http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ AcuInvoice Forum: Powerful Online Invoicing: Last 35 Posts en Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:34:29 +0000 http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/logo-size#post-71 Mon, 12 May 2008 15:29:59 +0000 sidney 71@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>We'll be adding the ability to put your own logo in a few new places in AcuInvoice. Along with this, we might expand the allowed size. One thing we have to consider is the overall look of the invoice, since increasing the logo size alters the placement of other elements. This will be an issue as we release the invoice printing service. </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/expenses#post-70 Mon, 12 May 2008 11:07:55 +0000 sidney 70@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>Yes. We actually already have this prototyped and are starting to program it soon. We're doing another iteration of the prototype before we put it to code. Will send you a screenshot via email. </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/logo-size#post-69 Mon, 12 May 2008 08:40:42 +0000 rickroberts 69@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>Could you increase the size of logo allowed? How about 275 x 100? </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/expenses#post-68 Mon, 12 May 2008 08:38:30 +0000 rickroberts 68@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>Do you have plans to add an expense tracking feature? I like that I can select expense type and bill to client, but it would be nice to track all of my expenses, even those not related to a client. The Freshbooks implementation of this feature is quite nice, though they do not allow an attachment. </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/ability-to-apply-discount-to-an-entire-invoice#post-67 Fri, 02 May 2008 21:30:06 +0000 sidney 67@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>Just tested it in Safari. Sent you a screenshot. What browser are you using? </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/ability-to-apply-discount-to-an-entire-invoice#post-66 Fri, 02 May 2008 21:18:07 +0000 rickroberts 66@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>I think I might be a retard. I'm trying to use the discount item for the first time, and it's not working for me. I select discount as item type, enter a negative amount, and then receive a red error that says "Invalid Price." </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/acuinvoice-integration-with-quickbooks#post-65 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:51:38 +0000 cwho 65@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>Sidney<br /> Thanks for the reply. I love your DNS redirect by the way, this is a really great feature. </p> <p>Re QB, If we could attach a PDF invoice I would sign up today. Without it, I can't see how to close the loop with our existing billing. Some of our bills are 10 to 30 items and retyping those is a no-go. The only service I can find that allows you to attach a file is billmanager by Intuit but everything else about BillManager is... sort of a BM.<br /> Thanks, Charles </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/acuinvoice-integration-with-quickbooks#post-64 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:50:14 +0000 sidney 64@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>Thanks for the feedback. I'll be having a blog post on this shortly. </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/acuinvoice-integration-with-quickbooks#post-63 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:05:14 +0000 cwho 63@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>Hello,</p> <p>I really want something far less, although full Sync would eventually be nice. There are so many many aps out there that change the way you invoice. I guess I really don't see a problem using QB to CREATE an invoice. However, getting paid online then is a drag. I would like to be able to UPLOAD a QB pdf or UPLOAD as an attachment to an online accuinvoice invoice. Then when they go to the website it asks them to pay xxx amount (and yes I am happy to input xxx amount - I don't need it to sync that) and provides the quickbooks pdf as link for downloading and printing. Being able to import our customer database would be nice. (CSVimport that I think you may have but a tempate would be nice.) I think this would be fairly easy to implement. You just have an invoice template that says your invoice is attached and allow an upload. Happy to pay extra for the privilege. </p> <p>A next step would be to send the PAID invoice data back to QB.<br /> A next step woudl be to provide the ability to download all open invoices into Accuinvoice and have a check box for which to send out. </p> <p>The deal here is that I cannot find an app that lets me still use all my items and workflow in QB but just asks for the money in a clean sane way! </p> <p>Just ideas. Happy to flesh it out more. </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/vat-invoices-038-acuinvoice#post-62 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:02:28 +0000 sidney 62@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>Anthony,<br /> Thanks for the great feedback. I'll be contacting you via email. As for the timeline, we need to write some specs on this first--and I'd like to design a solution that would work for a variety of countries. Do you mind if I contact you regarding these specs? </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/acuinvoice-integration-with-quickbooks#post-61 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:46:47 +0000 anthonyama 61@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>1. using QB desktop<br /> 2. All invoicing data for full sync<br /> 3. Would be a nice feature, that way we can use either QB or acuinvoice, depending whether I'm at work or on an island at some white sandy beach sippling cocktails and counting the money!!