The shape of the problem
An agency invoicing on behalf of twelve creators is running twelve separate legal series at once. Each creator has their own name and address, their own tax identifiers, their own bank account, and — the part that catches people — their own invoice sequence, which has to stay gapless on its own.
Run all twelve out of one counter and every creator's books have holes in them. Run them out of twelve spreadsheets and you will eventually send the same number twice.
One account, many identities
The unit that solves this is an issuer profile: one per creator you invoice for. A profile holds a name, an address, tax fields, payment details, a logo, a signature and its own numbering configuration — and every invoice belongs to exactly one of them.
- Numbering is per profile. Kabir's invoice 41 and Riya's invoice 41 are different documents and neither sequence has a gap.
- The brands you invoice belong to the account, not to a profile — so you enter Everbloom Cosmetics once, not twelve times.
- Switching between profiles is one tap, and the invoice you are about to write inherits the identity you are on.
A profile is never a login. Your creators do not get accounts, do not get credentials and do not sign in to see anything — you generate the invoice and send it, exactly as you do now.
Reading the month
Analytics work per profile or across all of them. Per profile answers “what did Riya bill this month”; across all of them answers “what did the roster bill”. Figures are never converted between currencies — if half the roster bills in rupees and half in dollars, you get both figures, side by side, and no invented total.
A number your accountant cannot verify is worse than no number.
If you are not an agency
Then none of this exists for you. An account with one identity shows no switcher, no picker and no mention of profiles anywhere — creating an invoice stays three fields. The second identity is what makes any of it appear.