Leonard Burton wrote:
HI All,
What do you all use for keeping track of invoices?
I looked at a few open source projects (including
http://billing-software.us/) and it seems that there is not really a
good Open Source Project out there for invoices. Am I wrong?
What would be nice is a project with a good API that would allow other
projects to use its invoice handling capabilities. It would be nice
if it weren't designed for one specific situation.
Have I missed the boat here? Is there a nice OS Invoice program that
will do all this? Has anyone considered starting one?
Thanks,
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Leonard Burton, N9URK
PHP has become a bit of a breeze for me to use, thanks
to its authors (who came up with a nice syntax and great
docs) and its community (who didn't flame me too much
when I was a newbie, less than 5 years ago).
As a result, my business is managed by a "home grown"
app --- calendar, checkbook management, invoicing,
task list, local messaging, some accounting computations,
mileage computation, expense records, etc.
ATM, I'm adding "trouble tickets" to the mix, and a few
other ditties.
Now, if there's nothing else out there, I can imagine
it would be nice to release it, but, as I mention, I'm
a relative "newbie", and started coding it 4 years ago
and much of it is have never been updated. Much is from
before I learned that web standards existed (I learned
HTML from reading the source created by MS FrontPage
Express in the late 1990s, [ugh!!!]), and I'm not a geek
by training (so, I've a shelf of books on OOP and still
haven't a great handle on it, but there again comes PHP
to the rescue), so "open sourcing" it might well take
so much cleaning up that it would kill me. And if it's
not cleaned up, it'd probably be as traumatic as appearing
on American Idol in a Speedo (at my age, not very pretty
at all; or you can sub in "hosting a Tupperware party in the
nude" if you wish, but who would?).
Anyway, I guess my point was, "rolling your own isn't the
end of the world" (unless you want the world to see it).
All that said, have you looked at Hermes, CentraView (not
PHP, IIRC) or NOLA? ATM, I can't even recall what NOLA
does, but I seem to recall that it was fairly generic (may
have been more of a retail-frontend).
Also, a quick Googling turns up a rather long list at:
http://cbbrowne.com/info/financefreesoft.html
Good luck, HTH,
Kevin Kinsey
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