When a Thai freelancer registers for VAT, the first question is usually "which e-tax invoice software should I use?" One name that comes up often is Leceipt. Here's an honest look at what it does well, and why it isn't really the same category as MANA.
Leceipt is a specialist, and it's good at the specialty
Leceipt is Thai software built around one job: producing e-Tax Invoice & e-Receipt documents that meet Revenue Department standards.
Credit where it's due:
- Generates both PDF and XML files, digitally signed with a PKI certificate — the actual requirement of the full e-Tax Invoice & e-Receipt system
- Covers the whole document set: full and abbreviated tax invoices, delivery order/tax invoice, debit notes, credit notes
- Sends from your own company email domain, with a public verification page at check.leceipt.com
- Integrates with the tools Thai sellers really use — Excel, Shopee, Lazada, TikTok Shop, LINE Shopping, WooCommerce, Microsoft Dynamics 365, plus Xero and QuickBooks — and offers an API
- Puts a PromptPay QR on documents, and will help you obtain the electronic certificate and register with the Revenue Department
If your problem is "I sell a lot and need dozens of properly signed tax invoices a day," this is built for you. MANA does not replace that.
Price is where freelancers should do the arithmetic
From Leceipt's pricing page as of August 2026, the entry plan for very small businesses is ฿999/month for 100 documents, then ฿2,999 / ฿3,499 / ฿4,999 per month for 300 / 500 / 1,000 documents, scaling up to ฿19,999/month for 10,000. The electronic certificate is separate — around ฿3,000, paid directly to the issuing authority (TDID or INET). The pricing page lists no free tier. Worth re-checking before you commit; prices change.
For an online shop issuing tax invoices all day, that's excellent value. Now apply it to a typical freelancer issuing 5–15 documents a month: you're paying full price for a 100-document quota and using under 15% of it. And if you aren't VAT-registered yet, you have no obligation to issue tax invoices at all.
MANA solves a different problem
Tax documents are the last step of freelance admin. Everything before it eats more of your week:
- Who owes you money, and how many days late are they?
- Has this project been fully billed, or is a milestone still open?
- Will next month's cash cover the bills if your biggest client pays two weeks late again?
- Have you collected every withholding tax certificate this year, so March isn't a scavenger hunt?
- Are your deductible expenses actually documented?
MANA is a workspace for one-person businesses: projects, clients, and the full document chain from quotation to invoice to receipt, plus finance, cash flow forecasting, and withholding tax — in one place. PromptPay QR on invoices, a public link clients can open and pay without an account, and follow-up tracking for overdue balances.
Side by side
| The job | Leceipt | MANA |
|---|---|---|
| Signed e-Tax Invoice & e-Receipt, compliant submission | Yes — the core product | Not its strength |
| Marketplace integrations, high document volume | Very strong | Not built for bulk issuance |
| Managing projects and clients | Out of scope | Yes |
| Chasing payment, outstanding balances, cash flow forecast | Out of scope | Yes |
| Best fit | VAT-registered sellers with volume | Freelancers and solo operators |
Choosing, in thirty seconds
Not VAT-registered? You don't need the e-Tax Invoice & e-Receipt system or the ฿3,000 certificate. You need a document and money system that gets you paid in full and makes filing painless. Start with MANA.
VAT-registered and issuing hundreds of tax invoices a month, especially through marketplaces? Leceipt is the sharper tool and the price matches the volume.
VAT-registered but issuing only a handful of documents a month? Separate the two concerns. Run the work, clients and money in MANA, and pick the lightest compliant route for the tax invoice itself — e-Tax Invoice by Email exists precisely for low-volume issuers.
This isn't necessarily either/or; the two sit at different layers of the job. The mistake to avoid is paying for e-commerce-grade tax document infrastructure when your actual problem is three clients who haven't paid and no idea whether next month works.