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Bonsai is building the global operating system for freelance work.
The way the world works is changing.
Companies want on-demand talent rather than full time employees. Workers want flexible and independent careers. This is one of the largest socio-economic shifts since the Industrial Revolution.
While the nature of work is changing rapidly, the tools and processes supporting it are stuck in the twentieth (or even nineteenth!) century.
Bonsai is dedicated to helping companies and independent talent work better together. We're building solutions to support a future where work is flexible and globally distributed.
Everything you need to run your freelance business.
Bonsai’s all-in-one product suite with smart automation lets you focus on your passion, not your paperwork.
Make proposals that help you win more work.
Create, send, and track proposals online with custom packages and electronic approvals.
Look Professional
Create high-quality proposals in seconds with your project details and payment options. Send it off for electronic-approval or copy the secure link to send it yourself.
Upsell Service Packages
Along with flexible proposal editing, you can offer single or multiple service options for your clients to choose from. Start maximizing your earnings and close rate.
Streamline Approvals
Track when your proposal has been viewed and make accepting as easy as possible with package selection and electronic-approval.
Flexible contracts to secure your business.
Create & e-sign contracts from vetted templates. Get peace of mind and get on with your work.
Protect Your Business
Vetted by thousands of freelancers and top contract lawyers, select from a variety of contract templates to get started. Then, add your own customizations for your business.
Streamline E-Signature
Use a legally-binding e-signature to speed up the formalities when onboarding a new client relationship. Send it via Bonsai or using your own secure link.
Automate Reminders
Once sending your contract, stay up-to-date with automatic reminders to your client, as well as notifications for viewing and counter-signing.
Get paid on time with smart, flexible invoicing.
Join thousands of freelancers getting paid faster with invoice automation, partial payments and more.
Automate It
Use smart invoicing to automatically create your next invoice, remind your client for payment, accrue an overdue late fee and send you read-receipts.
Always Get Paid
Using Bonsai’s global payment options and smart invoicing features, freelancers get paid an average of 13 days faster and have 3x fewer late payments.
Invoice Like A Pro
Once sending your contract, stay up-to-date with automatic reminders to your client, as well as notifications for viewing and counter-signing.
Manage your own digital workspace and client list.
From prospect to project and contract to payment, you can now manage everything all in one place.
Build Your Client List
Quit losing clients in your inbox and have a reliable system to track them with your ongoing work together. Add them with all your notes, contacts and tags.
Keep It Together
Organize all the todos, files and documents for your projects. Your clients even get their own project view to manage payments and contracts you’ve sent.
Work With Others
Whether they’re a subcontractor or a co-worker, you can freely collaborate on projects with other users to assign them tasks and track time together.
The robust time tracker made for your workflow.
Manage your hours with ease with an all-in-one time tracker, timesheets and billing system.
Invoice Hours
Set a project’s hourly rate, start tracking time and bill time to your client with a click. Round the time up to make the billing even smoother.
Centralize Timesheets
Whether you’re tracking time as a team on a project or working solo, you can keep all your project’s timesheets in the same place to see the hours billed and to-be paid.
Use It Anywhere
Download the app on iOS, Android, Mac and Chrome so the time tracker works the way you do. Use a time tracker that supports your workflow.
Simple tasks built for your project workflow.
Prioritize the week for your ongoing projects and create reusable task templates for new ones.
Keep It Simple
Whether you’re managing tasks for your business or specific projects, you can add new instantly. You can even set up custom templates for new projects.
Assign To Collaborators
Have multiple people on a particular project? Add a collaborator for free any time to manage tasks together without granting full access to the project.
Tie It Together
Track time on your tasks and the timesheet will show what was completed when billing your client. Continue billing hours for a project’s ongoing tasks easily.
Custom client forms tailored to your business.
From client intake forms to project-ending surveys, you can now easily collect input from clients.
Integrate Your Forms
Forms that smoothly work with your client list and projects. From lead capture to client feedback surveys, start sending questionnaires that fit your workflow.
Customize Fields
With flexible field types, you can get multiple-choice responses or free-form answers to best capture your client input. Make the forms your own.
Be More Effective
Continue iterating on your questionnaires for new projects and improve your client experience. Send out the same forms or create a new one instantly.
Easy-to-use financial tools and tax estimates.
Keep a pulse on your business finances with income reports, expense tracking, tax reminders and more.
Automate Expenses
Connect your bank account and your expenses will automatically be categorized for tax season and maximizing write-offs.
Control Your Finances
Have peace of mind knowing all your monthly profit, business expenses and deductions are accounted for in one place.
Make Taxes Stress-Free
Download your Schedule C and tax write-offs in minutes. Receive reminders for your upcoming estimated tax payments.
Software for freelancers to track 1099 expenses & keep a peace of mind at tax time
Bonsai Tax is built exclusively for self-employed workers to track expenses, maximize tax write-offs, and estimate quarterly taxes
Maximize Write-Offs
Bonsai Tax is designed to identify and categorize receipts for taxes. So, our app can help you maximize your tax savings at the end of the year
Automate Expenses
Connect your bank and credit / debit card accounts to automatically import and organize tax receipts
Estimate Quarterly Tax
Our tax software for freelancers uses your tracked income, expenses, and deductions to give you live estimates of the taxes you will owe