http://www.acuinvoice.com/forum/ AcuInvoice Forum: Powerful Online Invoicing Forum: Announcements en Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:21:46 +0000 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/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/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>