Smart Invoice flips traditional invoices on their heads with a combination of escrow, milestone payments, and arbitration. We enable clients and service providers to transact with less trust and fewer intermediaries.
Smart Invoice originally was custom built by RaidGuild for improving how clients paid for work. RaidGuild Raid Parties (project teams) needed better assurances that clients could pay for contracted services. At the same time, we set out to give clients more confidence in the ability of the Raid Party to deliver. We realized that this problem - which we call the invoice dilemma - was a very common one, so we set out to generalize our internal tool into a more polished product for DAOs, Web3 companies, independent contractors, and freelancers to use.
Today, Smart Invoice is live and running on Gnosis Chain, Polygon, and Ethereum Mainnet. Check out our documentation, blog, and twitter to learn more; and drop by our Discord server for any questions or support.
Through our experience working with freelancers and grant-giving organizations, next to the importance of generic invoicing many stakeholders acknowledged, a tailored offering for grant disposal is needed to fund the next iteration of public goods built in Web3. For this reason, we are introducing a new way of using smart invoices - Smart Grants.
It uses the same underlying on-chain and milestone-based escrow invoicing system, but optimizes explicitly for the grant-fu...