Recently, we downloaded, installed, and ran Simple Invoices to get a feel for its capabilities.
We found Simple Invoices to be a well-featured invoicing application. It is an open source, web based solution that supports taxes and has a very user friendly invoice creation form. Although easy to use once installed, installation requires some technical PHP skills, which may keep a lot of less technical people from using the application.
Pros
- Support for taxes
- Itemized or Total-style invoices
- Simple to use invoice creation form
- Invoices can be exported in PDF, Excel and Word
- Custom fields
- Invoice from multiple companies
Cons
- Installation problems
- Confusing initial setup
- Navigation menu counter intuitive
- No currency
- No custom log
- No discounts capability
- No online payments
Give it a try
You can try the demo installation at the Open Source As A Service site: http://www.osaas.org/simpleinvoices/
Username: demo@osaas.org
Password: demo123
Those application are for small to medium size businesses that can afford the implementation and configuration cost. But on the long run they have a very low cost of owner ship compare to their commercial counterpart.
This is a Review and demo of Bamboo Invoice its a free web based invoicing application.
Quick summary
The application is 100% complete but you’ll need a web hosting account to get it installed and working for your business.
It’s very simple but supports all the features you’d expect in doing an invoice. The user interface is clean and easy to use. For the most part I found it intuitive — never had to look for too long to find what I needed.
I could create an invoice, generate a PDF, send it by email to a client, and record the payments.
Couple of things were missing or couldn’t be found: mainly recurrent invoices. I found how to duplicate an existing invoice but couldn’t set invoices to automatically repeat themselves every month.
The online payment support could be a plus, especially since its a paid option on most online systems.
Pros
Its nice looking and intuitive
Open source and customizable
Multi-language
Cons
No recurring invoices
No Online Payments
Requires a web hosting account
Screen shots
Detail of an Invoice
Invoice In PDF
Reports
Online Demo
We installed a demo at Open Source Software As A Service so you can try it your self: http://www.osaas.org/bambooinvoice/
Demo account is:
Username: demo@osaas.org
Password: demo123
PS: the demo resets itself every hour.
Demonstration of AcroYoga by Lara Catone and Sarah Vosen at Yogaglo:
AcroYoga blends the spiritual wisdom of yoga, the loving kindness of Thai massage, and the dynamic power of Acrobatics. These three ancient lineages form the foundation of a unique new practice that cultivates trust, connection and playfulness through partner work.
More at: http://www.acroyoga.org/la/
Then, just after the filming crew left, Forbes Life did a short description of Yogaglo in Find of The Day
In the past week Derik, Yogaglo’s founder, also arranged interviews with the LA Times and Huffington Post.
When you take a look at what Yogaglo users are saying, no wonder its a success:
Here’s another update from Paris. I’m sure you’re busy, but i just want to send you all my gratitude for yogaglo. It’s revolutionary!
Thanks to your service I’ve found a solution – and more!
Martin, Paris, France
The website design is beautiful. Clean, crisp look and nicely organized. I will be spreading the word to friends in the weeks to come. The seamless movement between the 15-minute segments requiring no manual clicking is as good as I’ve seen in online video. The volume of the music is solid. I think Jo is a star yogi teacher and even better person. Best of luck!
Kevin, New York City
What a perfect celebration of the power, peace, diversity, and radiance of our global lifestyle community.
Yogaglo has uniquely innovated a multi-platform brand which will sustain the test of time; and lead with relevance, grace, and style.
Yogaglo.com is a virtual Conscious Community Center reflecting the heartbeat of those devoted to building boundless bridges inward and outbound.
Thank you for being the connector to those of like mind and heart.
Imagine the potential….
Tracy, Los Angeles
I just found out about this site/concept today. I think it’s brilliant! Bravo to you for making this a reality. I look forward to practicing with you here in San Francisco.
Trish, San Francisco
You can read more Yogaglo testimonials at Yogaglo’s Blog: Testimonials
I had the opportunity to spend some time with Jose DaVeiga in his home in west LA for an interview on how Klicksports came to be, and for a demo of the technology.
We have 2 videos: one with the interview of Jose (on him and his company) and the other with a demo of their technology.
In this interview, Jose reveals how, inspired by the promises of interactive TV, he invented the perfect interactive platform for sports games in 2001 and made it a reality five years later.
MyDnD, formally known as liveap, purchased a license of our Drag n Drop site creator 6 months ago, and since then have made several major improvements and customizations to it.
They are about to launch their 2.0 version and are gaining strong traction with some major partnership I can’t mention yet. They just got a blurb in Techcrunch Europe along with the other big players in the do it yourself web site market.
Paul Christian, founder of MyDragNDrop, is showing impressive business development skills. It’s perfect to reach small businesses with a free, do-it-yourself web site builder.
And its also great to see our technology at such great use.
At the Yogaglo / LA Yoga festival I had the chance to talk with Kayoko, the founder of YogaGivesBack. From the yoga community they bring support to women in India with micro lending.
I spoke a couple minutes with Kayoko about Yogagivesback and micro credit.
If you are interested in participating, come at a special fund raiser class the 26th of July at Yogaglo. Take an amazing Yoga class and the $25 donation will go to YogaGivesBack.
It included LA Yoga magazine and over 50 sponsors from the Yoga, health and sustainable community. It was a great success with high turn out. I had the chance to meet very interesting people and will post interviews in follow up blog posts.
Yogaglo is not just an Online video site — it’s also a community, and the success of this event showed us how big the community is.
In the video you will see Derik Mills (blue yogaglo t-shirt), the founder of Yogaglo. To listen to the full speech you can go to the yogaglo.com blog. The suspended Yogi is using the Omgym system and in the end there’s a short interview with Kayoko Mistumastu, co-founder of YogaGivesBack.
Disclaimer: SQLFusion implemented the web site, video processing and hosting of Yogaglo.com
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