[PLUG] web-based invoicing app suggestions
Mark Turner
mturner at bendbulletin.com
Mon Oct 29 20:29:15 UTC 2007
Kurt Sussman wrote:
> I need to set up a simple invoicing app for simultaneous use by 3-4
> people. I have been in charge of checkout for the wine-tasting event at
> my daughter's school for three years, and my solution has failed to work
> properly every time. We haven't lost any invoices, but the 'manualarity'
> of the process increased dramatically as the software failed.
>
> So I'm looking for suggestions. We'll have 40 items for sale, and no
> inventory. I need to import about 400 names and addresses, and if it can
> capture credit card info, great. If not we can handle that separately.
>
> I need to print a clean, simple, complete invoce on the spot, and
> reporting by buyer and by item ordered will be required. There are
> really no other requirements. Enter a list of items and quantities,
> print an invoice, repeat. Fast entry of invoice items (via lookup of the
> 40 items that will be pre-entered) seems like it should be easy.
>
> I've looked at a few allegedly multi-user Windows apps, but they all
> seem to be based on the Access engine, which is not reliable in my
> too-extensive experience. I looked at the invoice pages on SQL-Ledger,
> and they seem to be for a single item. I don't mind the complexity of a
> full GL package as long as invoice entry is simple.
>
> Payware sites are probably not an option, since our margins are thin
> enough as it is. We could maybe buy software this time as long as it
> will be useful for any and all future fundraising events. I would prefer
> something free, obviously. I have server space to set up anything that
> runs on Linux. I can run Windows in a VM on my laptop (KVM is pretty
> cool!) if it comes to that, but that would be really icky.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> TIA!
>
> --Kurt
>
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-mark
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