http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ AcuInvoice Forum: Powerful Online Invoicing Forum: Features en Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:06:47 +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/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/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/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/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/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/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/charts-038-graphs#post-36 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:11:37 +0000 sidney 36@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>Agreed. This is something that makes more sense toward the end of 08 or early 09. If any user could suggest a favorite graphing package, we'd be glad to hear it. Fusion Charts (http://www.fusioncharts.com) looks pretty nice. I'd be interested to know in what areas of the application charts/graphs would be most useful. Dashboard, reports? What information would you like to visualize? Would Flash charts be OK or would users like to see something they can more easily copy/paste into, for example, a PowerPoint presentation? </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/charts-038-graphs#post-35 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:08:29 +0000 mm 35@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>That would definitely be a surplus value (haven't seen it anywhere else). But since graphs are only interesting on long range, I suggest you prioritize other, more user-attracting features and then after a while launch the visuals as a surprise :) </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/universal-form-generator#post-34 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:04:46 +0000 acuinvoice 34@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>We've started to draft specs on this already and plan to develop and release this in the next couple of months. We will either a) release the script for free (keeping in mind that an AcuInvoice account is required for it to work) or b) make it low cost, but offer some installation services as part of the price. The way we're currently envisioning it is as a lightweight store for the delivery of digital goods. We might post a detailed specification on the blog or in the forums once we have something a little more advanced. We've gone on and reserved the domain AcuCheckout.com (we have a talent for names, no?). Should be pretty slick. </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/universal-form-generator#post-33 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:43:01 +0000 anthonyama 33@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>this is a GREAT idea. A very marketable otion for me and I could pick up a lot of clients from that option.<br /> Also, similar options to include time tracking options (as per another topic on here) would be enormous!<br /> ant </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/suggested-payment-methods#post-32 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:40:05 +0000 anthonyama 32@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>paypal is universal. you have it, thats why we picked you.<br /> other options could possibly be HSBC, and/ow in Australia something like westpac banks' gateway services integration?<br /> A "bpay" option for australia is also a big win too.</p> <p>cheers<br /> ant </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/html-invoices-in-email-vs-an-encrypted-connection-1#post-31 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:38:08 +0000 anthonyama 31@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>i think the option to attach invoice by pdf is the best way. that way, you can put additional messages in the body of the e-mail without screwing up formatting of invoice<br /> ant. </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/pdf-invoices#post-30 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:36:03 +0000 anthonyama 30@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>and ps, don't forget to add this option to recurring invoices....</p> <p>ant </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/pdf-invoices#post-29 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:34:18 +0000 anthonyama 29@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>Hi sidney</p> <p>this would be a great idea...have a check box on the invoice form and if checked, then the invoice e-mail should have a pdf attachment to it. I know some of my clients are a bit silly and wont click on the link to access the website. By the way, great job with the site! rgds. anthony. </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/html-invoices-in-email-vs-an-encrypted-connection-1#post-21 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:26:23 +0000 acuinvoice 21@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>We'll definitely put this on a list of issues to carefully consider. I'd like to continue to get feedback from users to get a larger, representative sample of the opinions on this issue. That being said, it wouldn't be too difficult to set up a global setting, but also have the ability to override this setting either at the customer level (e.g. SlowPay, Inc. always gets the link that allows you to track invoice receipt) or at the individual invoice level (e.g. you have a feeling Occasionally Late, Inc. might be starting to get a little difficult). We are, however, trying to be cautious not to fall down the path of feature bloat. Carry on with the feedback, dear users. </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/html-invoices-in-email-vs-an-encrypted-connection-1#post-20 Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:10:09 +0000 clickpay 20@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>I think that I would like to see the option to either send HTML emails without tracking or Plain text with tracking. That way if I have a client who is one of those 'What Invoice' I would use the plain text and all the rest I would use HTML.<br /> Or have the option as a Global setting so that all mails are either sent plain text tracked or HTML not tracked.<br /> I feel that this flexibility would encourage more people to use your application. </p> http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/topic/html-invoices-in-email-vs-an-encrypted-connection-1#post-18 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:20:27 +0000 proconfig 18@http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ <p>I think you have a point on the tracking issue.<br /> I would actually prefer the invoice to be on the email itself but I think it works this way as well. </p>