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Re: Do you meed Mobile Electronic Time and Invoicing?

SanDiegoTech — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:21:46 GMT

Have you taken a look at freshbooks.com for simple invoicing?

Also, if you have a Windows Mobile Smartphone, I wrote a free app to track and submit your time on te go called FreshMobile:

http://www.gilham.org/Blog/Lists/Posts/Po
st.aspx?ID=214

The iphone also works with freshbooks to my knowledge with the website version as well.

Best Regards,
John

Re: Electronic Invoicing

Gamgam — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:29:33 GMT

Frank,

1) Quickbooks has a rich Invoicing product that you can use to send invoices

2) Intuit also has a FREE Web-based invoicing app called Billing Manager. (http://www.billingmanager.com/). There are no limits on the # of customers one can add or the # of invoices one can send.

The app sends your clients basic text e-mails and also includes a link to an invoice page where clients can see a nicely formatted invoice, pay their bill, or set a reminder if they don't want to at the moment.

Billing Manager users can accept credit card payments once they sign up for Quick Books Merchant Service. Billing Manager merchants can also accept Credit Card payments over the phone by using a Virtual Terminal product that is integrated with Billing Manager.

You

Re: Electronic Invoicing

SJCarpentry — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:20:59 GMT

Not to sound like a Bank of America shill, but we also use their invoicing and have been really happy with it.

Re: Electronic Invoicing

alexeig — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:08:19 GMT

Which way would you prefer to do it - via web, or through a locally installed software?

Re: Electronic Invoicing

karaokekrazy — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:47:06 GMT

Bank Of America offers a service that cannot be compared with any other software out in the market. Business account holders with online banking can upgrade their service to Online Business Suite with Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable.
Online Business Suite can let you view personal, business within the bank or from other financial instutions with just one sign on. You can delegate access to employees, partners and accountants to view account info or make financial transactions, while you maintain secure and confidential control. Plus, you can use quickbooks or quicken and synchronize transactions.
For electronic invoicing, with accounts receivable, you can generate 20 invoices and apply incoming payments, send reminder emails and past due notices and view detailed history of invoices.
For direct payments, you can reimburse employees expenses, pay individuals or companies directly to their bank account using standard 3 day or next day payment.
All of these are available through Bank Of America.
If you have an existing business account, you can call in to upgrade your online service.

Re: Electronic Invoicing

danny3130 — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:01:23 GMT

Hi - I am a small business owner and I do about 200 invoices per year. I have just upgraded to Quickbooks 2008 Pro.
I typically e-mail all my invoices through quickbooks. You can also do Estimates and then convert your estimaes into invoices - its easy. You can also fax invices through Quickbooks. Most of my contcats do lik ethe fact that I can e-mail the invoice to them. I use Bank of America on-line Banking for all my Payroll checks. You can buy checks through Quickbooks or anyone but its costly.

Re: Electronic Invoicing

SanDiegoTech — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:16:39 GMT

I would recommend the following two products:

Freshbooks (~$15-$50 a month with free plan available)
https://www.freshbooks.com/subscribe.php?ref=905c24b733628-1

100% internet hosted, no install
Multi-User
Invoices delivered either paper (professionally, wit return envelope) or email
Customers can manage their billing/invoice status/etc online 24x7
Supports Paypal free or Visa/MC with merchant accounts
Supports subscriptions/recurring invoices
Employees enter time online by support ticket or daily
Multiple project billing, support ticket (with billable time tracking)
Simple interface, invoicing only (no account management)
Focused on invoicing for service providers
Only handles invoicing, project tracking, support tickets (not accounting)

Microsoft Account Express (Free)
http://www.ideawins.com/default.aspx

Supports invoicing by email or printing/manual mail
Has Paypal Addin to invoice customers electronically via email
eBay tool simplifies listing management
More features than freshbooks
Handles invoices and business accounting
Did I mention free!!
Upgradable to Microsoft's "Professional" accounting products in the future.
Does not sync automatically with Bank of America...Bank of America is one of the few banks that makes you manually download the statments to integrate with Microsoft Accounting.

Personally, I use both for my service business...Hope this helps!

John

PS - Try www.wesabe.com to keep track of your business and personal expenses too...and import them in to MS accounting. BoA limits the time you can access your account history offline (no limit with Wesabe), and you can "tag" expenses and export all the information (years with). Wesabe automatically syncs from BoA and your other accounts.

Re: Electronic Invoicing

moogrdotcom — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:46:18 GMT

Microsoft Office Accounting 2008 Express Edition is free and sounds like a perfect match for what you need. You can download it as well as browse the tons of great small business resources at ideawins.com

Re: Electronic Invoicing

LUCKIEST — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:17:31 GMT

Frank, so far you have received 7 answers to your post.
Have any of the answers been helpful to you??
LUCKIEST

Re: Electronic Invoicing

CorpCons08 — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:11:31 GMT

Microsoft Office Accounting creates great invoices.
It also integrates with all of the Microsoft Office applications.

CC08