Simple Invoices - Forum

Ah... missed something...
the next big thing could be a report of bills for the collection office (if anything else fails).
I do also have a plan for this in my mind *gg*

but that should follow later ...

hey florian

sounds great

1 - can interest be % or $ based
- so you can so $10 fee is late by 10 days etc..

... i'll post more later

got to go

cheers

justin

Hi,

> 1 - can interest be % or $ based
> - so you can so $10 fee is late by 10 days etc..

reminder charge = $10 (e.g. handling fee)
interest (%) = interest rate in %
Did you mean that?

cheers
Florian

thanks - that is what i mean

cheers

justin

I have an addition to the plan above:

* I also have to add a Field to Settings - Invoice Preferences, something like "overdue after" (as a number of days)
e.g.: If a bill is overdue 14 days after the invoice date I may not bill an interest rate for these days.

justin: do you know someone helping me with frontend work (and maybe templates)?
I want to do the main stuff, things I want to delegate are:
* Designing a Symbol to be placed in the frontend's action places for the new functionalities
* Linking to the new functionality in the frontend (everywhere, not only on the places I mentioned above)
* Default template (I only need my customized template for me and my customers, which differs in some places from your default template)
* Translations to other languages than english (as good as I can) and german

As I am very busy I'm willing to implement the things I really need and tend to schedue these parts for much later. I think these are easily delegateable.
They don't need to be implemented now, I have to do the backend functionalities first.

Do you have a release date for the next stable? I want to have this included asap.
Question on development:
Is it OK to send you diff files or do you prefer to give my svn write access? (As this is my first task on your codebase I prefer the first option so that you can easily review it)

cheers,
Florian.

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edit: added translations to the list above.

hey florian

you now have svn access

re html/web stuff
- if you want it done you have to do it yourself
- i normally do all that stuff - but am running low on time

cheers

justin

re svn:
thx.

re html/web stuff:
well, I'm low on time too as any it-technican/programmer. I'll (try to) implement the core idea asap, as this is done we'll see what our future plans are.

Thanks for your support and for the great app so far.

thanks florian

note: this is pretty complex so we'll need to have the reminders feature turned off by default ( to keep Simple Invoices simple :) )
- either have a look at our basic extension system
- or just make sure that it can be easily turned on/off depending on what the user wants

cheers

justin

* or just make sure that it can be easily turned on/off depending on what the user wants

well, if you do not use it it's doing nothing.
Is that compatible with "easily turned off?"

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* we'll need to have the reminders feature turned off by default
Ah... I read over this at first.
I do not want to implement an automatic reminder ... maybe this could be a task for later.
I primarly want to have a Site showing me the open bills where a reminder should be sent. It's still the choice of the user if he uses this new feature or not. I just want to see e.g. once a month which bills are overdue. The new feature is: I could see this all on one screen and could - if I want - print a reminder for these. This should be more simple than doing this by hand, so I think I'm within the concepts of *Simple*Invoices.

Ok, I'll do the checkout now, hope I find some time to get coding soon.
Thx. regards Florian

hey florian

re easily turned off
- sounds good
- just comimt the code and we;ll sort the rest out later

cheers

justin

OK, thanks.
I got a busy project last week, I hope I get some time for this soon.

cheers,
Florian

no worries - whenever you have time is fine

cheers

justin

This is certainly an added featuere that I would love to use.

Especially if it modifies the original invoice and emails reminders to the customer.

Well,

at the customer where I first would use SI, we found some other missing parts and finally decided to switch to another solution.
As I am fairly out of time I cannot help here now. Maybe later.

If someone wants to pick this up feel free to do so. Also, if a developer has questions about my ideas, feel free to ask here.

hey guys

this is still on the ideas list and would be a great addition
refer: http://code.google.com/p/simpleinvoices/wiki/ideas

- a very simple solution - that is jsut email a reminder out to all unpaid invoices - is now closer than before as we have recurring invoices in teh development version and could use its code to do this type of this

cheers

justin

Justin thanks for this information.

no worries

Hi all,

I'm a bit confused. Did this actually work in the end?

I'd love for reminders being sent automatically, it would safe a lot of time on our end.

Thanks

I could use this too. Is something done on this part already?
Somewhere I can catch up? tnx

I think this would be a great addition if it's not already implemented. I will try to work a bit on it, and see what I come up with.

My php abilities still suck, so don't expect much too fast, but I'm happy to work on it.