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"SnapBill, an online billing service, officially launches out of private beta to a global audience on Tuesday. The startup aims to make recurring invoicing and payment collection simple for small- and medium-sized businesses.\nThe self-funded, but currently profitable, startup was developed by South African entrepreneurs and launched in beta form for local South African businesses in March 2010. Since that the time, SnapBill reports that more than 1,000 local businesses have signed up to bill more than 20,000 clients. \n\"We wanted to create SnapBill because we felt that a complete billing automation solution for businesses in the service industry was lacking,\" says co-founder Jaco van Wyk. \"We started focusing specifically on small business and their needs, but soon expanded the system to meet the requirements of most medium-sized and enterprise level clients.\"\nSnapBill's claim to fame is that it lets users add their own services to the system, meaning the startup can manage a user's third-party service-based billing needs in its entirety. This includes generating branded signup forms, automating billing and payment, and handling client suspensions for non-payment. \nOther SnapBill features include custom branding for invoices, custom invoice fields, a handy invoice editor and client statistics. \nThe startup offers a free trial for users with five or fewer clients. Paid plans start at $12 per month for a single user, 50-client option and go upwards from there.\nWe've yet to test out the service, but it looks to be a solid online alternative to desktop billing software. There's already a myriad of other startups operating in the space, including FreshBooks and Chargify, so SnapBill's biggest challenge may be standing out from the pack.\n\n\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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