What the app really needs is a time billing module and a 'wip' or work in progress option. Clients often want billing at specific times and it would be really nice to log on and enter time and/or sales of items into an account and then create the invoice at the specified date/time

How about some themes action?

I could probably help with a lot of this but would need a bit of assistance with some of the php

Regards;

Andrew

Thanks Andrew,

I've been thinking about time billing for a while

• my thoughts on this now are
  • to use google calendar (or other) as the time entry module
    • basically most time entering/billing systems i've used are damn ugly and everyone wants to use something nice like outlook to enter time - currently google calendar is best option as you can easily get the info out of it
  • and create a Simple Invoices module to integrate with google calendar - that way when you create a new time based invoice - it will go and get all the time entered against client x from your google calendar - you can then select which hours to bill and an invoice is created

re wip

• i agree that this would be very useful - i will definitely keep it in mind

re themes

• i initially created a number of themes for Simple Invoices, but it became a hassle to maintain them all as the UI was always changing
• the best option i've found so far if someone proposed a design for the UI thats better than the current one - then adopt that as the 1 simple invoices theme
  • than replace/evolve it as time goes
• but im still open to the idea of themes
• if you can mock-up a nicer UI please do and if its better than the current one - it will be adopted
  • if you can create the design i can sort out the php
• note: i've plans to redo the current UI in a month or so - remove the menus and make it simpler etc.. - but nothing concrete just yet

Cheers

Justin

option to choose the currency & story it with the amounts in the database

Recurring / Scheduling for invoices would be great.

Thanks Paul,

after I do some more work on 'Better invoice creation' i'll get recurring invoices happening

Cheers

Justin

A very simple feature I would like to see is a “status” field attached to the invoices. I am a consultant who works with a professional accountant and this field would greatly help us track the invoicing process from creation through payment. Our typical scenario is that I create an initial “service record” (an unofficial invoice) and submit it to my accountant, the accountant translates this into an invoice in an accounting package with all the correct charges, taxes, etc. and sends me a pdf copy, I review and approve or ask for changes, once approved the invoice is mailed to the client. Example statuses could be: “created”, “awaiting approval”, “approved”, “mailed”, etc.. Might be best if the field was user-definable.

A very simple feature I would like to see is a “status” field attached to the invoices. I am a consultant who works with a professional accountant and this field would greatly help us track the invoicing process from creation through payment. Our typical scenario is that I create an initial “service record” (an unofficial invoice) and submit it to my accountant, the accountant translates this into an invoice in an accounting package with all the correct charges, taxes, etc. and sends me a pdf copy, I review and approve or ask for changes, once approved the invoice is mailed to the client. Example statuses could be: “created”, “awaiting approval”, “approved”, “mailed”, etc.. Might be best if the field was user-definable.

I generally use the itemised invoice and it works well for me, I would also be interested in adding in some crm type aspects against quotes

finally (I suppose this is a small bug actually) the quotes actually appear in the debtor fields reports where they should not appear in any financial reports as they are not invoices per se

Hey Stuart

thanks for that - looks like im the only one who uses Total style :)

re crm - what type of aspects would you envisage?

re quotes - yep - this is a common request - i plan on adding a semi-automated status tracker thing to invoice so quotes arent in the reports and you can easily keep track of where stuff is at

Cheers

Justin

Hey Patrick,

alot of people - like Stuat above have requested similar features - i've added 'workflow' into our 'dreamtime roadmap' and will look into this in the future

http://simpleinvoices.org/roadmap/dreamtime

Cheers

Justin

Hi,

Different access levels to the data. For example, one collaborator can issue invoices, but he can only see the documents (and clients) he has created.

Thanks Rui

vote for 'Client login' in the July 08 poll if your after that feature

Cheers

Justin