<br /> 4. Complete sync would be the best!<br /> 5. Early version to QB integration would be fine. Anything that is a start is a bonus!<br /> 6. Automatic would be good, and likely good to sync wen possible - weekly...etc. </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/vat-invoices-038-acuinvoice#post-60 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:41:26 +0000 anthonyama 60@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>yup, you got it right sidney...</p> <p>just posting some Q and A on making a compliant Australian Tax Invoice -</p> <p>1. First, a very basic question: Is the Australian "Tax Invoice" a document that has a purpose identical to a US "Invoice"? In other words, are all invoices sent to an Australian recipient inherently a "Tax Invoice" or are there instances when it might be something other than this?\</p> <p>A. YES. all invoices that handle GST in Australia need to be labelled "Tax Invoice" and "Sales Tax" in the sub total area also needs to say "GST" instead of Sales Tax.</p> <p>2. If someone from Australia invoices someone in another country--let's say the US--would it be customary for the Australian company to send a "Tax Invoice"? If so, does it have any function different than a standard invoice? Could the US company, for example, use the Tax Invoice to reclaim the VAT from the Australian government?</p> <p>A. We cannot collect GST from foreign companies - but we still need to send a compliant "Tax Invoice". If I had to bill a US client I'd set the tax percentage to zero - or not check the tax box so no tax applies. The invoice will still need to be "tax invoice" compliant for auditing purposes here in Australia.</p> <p>Q. So basically my two question are a) are all invoices where both the sender and recipient reside in Australia "tax invoices" and b) if one party resides outside of Australia, is it still a tax invoice or is it just an invoice?</p> <p>A. Its just the one invoice. Its a "Tax Invoice" and "sales Tax" is "GST". That makes it a compliant invoice for the purpose of issuance by/to Australian businesses/recipients.</p> <p>now, can you give me a timeline when this can be done so I can sign up and you can make some $ from me?</p> <p>ta </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/universal-form-generator#post-59 Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:03:28 +0000 sidney 59@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>We will be releasing the AcuInvoice Simple Store this week. This should sufficiently address this functionality, and more. The code we will be releasing should be easily modified to meet whatever other functions are required. </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/acuinvoice-simple-store#post-58 Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:01:58 +0000 sidney 58@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>This week we are going to be releasing version 1.0 of the AcuInvoice Simple Store. This is an e-commerce application written in PHP that is powered by the AcuInvoice API. We've written a brief blog post outlining the features and benefits of the <a href="http://www.acuinvoice.com/blog/2008/03/02/the-acuinvoice-simple-store-a-free-e-commerce-application-powered-by-the-acuinvoice-api/">AcuInvoice Simple Store</a> and would like to have some feedback from AcuInvoice users prior to releasing this code later in the week. </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/euro-symbol#post-57 Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:55:04 +0000 sidney 57@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>Ismael,<br /> Thanks for the heads up on this. I'll open a ticket on this and try to get something out in the forthcoming 1.1 release. The issue related to displaying EUR rather than € should be simple enough. However, the separator is a little more complex. If we go down this path, we'd have to hard code this for each currency, and as you can tell, we support a bunch of them. We might have to think that part through a bit more. </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/euro-symbol#post-56 Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:51:02 +0000 ismael 56@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>The Euro Symbol should be displayed on the right side of the amount (unlike the dollar), otherwise use "EUR". Also, the Euro Currency uses a comma as its decimal separator:</p> <p>4.000.000,25€<br /> EUR 4.000.000,25 </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/pdf-invoices#post-55 Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:58:56 +0000 ismael 55@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>Well actually, PDF files can contain links if tracking is really an issue, right? </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/pricing-after-trial-period#post-54 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:47:00 +0000 sidney 54@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>Sorry it took some time to get this posted, but it is now up here: <a href="https://www.acuinvoice.com/install/index.php?lang=EN" rel="nofollow">https://www.acuinvoice.com/install/index.php?lang=EN</a> </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/add-vat-number-to-google-invoice#post-53 Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:16:29 +0000 acuinvoice 53@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>Several people have either contacted us, or have stumbled upon out site, in search of a solution for adding VAT numbers to Google's internal invoicing system. While we work on a long term VAT solution (we encourage you to participate in this and other related threads to provide input on this), we suggest one of the following two approaches in AcuInvoice to help Google Checkout users deal with this issue:</p> <ol> <li>Make use of the Address 2 field. This is a good area for you to put VAT#: XXXXXXX</li> <li>In the Company Name field, put "Company Name: VAT#: XXXXXX"</li> </ol> <p>We encourage users to participate both on this thread as well as on another thread related to <a href="http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/vat-invoices-038-acuinvoice" title="VAT Invoices and AcuInvoice">VAT invoices</a> to help us come up with some good specifications for this. Meanwhile, we invite current users of Google's invoicing tool to try out AcuInvoice; we think the functionality is clearly superior to Google's invoice utility. </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/acuinvoice-integration-with-quickbooks#post-52 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:06:38 +0000 sidney 52@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>A couple of users have contacted us regarding the ability to synchronize data with QuickBooks. These users typically utilize QB as a general ledger package, but prefer the flexibility that AcuInvoice provides. QuickBooks "integration" is something that, depending on how it is defined, could either be very simple, or fairly complex. Therefore, we are starting this thread to seek community feedback so that we can learn more about this issue prior to rolling out an initial QuickBooks integration utility. We have some specific questions, but would also encourage you to provide whatever feedback you think should be considered in making our decision regarding QB integration. Our specific questions for users include:</p> <ol> <li>Do you use the desktop version of QB or do you use QuickBooks online?</li> <li>What data (specifically) would you like to send from AcuInvoice to QuickBooks?</li> <li>Do you need to send data from QB to AcuInvoice?</li> <li>Would you want this to be a one way communication (e.g. AI--&gt;QB only) or would you want to have complete synchronization between the two applications?</li> <li>Would you prefer to see an early version of QB integration, or should we wait for certain new features to be unveiled (e.g. time tracking, the concept of a project, etc.)?</li> <li>How frequently would you need to have data imported or synchronized? If you are using the online version, would it be ok to do this automatically?</li> </ol> <p>If users could be so kind as to provide this feedback, we will begin to draft specifications for QuickBooks integration in the near future. </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/allowing-access-to-development-versions-of-acuinvoiceaccess-to-the-staging-area#post-51 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:25:24 +0000 acuinvoice 51@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>Glad to hear the expression of interest. We've not yet made the staging environment public--we're merely assessing interest on the part of our users at this point. But we have already been contacted by a couple of people, so it seems like this might end up happening. It will be a moderate amount of work to get things properly setup and opened up to our users.....if we continue to hear interest, we'll probably get this setup so that we can give staging area users access to features in AcuInvoice 1.1 several weeks ahead of the official 1.1 rollout. As for pricing, we will have a pricing page up either today or tomorrow. The page has been written, and the text translated. We are merely integrating a new streamlined registration system into the site and want to release that page along with the new signup page. I'm going to do a blog post on pricing concurrent with the release. It will, among other things, explain our pricing logic, detail how the pricing relates to a follow-on product we will be releasing in the fall, and will provide early adopters such as you a coupon for paid plans. </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/invoice-template#post-50 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:16:01 +0000 acuinvoice 50@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>Thanks for joining the forums. I want to make sure that I understand the situation here. You have one product, but the price of this product varies. Does it vary for each and every customer or, for example, is this something that comes in 3 or 4 different service levels (e.g. web hosting small, medium, large) and your customers always get routed into one of these options? Feel free to explain here, or if you prefer, you can click on the "contact support" link from within your account and post a ticket so that we can discuss in private your situation. </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/pdf-invoices#post-49 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:03:27 +0000 acuinvoice 49@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>I was thinking that it would not be sent as an actual attachment to the email that goes out to the customer. Rather, I was envisioning 1. a link to the PDF and 2. the existing link to the web