A branded invoice generator — and the dashboard that tracks what gets paid.

Zarla is an AI website builder for small businesses. You describe your business in a sentence and the AI generates a complete website — copy, design, images, SEO. Built into the same dashboard is a suite of business tools, including the invoice generator + manager this page is about, a CRM, a bookings calendar and a website analytics tab. One subscription, one log-in.

An invoice generator is a tool that turns a customer name, a few line items and a due date into a finished, professional invoice you can send and get paid against. Most generators give you a generic template; Zarla's pulls your real branding (logo, colors, fonts) and your real services from the website it already built for you, so every invoice looks like a piece of your business.

The generator is the creation half — you pick a customer, drop in line items, hit send. The manager is the dashboard half — every invoice you send lives there with its status (Draft, Sent, Viewed, Paid, Overdue), a stats bar at the top (total sent, paid, outstanding), and a per-invoice activity timeline. Same tool, two surfaces.

Stripe processes the payment, sends a webhook to Zarla, and the invoice status flips to Paid in your manager instantly. A green pulse animates the row in your dashboard, a toast announces "X received from Y", and a soft chime plays. The first ever paid invoice on your site triggers a one-time confetti burst. A CRM lead is created if the customer wasn't already one, and the activity timeline gets a Paid event with the transaction ID.

Zarla is free to build — you can create your site, set up your brand, and preview how invoices will look without paying. Sending invoices to real customers and accepting payments is part of your paid Zarla plan — current plans are on the pricing page. There's no separate invoicing subscription on top — invoicing is bundled with the website builder, CRM, bookings and analytics.

Yes — the whole point is that the invoice inherits your site's brand and the invoice manager lives in the same dashboard. Zarla isn't a standalone signup-free tool like Invoice Generator.com; it's a small-business hub that builds the website, applies the brand, and uses that same brand on every document. If you just need a one-off blank PDF, those standalone tools will be faster. If you want every invoice (and the dashboard that tracks them) to look and feel like your business, that's what Zarla is for.

All in the same dashboard: the AI website builder + editor; the invoice generator + manager; a CRM that captures every form submission and paid invoice as a lead; a bookings calendar where customers can book appointments from your site; an analytics tab that shows which visitors became customers; a service catalog that powers invoices and your site's Services blocks; and a publishing pipeline that puts your site on a global CDN.

Yes. Every invoice carries a secure pay-now button powered by Stripe Connect. Customers can pay by credit or debit card, Apple Pay or Google Pay from any device. Funds settle directly into your connected bank account in your local currency (USD, AUD, NZD, SGD, INR, GBP, EUR, CAD all supported). Zarla doesn't take a cut beyond Stripe's standard processing fee plus a small platform fee.

Yes — that's the differentiator. When Zarla generates your website, it picks (or you customise) a logo, brand colors and a typography pair. Every invoice you create reuses exactly those design tokens — so a customer who just visited your site and then opens your invoice sees the same visual identity twice in a row.

Yes. Every customer you invoice is automatically saved to your Zarla CRM — name, email, billing address, past invoices, payment history. Next invoice for the same customer is two taps: pick them from the list, add the services, send. The CRM is also where leads from your contact form, bookings and paid invoices all land.

Yes to all three. Tax can be configured as inclusive or exclusive, with country-specific defaults — GST in Australia / New Zealand / Singapore (auto "Tax Invoice" header when tax-ID is set), VAT in the UK and EU, sales tax in the US. Discounts can be applied as percentage or flat amount. Currency is derived from your country automatically — no separate currency picker to misconfigure.

QuickBooks and FreshBooks are accounting platforms with invoicing built in — they're powerful but designed for accountants and growing businesses with bookkeepers. Zarla's invoice generator + manager is the opposite end of the spectrum: built for solo operators and small teams who just want branded invoices, a Paid status that updates itself, and the website + CRM that goes with them. If your business outgrows Zarla's invoicing, you can export the data to whichever accounting tool you want.