Pancake makes running your business amazing!

  • Keep your data private

    Keep prying eyes away from your data by keeping it all on your own server. This means you can handle your own backups, export your data however you like and stay in control of your sensitive client information.

  • Install on your own server

    You can install it on any server you like! Pancake is not a hosted application, meaning you are in charge. Unlike hosted solutions, the price won't go up on you one month and there will be no service-wide down-time for heavy traffic.

  • Easy to Extend

    Pancake is built on top of a super-popular PHP framework called CodeIgniter, which makes it really easy to modify and build themes for. Even the whole admin area can be changed with a new theme! Your developer and your designer will be super happy to work with it.

  • One-time fee

    Pancake has a single, one-time fee of $49 then it is yours forever. No monthly subscriptions, no locked "premium features", no hidden costs, no upgrade fees, nothing. Compare this to hosted services that charge you $10-20 a month and it won't take long for you to have made a saving.

Why Pancake?

Pancake makes it super simple to keep you, your business and your clients on track. Bill time, get paid... like a baus!

  • No limit Invoicing!

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    You've gotta eat! Unlike hosted solutions, Pancake will not limit how many invoices you can send each month, in fact there are no limits at all! Have 75 clients? Great! Add them all, and send them 100s or 1000s of invoices!

  • Keep an eye on your stacks

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    Pancake helps you keep an eye on where you are at, by tracking who has and hasn't paid. Basically, this means that you send an invoice your client can view online and Pancake will let you know when they pay. Easy!

  • Recurring Invoices

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    Repeating yourself is a pain. Why build the same invoice up every week or month when you could let Pancake do that for you? Invoice retainers, monthly web hosting, etc and collect payments all automatically.

  • Reusable Items

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    Recycling is a good thing, so why waste time and effort writing in the same items and prices over and over again? Set up some reusable items and just start typing in your invoices to see them pop up.

Invoicing

Invoice clients like it aint no thing and get back to doing something awesome. Set up recurring invoices, send templated messages to your client with PDF invoices attached and get emailed when the payments are made.

  • Tasks

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    Tame the beast! With simple to use project management, Pancake lets you keep track of whats important - getting tasks accomplished. When those tasks are done you can mark them as complete to show progress!

  • Milestones

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    You're on the go now, keep track of where you are going and how to get there! Assigning milestones to projects helps keep everyone on track. Very quickly you can set them up, add some tasks and get billing for projects.

  • One-click Invoices

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    We all enjoy invoicing, but the faster you can build that invoice the faster you can get back to making more money or building that Lego Death Star you've always wanted to finish! Pancake helps you do that with the "Generate Invoice" button, which takes Task or Project specific rates into consideration along with time and builds you a detailed invoice with one click!

  • Multiple Rates

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    We know that you are "kind of a big deal" with clients all around the world, so you need to use multiple currencies. Go ahead! Projects can be done in whatever currencies you like with custom rates or set a cron job to update conversion rates from Google.

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Project Management

Generally Project Management is probably the least interesting part of your day, but Pancake does a great job of making it quick and easy. You won't see any Gantt charts in here, just simple milestones, tasks and time tracking, which can be turned into invoices with one click!

  • Log Time Manually

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    Stuck in a client meeting for hours, way over your retainer? Log this time in Pancake when you finally get away to have it appear on the invoice, attached to a task or just enter a note.

  • Timer

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    Track time spent on a task with a start / stop timer that is smart enough to deal with you going offline for a bit, so you won't randomly lose your time just because the coffee-shop wifi cut out for a minute.

  • Secret Missions

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    Sometimes you need to hide a task from a client. Maybe the task is "Create a new EC2 instance with root password of zxcSDF243f", which you don't really want the client to see. Uncheck this box and you can still track time, but the client wont see the task.

  • Timesheets

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    Print off detailed breakdowns of where all the time was spent, with the option to add notes to each chunk of time. If you have multiple users tracking time it will even put user names in, which can help you check up on your employees!

Time Tracking

You might tell yourself you'll remember how much time you've spent, or you might have a whole application specifically for time tracking, or even use a dashboard widget. Stop all of that and use Pancake's crazy-simple timer, built right into your tasks!

  • Drag 'n' Drop

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    Pancake hates complicated interfaces, so Proposals are ridiculously easy to work with. Click around to insert text, WYSIYG content, estimates and new sections or pages. You can drag and drop stuff around to re-order it.

  • Estimates

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    Add estimates into your proposals to get some nice big numbers in-between the boring text.

  • Send Proposals

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    Send links to the proposals to your client and see when they view them. The client can then accept or reject the proposal, giving you a chance to update things and send it again. You can keep doing that dance until an agreement is reached, without having to scramble around trying to find old emails.

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  • Auto-save

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    Ever spent hours writing a Proposal only to have Word crash or your e-mail client freeze? Never again! Proposals will auto-save, meaning you never need to repeat yourself. You can even save templates so the next one you write will be built even quicker!

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Proposals

Win new business like a super hero! Pancake Proposals allows you to create awesome, gorgeous proposals swiftly and without hassle. Your client can view the proposal online and download a PDF of the proposal, accept it on the spot and get on with it!

  • Comprehensive Dashboard

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    Once a client is logged in they can see everything that is going on in one place. They will stop pestering you for progress reports because they can see exactly what is happening.

  • Password Protected

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    Having your client spy on your every move is handy, but allowing others to see this however would be bad news. The Kitchen (Client Access Area) is protected with a password so your information can be kept secret.

  • Receipt confirmation

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    "You didn't receive the invoice? Well I can see here that you opened it at 6:03pm on Tuesday..."

  • Conversations

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    Keep the conversation right in the dashboard, with email notifications. This will help you refer back to decisions made at earlier stages in a project and hopefully help you keep a handle on scope creep.

Client Access Area

Clients can be crazy and needy, we get that! Through a simple interface you can interact with your clients, show progress and hours logged on tasks, share files for approval, brainstorm ideas as well as allow them to view all their invoices and proposals. Pancake makes CRM easy!

  • File delivery on payment

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    Everyone can use some muscle! Why sit around waiting for your client to pay, just so you can email them files. When they pay... Pancake will deliver the files for you! It's like a nicer, friendlier file hostage situation.

  • Automatic updates!

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    You have better things to do with your time, maybe you are a rockstar and have a gig tonight, go do that. Pancake will look after updating itself so you can do fun things instead.

  • Client Health Check

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    Keep an eye on which clients are behind on their payments quickly and easily with a "Health Check" feature, where the more red you see the more invoices they are behind on.

  • Reports

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    Nobody can plan their world domination if they have no idea how much money they'll have next month. Pancake helps you look back at your income to make a plan for next month.

Other cool stuff!

Phew, that was a lot of things! We really do have more, but we would just be waffling on... but if you insist!

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