WHMCS has been my preferred web based invoicing tool for website hosting and consulting work.
Thanks, -Bill On Jun 30, 2013, at 4:11 AM, Morgan Blackthorne wrote: > So, something I do is that I provide web hosting / tech consulting on the > side for some friends of mine. Most of them are free, but a few of them are > paying clients. Most of the people who do pay do so on a yearly basis, and > with my memory, that leads me to often forgetting to invoice them. One client > usually pays around tax return time, and just recently had a tech issue that > he reached out to me on, and while we were talking he asked if he'd paid this > year or not (he hadn't). While looking up whether he had, I realized that > there was a whole year that I missed from him, a few years back-- obviously > longer than I would like to bring up at this point. > > I'm wondering if anyone knows of a simple, easy to use billing system that I > could use for my small client base. I don't have the time or inclination to > learn something like MS Money or Quickbooks or the like; I don't need > anything nearly that complicated. Just something that can kick off on a > monthly basis and send out invoices as needed. If I do it right, I can even > have it do so for some of my free clients, with a discount applied; that way > if they choose to toss me a donation towards hosting costs (as some have > asked to do from time to time) they can, but they don't need to since the > invoiced sum will be $0. Or one of the clients I have has offered to pay me, > but I can't be their full-time on call person (my choice, spoons and all), > but then I could invoice them when I do do things for them (updating > WordPress and Invision Board mainly). > > Operating system doesn't matter; I have Windows, Mac, and Linux available to > me. Something web based or designed to run in the background (ie, not relying > on me to remember to run it) on a scheduled basis would be preferable. If it > can hook into Paypal to actually send the invoices, even better, since that's > how I take payments. > > Thanks for any suggestions. > > -- > ~*~ StormeRider ~*~ > > "Every world needs its heroes [...] They inspire us to be better than we are. > And they protect from the darkness that's just around the corner." > > (from Smallville Season 6x1: "Zod") > > On why I hate the phrase "that's so lame"... http://bit.ly/Ps3uSS > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/
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