About Grace Period

Grace Period is built by Dino S., founder, at Space Cadet d.o.o. in Zagreb, Croatia. It’s a small operation, which is the reason the product does one job rather than twelve.

You can reach me directly at hello@graceperiod.app. Not a ticket queue — the same address reaches the person who writes the code.

Invoices rarely go unpaid because a client vanished. They stall in a much more ordinary way: you send a reminder, the client replies “sorry, we’ll pay Friday,” and then Friday passes with nobody watching. The reply stopped the chasing, and no system restarted it.

Most reminder tools are built around a schedule keyed to the due date. That works right up until someone writes back, at which point the schedule either keeps firing — nagging a client who already answered — or stops for good. Grace Period is built around that reply instead: it reads what the client said, holds them to any date they named, and drafts the follow-up if that date passes.

The constraints matter more than the feature list, so they’re worth stating plainly:

• Nothing sends without you. Every reminder and every drafted reply waits for your approval. You can opt a stage into auto-send, but that is a decision you make, not one the product makes for you.
• It never touches your money. No payment processing, no lending against invoices, no percentage of what you collect. Clients pay you exactly as they do now.
• It isn’t a cockpit. No risk scores to interpret, no dashboards to live in. Getting paid shouldn’t become a second job with its own software.
• It doesn’t do collections. The aim is a client who pays and still likes working with you. If a debt genuinely needs a solicitor, that’s a different tool and we’ll say so.

Early. Grace Period is a young product, and the honest version is that you would be among the first people using it rather than joining a crowd. There are no customer logos on this site because there is nothing yet that would be true to put there.

That shapes how everything here is written. Comparisons name what rivals genuinely do well, competitor pricing gets checked against their own pages, and where we can’t verify something we write “not documented” rather than implying it can’t be done. If you ever find a claim on this site that doesn’t hold up, email me and I’ll fix it.

QuickBooks, Xero, FreshBooks and FreeAgent connect by one-click OAuth, with Sage in beta. If your books live somewhere else — or nowhere in particular — a CSV import or manual entry works just the same, and everything downstream behaves identically.

The guides are the other half of this. They’re written to be useful whether or not you ever pay us: templates, comparisons, and the mechanics of chasing without damaging a relationship.