stripe's processing fee is Stripe's, charged to you directly — North's share of your client's payment is zero.
No cap on clients
Ever. The five-client cliff some invoicing tools use is the single most-complained-about thing in this category. We will never build one.
No cap on invoices
Ever. Send three or three hundred — the number is never the lever.
No cap on proposals or contracts
Unlimited AI-drafted proposals and unlimited signed contracts, on Free, permanently. Winning work is never metered.
Export is never gated
Not by plan, not by cancelling, not by anything. Every client, project, proposal, contract, and invoice — downloadable at any time, including on your way out. Leaving is never made hard.
You're never charged to find out a client paid you
Acceptance, signature, and payment notifications are free forever. They're the tool working, not a feature.
Your branding is never a paid upgrade
Your logo, your colour, your type — on every client-facing document, on both plans. Your work carries your name, not ours.
No per-seat pricing
The buyer is one person. There will never be a surprise second seat to pay for.
The price you sign up at is the price you keep
Increases apply to new signups only — never to you. Whatever you pay when you join is what you keep paying.
Free only ever deepens
When something new ships, a taste of it goes into Free. The free plan grows; it never shrinks.
//The asterisk
the questions people scan a pricing page for.
Plenty of tools bait with free and squeeze later, so the answers are written down here where they can be quoted back at us.
The whole business of winning work and asking to be paid, with no meter on any of it: unlimited proposals drafted from your call notes, contracts with e-signing, the client deal room, your own branding on every document, unlimited invoices sent and tracked with the moment a client opens one visible to you, reminders written for you to send, and full export. It is free forever, there is no card to enter, and it is a plan rather than a trial.
The money moving and the operation around it. Your client pays by card on a checkout that runs on your own Stripe account, with North taking nothing. Delivery stages your client can watch, which become invoice lines that remember what has been billed. Deposits and milestones billed from the schedule. Retainers drafted on a cadence, never auto-sent. Invoices in euros and pounds as well as dollars. The money view across every client, the watchers, the Monday note, and saved proposal templates. $39/month, billed monthly, cancelled from one link.
By bank transfer, against the payment details printed on the invoice, and you mark it paid when it lands. That works today and keeps working. Card payment is what Pro is for. If you are comparing North to a cheap invoicing app, that is the real difference and this page says so plainly: they sell the invoice, and Pro is the business around it.
Never. The card charge is made on your own Stripe account, so Stripe's ordinary processing fee applies, charged to you by Stripe as it would be with no software in between. North's share is zero: no percentage, no per-invoice fee, no platform fee, at any volume, on either plan. That is the first of the ten commitments further up this page, and it is written there so you can hold us to it.
No. When an invoice goes late, North writes the reminder and tells you it is ready; you read it, change it if you like, and send it, or do not. Tools that advertise automatic reminders are describing a robot that emails your clients in your name on a schedule. A late-paying client is a relationship moment, and we think your voice is the right one for it.
On Pro, yes: invoices can be issued in euros or pounds as well as dollars, and each is paid in its own currency. On Free, invoices are in dollars. Money in different currencies is kept in separate books in the money view and is never added together or converted, because a converted total is a guess about an exchange rate you have not been paid at.
It leaves with you. Every client, project, proposal, contract and invoice can be downloaded at any time, on any plan, as a structured data file and as a readable document, including while you are cancelling. Cancelling is one link. Nothing you made is deleted or held back, and the export has deliberately no plan check on it.
No. Price changes only ever apply to people who have not signed up yet; whatever you pay when you join is what you keep paying. And if your account exists before launch day, Pro is $20/month for as long as you have the account: claim it by subscribing in the first thirty days after launch, and it survives cancelling and coming back.
Because North is in beta and would rather earn the subscription than presume it. Everything on this page is the launch shape, published ahead of time. When pricing switches on, you will hear it from us by email fourteen days before, anything you have already made keeps working, and nothing ever appears on a card statement as a surprise.