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Slate is invoicing software for Israeli businesses. It runs in the browser, issues documents the Tax Authority accepts, and costs nothing. That last part is the one people ask about first, so it goes first here too.

What free actually means

No document cap. No trial period that expires. No credit card at registration. No capability held back for a paid tier that appears once your business starts working.

The full list of what is included: unlimited documents, unlimited businesses, digital signing, the Israel Invoice connection with allocation numbers, VAT reports, Open Format export, import from a previous system, documents in English and foreign currency, and the AI features. All of it, subject to the terms.

That is unusual in this market, which is why the question deserves a real answer rather than a slogan. Most offers labelled free are one of three things. A cap, where you issue a fixed number of documents a year and hit a subscription wall the month you get busy. A trial, which is a deferred payment wearing different clothing, and anyone who has moved their books in by day thirty is no longer choosing freely. Or a free tier missing the one thing you cannot work without, which today is usually the Israel Invoice connection, sold only on the top plan. Above the allocation-number threshold that connection is not optional, so a plan without it is a paid plan with a free landing page.

Two traps hide in the small print. A price quoted per month but billed a year up front, which makes leaving cost money. And the counting itself: quotes, orders and delivery notes sometimes eat the same quota as invoices, so the cap arrives sooner than the marketing implied.

Four questions are worth asking of any offer, including this one. What counts as a document. Whether the Tax Authority connection is included. Whether billing is monthly or annual in advance. What happens to your data the day you stop.