-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Stephen Ward wrote: > 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 > 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.
:) Oh, this is too good. You obviously don't read *MY* blog, how sad. I have one thing to say: Freeside http://sisd.com/freeside It does all of that stuff and more, except for currently billing via PayPal (look for this probably before too long) optional plugin usage of rt for ticketing, and SQLedger for accounting (others do exports to proprietary systems) GPL, Perl, and a great local devel group :) > > 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. > > 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". :) > It can run on MySQL too, but the schema is a touch out of date, haven't had the time to bring it back to head. This wouldn't be too hard though, especially if you are willing to use a more recent mysql. Otherwise, PG is the main target. - -Jayce^ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQFExwu2A10/0O8cAHgRAmJ5AJ9hgIzFhyTVaZEOdkuTpc2olvJzJQCfarsI f5U6KXWQXM6NTggfmzYDEW8= =IG03 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
