Show HN: Invoiced, a self-hosted invoicing app with API
invoiced.ioInstall Instructions: "purcahsing". "Alternatively, you can the documentation online".
Also, the install step says "Install SiteCloner".
Dashboard z-indexes are all messed up (tooltips behind main divs).
Currency symbols are completely messed up, € is displaying as '€'.
Also why do I have to edit a php file to change the currency when there's an "Application Settings" page?
This doesn't seem very professional.
Apologies for the typos; we'll take care of these shortly.
Regarding issues on the dashboard; we're not aware of any issues. Would you mind sending an email to support@chillyorange.com so we can figure out what the issue is and hopefully take care of them asap?
The only currency set through the config file is the default one; we placed this in the config file as, typically, you would set this once. Defaults per invoice and client can easily be set through the UI.
Screenshots of dashboard issues: http://imgur.com/yzaoduu,89pEqZw
Screenshot of install screen showing template was 'borrowed' from elsewhere: http://imgur.com/bxRXPyM
Also, the currency icon issues in the database? Appears to be an encoding issue.
Could you at least put in the README that there's a config file that should maybe be looked at before install?
Thanks for the screenshots; the popup issue seemed to appear on Safari/Chrome, and has been taken care off now.
We also corrected the wording on the install page (SiteCloner is another one of our products, nothing shady going on here :)) and fixed the typos in the install instructions.
Thanks again for pointing out these issues :) Ping us at support@chillyorange.com if you'd like us to you the updated version right away.
While we're at it :)
In the "Self hosted Huh?" section:
"subscript-based" -> subscription-based
"Subscript" is a typographical term.
creating an invoice, why is it I have to manually calculate the rate, if I give you the hourly rate and the number of hours? And why does the popup message say 'please make sure the last field contains a number'? Why can't it say "hey, you didn't enter a total"? The 'internal invoice number' on the settings page seems to max out at 2 digits. On the demo account, it's a 3 digit number, but you can't see the third digit because it's overlain by the huge up/down arrows.
Where are the discounts? Where are the terms on the invoice? Say I want to have a 2/10 net 30. That's a 2% discount if paid within 10 days, 30 days before overdue - I don't see any way to define my terms.
Has anyone there even studied accounting?
Since we've opted for a flexible item table structure (not every business out there requires the "item", "description", "item price", "total" structure) the table columns can pretty much anything, so the application currently have no way determining what to multiply with what.
Not sure about the number of digits in the totals, but obviously this should be unlimited. On our own installation we're in the for digits, so there should not be an issue with this.
Discounts are located in the Financials tab. It's a simple invoicing app, so there's no way to specify a discount based on when the invoice is paid (nor are we likely to implement something like this).
Terms can be placed in the invoice footer.
I'm curious, do you know of any existing invoicing software that handles discounts that way? I'm sure it exists, but I've never seen discounts that are tied to the date paid...
Two are quickbooks and freshbooks. You really should study accounting if you've never seen discounts tied to the date paid. Cash flow is important to every business, and a lot of businesses do give discounts for quick payment.
http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/the-best-invoice-payment-term...
https://www.americanexpress.com/us/small-business/openforum/...
Being able to define your payment terms is important.
Agree completely. I just asking about the software end. I've used freshbooks a lot and I've never seen that option. Just checked again, and it doesn't appear to be there. There are discounts, but it's a discount that is applied immediately, at the time of invoicing, rather than being applied IF certain conditions are met.
I'll check out quickbooks.
It looks like this might be something they threw together in a weekend. Boilerplate MVP for the purpose of getting a job interview or something?
Feedback: The dark text on a dark background is hard to read http://i.imgur.com/jiQa20D.png
Might want to compress this a tad: https://invoiced.io/images/bg.jpg
;)
Tnx for pointing that out, fixed :)
Slight (ironic?) spelling error: Please note, that at the moment, no other language besides Enlgish are bundled with the application.
Looks good otherwise!
Tnx; taken care off
Have you taken this offline? Can't get to it at all right now.
No, it should be online. Just tried and it loads ok for me... Are you getting an error or anything?
"Too many redirects" in safari.
works now in ff, but I'd started the 'demo' in safari 60 mins ago. now I can't get back to the main page in safari.
Should be working OK in Safari now as well