[Ask IH] I'm ditching my invoice software and want open source
[Ask IH] I'm ditching my invoice software and want open source
Over the next few months I'm moving away from many of my client paid jobs in an effort to get into better routines. One of the side effects of this is that many of the small business payments I make need to be culled. This includes my invoice program.
To be honest if I can't find what I need I'm simply going to build it.
Does anyone know of an open source software that can achieve the following?
- Manage tax % on an invoice level (don't simply reduce individual row item prices. Yes, this is a thing)
- Send recurring email reminders to customers on a weekly basis. Forever (most only send reminders once)
- PDF Export
- Pretty invoices
To be honest I don't care about programming language.
I don't know if you already started working on something but did you check out invoice ninja?
Oh, and in case you were interested my plan is now to quickly create a small MVP program for myself, however there will be room to allow additional users should I want to go down that track.
I have looked into them in the past as a good internal tool for me.
What was a big blocker for me was how they approached inclusive taxes. If you apply an inclusive tax (which is a big requirement to me) to any invoice you'll find that it will automatically change your unit costs downwards by your tax %... Turn tax on and off and instead of reverting to the original number and back it takes the tax % off again... and again...
I would prefer it applying the tax as a simple calculation manipulation instead of the numbers that you just put in your invoices.