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MoneyMar 25, 20263 min read

Know Exactly How Much You Earned This Year

No more end-of-year surprises. See your income month by month, client by client.

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Ask most freelancers how much they earned last quarter, and they'll say "let me check my invoicing tool" or "I think around..." — followed by a guess.

That's dangerous. You can't plan your business on guesses.

Log every payment

Every time a client pays you, create an income entry in Backlog. Title: "March retainer — Acme". Amount: €2,500. Client: Acme Studio. Done.

It takes ten seconds. And now it's recorded permanently.

The 12-month grid

Your dashboard shows a row of green cells — one for each month — with your total income. At a glance, you see which months were strong and which were slow.

Open a client profile and you see their income row: exactly how much they've paid you, month by month, for the last year.

No more spreadsheets

You don't need a separate invoicing tool just to know how much you earned. Backlog isn't an invoicing tool — it's your financial memory. The truth of what came in and what went out, always up to date, always one click away.

This is what Backlog does.

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