Choosing a tool
Every option below can send an invoice, so the real question is which one knows what a gram of alloy and an hour at the bench are worth.
Most software an independent jewelry designer looks at was built for a different shape of business. Some of it assumes a retail case, a staff and a repair counter. Some assumes a service business with packages and bookings. Some assumes you sell finished stock at shows. A commission is none of those. The price is not known until the finished metal weight, the stone and the bench hours are settled, and a good share of the money should land before you cut a single sprue.
These pages stay at the level of fit. We describe what kind of tool each option is and the workflow it assumes, and we leave out prices, plan names and feature claims, because those change and we will not guess at them. Where another system genuinely suits how you work, we say so. A designer who sells mostly finished inventory at markets should not be running a commission quoting tool, and a designer who lives on remounts should not be typing ring quotes into a general invoice.
BeadInvoice vs HoneyBook
HoneyBook is built for creative service businesses that run projects with clients, while BeadInvoice is built for the specific arithmetic of a ring quoted from grams, stones and hours.
BeadInvoice vs Square
Square is a payments and point of sale platform for any small business, while BeadInvoice exists to work out what a custom piece should cost before anyone pays for it.
BeadInvoice vs The Edge
The Edge is a full jewelry store management system for retailers with inventory, staff and a repair counter, while BeadInvoice covers only the commission side of an independent bench.
Free tools
Both of these answer questions designers usually settle by feel, and feel is what leaves a month of setting work unpaid.
Working document
Every commission dispute a designer ever has traces back to something on this list that nobody wrote down.
A comparison page can only take you so far, because your mix of remounts, rebuilds and full custom work is nobody else's. Pick a job you already delivered, bring the finished weight, the stone cost and the hours, and we will build the quote in front of you. If a different category of software suits your studio better, you will hear that in the same call.