This is a feature I want and I know a feature many other people want too.  I’m looking for a service that will convert the HTML invoices into a PDF version. By doing it this way all of the custom designs will still work which is ideal. I’ve found services that do this but none that are really free(that I can run on the server) so I’m resorting to the next best thing, free but it’s an external site.  You will now notice a ’save as pdf’ button on the invoice preview page. This will popup a new window which will then convert the invoice into a pdf document. This is not what I really want but it should satisfy most peoples needs until I find a decent free one or some nice person/business to donate a licence for a commercial product.

I found out what the problem was, it seems Internet Explorer does not like image buttons so I had to change some of the code so it works in IE.  Changing the code did not effect the other browsers and I tested it in all of them to make sure everything works as well. While I was using IE I cleaned some stuff that was sticking out like a sore thumb too..all cosmetic issues but if you’re an IE user you might notice things look a little better now.

Just a side not, I would recommend people use FireFox not only because it’s more stable but it’s what I use to test in so all the features are known to work in that browser.

The top bar in the view invoice section was getting cluttered with the addition of the make payment section. I’ve removed the buttons and I’ve added some new icons which not only makes everything fit but I think it looks much better now too.  All the same functions are there they are just icons now instead of buttons.

This was a feature I wanted for launch but never made it. We’ve had some requests for it so I’ve bumped it up the list and it’s now up and running.  When you view your invoice there will be an option to make a payment to the invoice on the top right corner.  If a payment is made the balance on the invoice will reflect this.  Since there was not a balance or payment field in the old template I’ve added two new fields to the original template for this….you can see this on the Default template now. I moved the old template without balances and payments to the second default invoice.

For those of you using custom designs you might want to add these to your templates. The two new variables that were created are

invoice.display_payments   -  Shows the total payments for this invoice
invoice.display_balance  - Shows the balance.  This will be the total if no payments have been applied.

There are also two new variables available in the email settings section for both of these new fields.  If you notice any bugs please report them to the forum.

You will also notice you can set what type of payment it is, credit, cash, etc. These are the commons ones I use, if you would like another option added here let me know. This is an optional field.

I noticed a kind of big bug and thought it should be fixed. The bug was the quantity could only be whole numbers and when testing time-sheet imports I noticed it would accept decimals quantity/hours but would not save them. I’ve fixed the bug so all invoices can now except two decimals for quantity/hours.

I’ve also made some small fixed to templates and sort orders.

Weird but there seems to be a surge of emails wondering how much Invoice Journal costs.  In case you missed it on the homepage, Invoice Journal is FREE.  You can sign-up, create and send invoices for nothing, zero dollars and zero cents. Why, well, I’m a nice guy. :P  Invoice Journal was created to fill a void in the invoice product market, I’m not out to make my millions of it. If you enjoy it help me out and spread the word(link on your homepage), that way when I do create a product to make me millions I can show it off to all of you.

So, in conclusion, Invoice Journal is free and will always be free.*

*Unless someone wants to buy it for umm, lets say $2,000,000 then they can do what they want including charging. But since I’m assuming that will never happen Invoice Journal will remain free!

Fixed some minor bugs that were reported and had to rearrange how the invoices screen looks to fit the new tags feature in.  I think it’s cleaner and works better now, let me know what you think.

I had some spare time on my flight to the Bahamahs(YIPPEE) so I decided to do another feature request. TAGS!!  At first I didn’t feel the need for this but now that it’s in place I love it and I can see it growing to be very useful. You will notice a new tag column in the invoice overview section, this allows you to see any tags assigned to an invoice. I might have to change this because if you assign too many tags to an invoice it looks pretty bad. You can assign tags to invoices by checking the box to the left of the invoice and then selected the tag from the drop-down box…then execute.  You can clear them in a similar fashion. To add or remove tags from you system there is a new option in the Settings section. Browse over there and setup some tags to try it out.

Oh…and you can search on tags…did this on the train this morning.  If you enter a tag name in the Name field on the invoices list page and search it will display all the tags matching that name. Future plans will allow you to search on multiple tags and search on names at the same time.

You can now upload your own invoice templates.  This was a feature that many people wanted, it seems this is lacking in many other popular products and it makes sense to me that people should be able to have their own custom invoice template.  I’ve uploaded a very basic template design to give everyone a jump-start on their designs. With this you can see how it’s done and create your own. There is a new section under the Settings section that will allow you to upload your own designs and then you can simply set this design on any invoice when you’re editing it.  Feel free to post up any nice designs you create to share with other people.

Invoice Template: 

http://www.invoicejournal.com/invoice1_template.html

Yeah, so my plan to make your email/pass from invoice journal work on the forum worked but didn’t work. :/ I put registration back up until I get some time to look at this again, I just hate have registration because I get so much spam.