Subscribe
Sign in
Bonsai
p/bonsaiOne platform to streamline your entire business
Start new thread
Paul Jarvis

Bonsai - Contracts, invoices, and expenses for digital freelancers

by•

Put your freelancing on autopilot with Bonsai. Everything you need to run your freelance business. Trusted by 100,000+ top freelancers worldwide.

Add a comment

Replies

Best
Matt Brown
Maker
We hope you guys like Bonsai! We built it to make that annoying and confusing contract for freelance dev and design work easier to create, understand, and sign. Our hope is that it helps build better relationships with clients and gives you one less thing to worry about when freelancing. We know how tough it can be. Let us know if you have any questions!
Jason M. Camps
@matttbrown This is great and will probably make life easier for tons of people. But I must object to the use of the phrase "bulletproof contract". Doesn't matter if it's a form or prepared by the most expensive attorney you can find - No contract is ever bulletproof.
Adam Boulanger
@jasonmcamps I agree with Jason and would go one step further to suggest that asserting "bulletproof contracts" likely sets you up for liability.
Justin Mitchell
Love this app. Been chatting with @matttbrown for awhile now giving feedback on Bonsai so it's very exciting to see the final form.
Traducto
@matttbrown Also I couldn't see a way to edit the other terms of the contract. IP is very important and people have different arrangements for that. While it is nice to streamline the filling and e-signing of a contract, why not also give the ability to edit the other terms as an advance option for instance?
Traducto
@matttbrown What technology do you use for e-signing?
Ryan Robinson
looks interesting, @mattbrown. no mention of pricing anywhere on the website from what I could see. What is the pricing?
Matt Brown
Maker
@theryanrobinson It's totally free to use the contracts and will always be. Our goal is to make those fairly standardized, so we don't think we should charge for that. We're adding financial products like escrow (hellobonsai.com/escrow) which will help us monetize, but that'll be separate from the contracts. You can use contracts and escrow together for example, but you can use each independently.
Ryan Robinson
@matttbrown awesome, I love that. Unless I glossed over it, you may be missing out on a big opportunity to highlight clearly that the contracts are totally free! That'd otherwise be a point of friction for me, not clearly grasping that it's all free. Love what you're doing.. I'm including you in a post tomorrow on CreativeLive as a great new app for freelancers.
Matt Brown
Maker
@theryanrobinson Great feedback re free :) And thanks for featuring us! Feel free to email me with any questions: matt@hellobonsai.com
Jeremy Scott Foster
@theryanrobinson @matttbrown Looks like Bonsai is no longer totally free to use? If you have more than one client, anyway...
Chema
Looks great but, why forcing to use a state from USA? we have the company in the UK, so we can not use it? will be nice to give a try! thanks ;)
Alexander Singh
@deambulando The contracts they're using were most likely prepared by a lawyer in the United States to comply with U.S. law. I assume they need separate contracts for each country so as to comply with their local laws.
Matt Brown
Maker
@automaticyes @openclassified that's correct, these were prepared only for the US for now, since we wanted to validate the need in a single market. However, it's not too complicated to modify these for other jurisdictions. We're looking into Canada and the UK next!
Alan
Awesome @mattbrown! Excited to give these a spin. Thanks for creating this. Regarding the design, reminds me a lot of Robinhood App.
Matt Brown
Maker
@alanaut24 Thanks! Design credit goes to the awesome @mattnish though ;)
Eric Lobdell
I'd recommend that anyone considering this reads section B of the T.O.S. -- some of those sentences really make me nervous to use this product.
Matt Brown
Maker
@selamefekili Thanks for the comment! These terms are actually completely standard for any site that touches legal issues or content. Check out the TOS of RocketLawyer (https://www.rocketlawyer.com/ter...) or LegalZoom (https://www.legalzoom.com/legal/...), two huge companies and pioneers in the field, and you'll find the exact same clauses there. The fact is, nothing beats having a lawyer review every one of your contracts. However, that's simply not feasible for most freelancers. Our goal is then to provide something straightforward enough that will cover the majority of issues in the majority of cases.
Vladimir Babić
Amazing! I just have one quesiton, what if I created test contact, how do i delete it?
Matt Brown
Maker
@vladdesign We don't have that feature yet, but it's coming soon :)
DUO
I have to say this is absolutely brilliant
Austria Gura rata
Building a better relationship with the clients is really a big part of business success.
Yancey Silvas
Hello Bonsai Customer service is HORRIBLE!!!!!!! Do not use this Platform/site. Anybody reading this, feel free to call me personally and I will be more than happy to tell you how this company does business!!! 408-506-5827 They OVERCHARGE you and THREATEN to take access to your record if you don't pay!! There is no number to call or anyway to speak to someone about the glitches with the site!! BEWARE!! DON'T SIGN UP!!!
Sahil Ganjare
@matttbrown Does bonsai provides escrow services for freelancers ?
Lara Melo
This product is very perfect, I used a direct competitor of them but unfortunately none of them has made a version available in my Portuguese-Brazil language so far. Here in my country I still don't have any system or app focused 100% on freelances :(((((((((( At least thanks to Bonsai I can customize the texts and also change the currency, only the bank connection that still exist :/