based version of the invoice that contains links to the payment gateways, etc. If we did it this way, we should still be able to track when and by whom the PDF version was downloaded, and record a comment indicating as much in the invoice notes. Were you wanting the PDF to be sent as an actual attachment? Clearly we are still thinking through this, so if you have some suggestions, let us know. </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/pdf-invoices#post-48 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:44:32 +0000 zeeshanaqeel 48@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>yes thats a good feature, but with pdf will it not be difficult to record if the invoice been viewed or not? </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/invoice-template#post-47 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:37:54 +0000 zeeshanaqeel 47@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>I sell one product and all of them have same description only price change, u might want to review my account and then confirm what I want to say, so I might be interested in a template that I can reuse instead to typing in description every time. </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/charts-038-graphs#post-46 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:29:35 +0000 zeeshanaqeel 46@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>Thats a real cool feature that'd give a real boost, I like graphs it gives you a quick overview without numbers, it should be on the dashboard, where it displays all received/receivables/due possibly a sum or percentage or both together, hope this helps you!</p> <p>Flash charts hmm gives a cool feeling, but can we print flash charts? </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/allowing-access-to-development-versions-of-acuinvoiceaccess-to-the-staging-area#post-45 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:26:05 +0000 zeeshanaqeel 45@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>I am interested in the staging Area, how can I subscribe to it? I like the service and wonder what the pricing would be as it is still not mentioned on the website!</p> <p>Looking to hear from you </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/allowing-access-to-development-versions-of-acuinvoiceaccess-to-the-staging-area#post-44 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:03:59 +0000 acuinvoice 44@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>***Admin Note: Cross-Posted on the Blog--Please provide feedback***<br /> As we near the 1.0 release (delayed by several days by the <a href="http://www.acuinvoice.com/blog/2008/02/06/meet-charlie/" title="Isn't He Cute?">arrival of Charlie</a>), we are already actively coding features for AcuInvoice 1.1. This next release of AcuInvoice will include a number of user interface improvements, feature upgrades, and modifications designed to improve the overall user experience; details have previously been posted <a href="http://www.acuinvoice.com/blog/2008/01/20/acuinvoice-11-an-incremental-release-scheduled-for-late-1q08/" title="AcuInvoice 1.1">here</a>. In discussing plans for 1.1 with our engineers this morning, we have decided to seek feedback from the AcuInvoice user community regarding the notion of allowing subscribers to opt-in to the AcuInvoice staging environment, thereby providing access to an advanced preview of new features and allowing us to more rapidly assemble feedback that will make AcuInvoice more useful and productive for everyone. We stress that this would be on an opt-in basis and that users would not be required to use the staging environment. More details are below. If, after reading this post, you are interested, please post a comment or respond to the thread I have posted on the forum (go on, you know you want to join the forum).</p> <p>What Is The Staging Environment?<br /> We develop and test on an internal LAN, then perform advanced testing in a staging environment that has a configuration substantially similar to the live AcuInvoice server. Additional testing in the staging environment helps us find (typically minor) bugs that had previously gone undetected, and helps us further optimize the code prior to releasing it to the public. The more people use the staging environment, the faster the code can be optimized, and the faster the code will get out to the public.</p> <p>Is It Safe?<br /> Yes. We don’t put Blue Screen of Death code on our staging environment; it’s typically pretty solid and just needs to be reviewed by a few more users. Also, if we open up the staging environment, we would let you opt out at any time. Lastly, since we <a href="http://www.acuinvoice.com/blog/2008/02/09/amazon-s3-backups-for-all-acuinvoice-accounts/" title="Amazon S3 Backups">recently implemented Amazon S3 backups</a>, we would easily be able to roll back your account to a previous day. The risk is quite minimal.</p> <p>Why Would I Use The Staging Environment?<br /> Good question. Here are a few reasons.</p> <ol> <li>You would get to see cool, newfangled features before everyone else.</li> <li>You would get to influence the development process more directly; your input is likely to have an obvious impact on the final work product.</li> <li>We would likely give out perks to staging environment users who provide significant help, feedback, etc.