Hi list, I run a tiny little web hosting business (I have a grand total of 5 clients). I've been keeping my books in some pretty basic spreadsheets, but I'd like to think there's a better (and still free) way.
Here's what I'm thinking I want: 1. Recurring billing. Although it would be nice to have this automated (I'm looking at "Subscriptions and Recurring Payments" through PayPal), it's not entirely necessary. If I could at least set up a cron job that will generate new invoices for me, that would be just fine. 2. Store contact and billing information for each of my clients. 3. Obviously allow me to assign recurring products (ie hosting accounts) to each client at arbitrary prices. 4. Allow me also to add some non-recurring extras to an invoice (I charge hourly rates for things like tech support). 5. Generate useful/interesting/fun reports (particularly around tax time). 6. Any other cool thing you can think of that I haven't. I apologize if some of what I described doesn't seem very well thought-out. Part of my problem is I don't know exactly what I'm after, but I do know there has to be something better than my spreadsheets. At any rate, I just thought I'd query the community wisdom for some tips. Cheers, Stephen P.S. I'm currently running Apache 2 and MySQL so stuff that runs well in that environment would be groovy, though I'm not opposed to something else if it "just works". :) -- Ray tracing rules: http://ray-tracer.blogspot.com /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
