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Re: Show HN: Invoice-o-matic – a free online invoice tool

#21
I'd love to be able to specify the subtotal after VAT is applied as well, since that's often what you quote in practice and converting that to pre-VAT prices is a PITA.

VAT is also actually called BTW here, so the ability to change how VAT is called would be useful as well.

Re: Show HN: Invoice-o-matic – a free online invoice tool

#22

I wrote something similar to this a few years ago: http://billable.me There's nothing wrong with a bit of competition and it makes me wonder if this space needs something... Why do these keep appearing?

There's a big political push in the UK for "electronic invoicing". This makes sense in that context.

Re: Show HN: Invoice-o-matic – a free online invoice tool

#23

I wrote something similar to this a few years ago: http://billable.me There's nothing wrong with a bit of competition and it makes me wonder if this space needs something... Why do these keep appearing?

I started my freelancing career with billable.me. Moved on to complexer tools by now, but I definitely made a few thousand euro with the help of your free tool.

Thanks!

Re: Show HN: Invoice-o-matic – a free online invoice tool

#24
post #23

I wrote something similar to this a few years ago: http://billable.me There's nothing wrong with a bit of competition and it makes me wonder if this space needs something... Why do these keep appearing?

I started my freelancing career with billable.me. Moved on to complexer tools by now, but I definitely made a few thousand euro with the help of your free tool. Thanks!

What tools did you start using after billlableme?

Re: Show HN: Invoice-o-matic – a free online invoice tool

#25
post #21

I'd love to be able to specify the subtotal after VAT is applied as well, since that's often what you quote in practice and converting that to pre-VAT prices is a PITA. VAT is also actually called BTW here, so the ability to change how VAT is called would be useful as well.

BTW is such a great name for a value added tax: "Oh, by the way, here's x more!"

Re: Show HN: Invoice-o-matic – a free online invoice tool

#26

I dont get it. How is this so much better than having a, say, rtf document template on your own computer and emailing attachments from there? Or if you want to email a pdf there's printing to e.g cute pdf.

it's just one step instead of 2,3, etc

better mousetrap :)

Re: Show HN: Invoice-o-matic – a free online invoice tool

#28
post #8

That's all? I expected something like duetapp or better.. :/ Here's the same, but opensource so that you can customize to your own needs. http://css-tricks.com/html-invoice/

Note how that doesn't create a PDF.

Note that pretty much everyone has a PDF printer driver installed nowadays.

Re: Show HN: Invoice-o-matic – a free online invoice tool

#29
post #23

I wrote something similar to this a few years ago: http://billable.me There's nothing wrong with a bit of competition and it makes me wonder if this space needs something... Why do these keep appearing?

I started my freelancing career with billable.me. Moved on to complexer tools by now, but I definitely made a few thousand euro with the help of your free tool. Thanks!

That's really great to hear! :)

Re: Show HN: Invoice-o-matic – a free online invoice tool

#30

I wrote something similar to this a few years ago: http://billable.me There's nothing wrong with a bit of competition and it makes me wonder if this space needs something... Why do these keep appearing?

What technology did you use to build it? Or generate the PDF that fast?
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