Simple Invoices - Forum

Hey jvkranenburg,

Thanks for the suggestion, recurring billing as been requested by a few other people. I'd love to see it implemented in Simple Invoices - just need to make it as simple as possible and not make Simple Invoices to feature full and complex

refer: http://code.google.com/p/simpleinvoices/issues/detail?id=51&can=2&q=

also ChuckT is working on a plugin system for Simple Invoices - recurring billing would be a great plugin for Simple Invoices - maybe not enabled by default but available if you want it

Thanks again

Cheers

Justin

Hi,

Is there any news regarding when this recurring invoice system will be included in the latest release?

Thanks,
Johan

Hey Johan,

i would love to tell you recurring was available or under current development but unfortunately i can't :(

hopefully i can get some time soon or if someone else from the Simple Invoices community has a crack at getting this one done

Cheers

Justin

We are sponsoring the development of Recurring Invoices and we are almost done.

looks awesome!

let me know when you finished - email me the files and i'll try and get it into Simple Invoices asap

cheers

justin

any news ?

none from me - grungy - do you have any updates on this?

cheers

justin

Any news about recuring invoices?

hey jakint

most likely have to wait a while till i get round to doing this

plan is to 1. make invoice creation better, 2. get a few more of these Beta versions out, 3. new UI and then 4. recurring invoices

so it'll be done - just not asap :)

cheers

justin

Recurring is finished. We are making an extension. Expenses extension is on the way too..

Recurring, take a look:

http://si.aos.ba/

Depends on cron - http://si.aos.ba/cron.php

You can delete, payments, and attach files to payments.

awesome!!!!!!

re recurring
- how do you manage the recurrence of an invoice? ie. cancel recurrence etc
-- do you have to find the first occurrence and adjust the recurrence settings?

re expenses
- will this be used just for reports - via income minus expense
- or will you be able to 'attach' and expense to an invoice? ie bill the client for a certain thing you purchased etc..

when you start writing this as an extension you can host the code in our svn if you want - just email me your gmail username and i'll set it up

Cheers

Justin

For now you can not cancel recurrence....

To be honest, we do not have much time to go further with this. I would like to release this as a SimpleInvoices fork....not cuz we want a fork, but we do not have time to turn all the changes to extensions.

Regards


Nedim

hey nedim

if your running out of time just upload the code - easiest place is http://groups.google.com/group/simpleinvoices/files and i'll take a look at it

or i can create a branch in svn for you if thats easier

cheers

justin

Just uploaded the Recurring fork:

http://groups.google.com/group/simpleinvoices/files

I really like to complicate thing so I named the file:

aos-simpleinvoices-fork_v0.1-recurring.tar.gz

awesome!!

i'll download and review the files

note: may be a little while before this is included in Simple Invoices as we'll need to make it ready for general use

thanks

justin

Hi Justin

Any Updates on Recurring billing? any news ?

Thanks
Sanson

hey sanson

no news re recurring :(

cheers

justin

I like Simple Invoices but before I (and I know a lot others) will use this (or can use this) it's essential that there is a possibility to use Recurring billing. It's essential for me.

Is there an estimate when this will be available? If it's not before January 2010 I have to use another option (which I do not prefer)

hey gasoline

recurring most liekly wont happen pre jan 2010 - if you search the forum someone has created some cron type code for basic recurring - you can look at that if you really need it now

cheers

justin

First off...great program. It fits in a perfect and necessary niche. Its Above using spreadsheets and below all the other accounting/invoice programs which are to complex for businesses who only employ 1-10 people.

In my eyes, and it seems in many, the major extension missing is recurring invoices. Theres a default_invoice extension which allows you to create recurring invoice for a certain customer. But a true recurring invoice feature that stores and allows a certain type of invocie to be automatically reused for different customers and different jobs is needed.

Anyways im mainly writing to say its a great program and to put my vote in for creating recurring invoices in the next release before any other extensions are added. If i learn how the other extension were coded in i might be able to help myself. Great work!

hey still water

got some good news

recurring invoices has been done and will be in the next release
- its currently in our svn trunk development area

for more info refer http://simpleinvoices.org/wiki/recurrence

cheers

justin

I think all these news are latest.

But i want to ask, is there any chance for more recurring invoices?

more??

recurrent invoices is available in our 'beta' series releases of 2010.2 - refer the blog

cheers

justin

Hi Justin,

If I understand the recurrence example you provide, a cron job will create a new invoice when the time for recurring arrives, is that it ? If yes, that is a bit of an issue because that means you don't have forecast information.

Say you have a 1 year support contract with your client, and you bill every quarter. It would be better to have the 4 invoices created in advance, so you can already plan your yearly turnover, and know what you will bill ahead of time.

Or, rather than invoice recurrence, maybe we could just have scheduled payments ? Since we already have partial payments that would be pretty easy no ?

What would be the better approach in your opinion ?

PS: sorry I realize I posted this message on the wiki fist, I didn't intend to write it there...

hi alban

i replied to your wiki post

recurrence creates new invoices at the time of recurrence - not all at once as you want

cheers

justin

Hello,

is there any way of to force a type of invoice to be started. For example, i create an invoice. When the person pays i change it to receipt in order to email him the correct document.

Cron “copies” the document, so if my document is now a receipt it will create a receipt as i want it to create an invoice.

Any suggestions to work around this?

(this above was posted in wiki, but i think this is more appropriated here)

Another thing... i've been tested recurrence and set ip up in cron ok with beta 7, when the script send the email, no mather if customer or biller is checked (only one at each time), email is always sent only to customer.

If both are checked then the email is sent to the two emails.... i think this is a bug. How can i address this?