It would be nice to have a way of setting up automated task that can generate re-occurring order/invoices for the service industries.
At the moment invoices are generated manually but nothing get recorded in regards to re-occurring bill.
On the order page we need option to have the order repeated say once/daily/weekly/biweekly/monthly/quarterly/yearly and so on.
Or maybe a seperated services menu can be made with an overview of serivces that need to be billed the comming X days. Created invoices only have to be send by mail (as pdf file) or printed by post.
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
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
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.
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)
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
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!
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...
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?
