Orkely Journal
Real-world articles about self-hosting, operations, installation, and making smarter software decisions for small businesses.
Orkely 1.0.3 is live for both editions: attach files to individual tasks, configure payment methods that fit any country, see a yearly income and expense trend on the dashboard and in report PDFs, and email proposals with their PDF attached again.
Latest articles
Orkely 1.0.2 is live for Orkely Free and Orkely Pro: invoices created from project tasks no longer fail silently, icons render reliably, invoice PDFs show the full client details, and project pages add a Task Revenue card.
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A practical walkthrough for plumbers: one client per customer, one project per job, hours and parts recorded as you go, and an invoice generated from the finished work.
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Electrical work is priced before it is done. Here is how to keep the quote, the job hours, and the materials together so the invoice reflects the work that actually happened.
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Small jobs hide the most work. This walkthrough covers quoting the real scope, logging labour per task, putting materials on the job, and invoicing from the finished tasks.
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Cleaning work is the same clients on a rhythm, which makes it easy to leave unrecorded. Here is how to keep the visits, the products, the hours, and the monthly invoice together.
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Seasonal work arrives in waves, and the costs arrive with it. This walkthrough keeps the hours, materials, and invoices for each garden together through the busy months.
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Photography is two businesses in one: the shoot, and the admin around it. This walkthrough covers packages, shoot and edit hours, travel costs, and invoicing.
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Client web work is invisible, recursive, and rarely finished. Here is how to keep the accepted scope, the subtasks, the retainer hours, and the pass-through costs in one place.
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Sessions are sold in blocks and delivered over months. This walkthrough keeps the block, the delivered hours, the unbilled preparation, and the invoice in one place.
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A small, focused update to Orkely Free and Orkely Pro: finance entries can now be edited and deleted, and the Store deep-link into Pro is smoother.
Read moreTool sprawl, growing costs, and operational fatigue are pushing solo operators and freelancers toward unified applications that keep everything in one place.
Read moreFrom local installation to your first invoice — a practical walkthrough of everything you need to do after downloading Orkely.
Read moreSpreadsheets are fine at the beginning, but they become expensive when you start losing time, context, and visibility across clients and projects.
Read moreMost independent professionals do not overpay because of one tool. They overpay because five "cheap" tools become a permanent stack with no end date.
Read moreOrkely Free is available now on the Microsoft Store, no credit card, no account required.