</li> </ol> <p>If you think this sounds like something you might be interested in, let us know. Our go/no-go decision on this will be based largely on the level of enthusiasm expressed, so if you are interested, please let us know by commenting here or on our forum. </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/vat-invoices-038-acuinvoice#post-43 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:20:17 +0000 acuinvoice 43@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>We've had a number of customers contact us about making AcuInvoice more compatible with VAT taxing structures. We'd like to hear from our users what all we would need to make AcuInvoice more friendly for your particular situation. Things we have heard so far:<br /> 1. Add a VAT number/Company registration number field to both your company, and the client company and display it on the invoice. Question: does this typically get displayed in the address block of the client, or would it be ok if we displayed this information toward the bottom of the invoice template--for example, around the area where you can currently add notes.</p> <p>2. Allow users to specify what the tax is called. Currently, the tax is set to "sales tax"...perhaps we should have a variable where the user can set the name of the tax.</p> <p>3. Translations. We've had requests for more translations (particularly requests for Dutch).</p> <p>I would like to have more feedback from users regarding what things would need to be added in order to make AcuInvoice more (insert your country)-friendly. </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/ability-to-apply-discount-to-an-entire-invoice#post-42 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:03:36 +0000 acuinvoice 42@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>Rick,<br /> Thanks for joining the AcuInvoice forums. We are considering this and would like to have feedback from users on a preferred implementation. Options include:<br /> 1. Keep it simple. Apply discounts to the whole invoice (e.g. 20% to the whole invoice).<br /> 2. Make it more nuanced: allow line item discounts in addition to full invoice discounts (e.g. 10% to the first line, but not the next)<br /> 3. Context-dependent discounts: (e.g. 15% off the whole invoice if paid within 5 days). </p> <p>So yes, we have thought about this, but we have yet to determine a preferred implementation/how it might integrate with other elements of the code. If we get some more feedback from users (hint, hint), we might be able to get this into the 2.0 release in the fall--probably too late for 1.1, since we'll need to do specs, mock it up, etc. prior to coding it. Thanks for the feature suggestion! </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/paypal-gateway#post-41 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:58:47 +0000 acuinvoice 41@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>Flipman,<br /> Try this out again, please. Part of the problem might have been PayPal. They were having issues with their IPN feature right around the time you posted this. </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/ability-to-apply-discount-to-an-entire-invoice#post-40 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:14:26 +0000 rickroberts 40@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>It would be nice to have a field that allows application of a discount to an entire invoice. I wonder what others think. </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/mac-time-tracking-widget#post-39 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:50:51 +0000 rickroberts 39@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>Absolutely. I don't do time tracking, but it would be nice to use the widget to enter invoice line items as my day goes along. </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/paypal-gateway#post-38 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:12:21 +0000 acuinvoice 38@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>Flipman619,<br /> Thanks for joining our forums. There are a few things you need to have in order for PayPal to work with AcuInvoice.<br /> 1. A valid PayPal account.</p> <p>2. You need to have PayPal activated, and your account information entered properly in your AcuInvoice account. This section can be found in My Account--&gt;Payment Gateways within your AcuInvoice account.</p> <p>3. When you create an invoice, you then have to send that invoice. When you hit "Send" you will see an option to "Enable PayPal" for that invoice. </p> <p>The recipient is sent an email telling them that they have an invoice to pay. When they open the invoice, links to any enabled payment gateways (e.g. PayPal, 2checkout.com, Amazon FPS) are shown in the upper left hand side of the invoice. I suspect the problem is that you are viewing the invoice not from the recipient's perspective, but rather from within the application (i.e. the invoice editor). These have slightly different displays, and since it is unlikely that you'd want to be paying invoices for your clients, the links to the payment gateways are excluded from this view. If this hasn't answered your question, or if you think you might have found a bug, please shoot us an email at support (at) acuinvoice dot com or click on the "contact support" button in the upper right hand of the application.<br /> Regards,<br /> Sidney </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/paypal-gateway#post-37 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:33:47 +0000 flipman619 37@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>I have setup my paypal gateway but still don't understand how this integrates with acuinvoice? </p> <p>How do my customers pay? NO button or link shows up on the invoices!</p> <p>Does anyone know how this is supposed to work? </p>