Does it have an API? Also integration with Stripe?
Our next build (very soon) will integrate with Stripe's API, yes!
Invoice Ninja
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#52"About us" should really be.... about you, not some strange mix of "features" and "technology". Given the number short-lived web apps that appear and disappear, the about us page is becoming one of the most important. Any "about us" that doesn't mention people is an immediate close for me. It doesn't matter if you're a one-man band, put up a picture and work out what details of your life so far will cause people to t…
I actually agree to this. Gaining the trust of the user is pretty critical now a days. The question I ask my self when I visit a web app is "Why should I give you my information and what will you do with it?
I immediately distrust all startups that don't have a team page with real human beings on it.
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#53"100% FREE, ALWAYS" What's the catch? How are they going to make money? Harvest invoice data? Really the only reason I use Freshbooks is for the 50-cent Paypal invoices but I first create an actual PDF invoice in OpenOffice.
Thanks for your comment! We will not "harvest invoice data", rather in the near future we'll be offering more advanced payment gateway options for those who want to move off PayPal.
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#54"About us" should really be.... about you, not some strange mix of "features" and "technology". Given the number short-lived web apps that appear and disappear, the about us page is becoming one of the most important. Any "about us" that doesn't mention people is an immediate close for me. It doesn't matter if you're a one-man band, put up a picture and work out what details of your life so far will cause people to t…
This is good feedback, thank you! Expect an "About the Invoice Ninja Team" page soon. For now... here's a link to my blog http://hillelcoren.com/ . I've been building apps for a while now and stand 100% behind anything I create. This project is team affair though. I realize trust is earned and I hope we're given the chance to earn it. Edit: added 'to' (grammar mistakes kill me)
As Hillel mentioned we're revamping the static pages ASAP. AND we have a content to assist with typos:)
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#55Out of curiosity, why did you choose to write a new web application in PHP?
I'm not a web developer, but everything I hear about PHP is bad.
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#56You should charge something for this. Even if you charged $10/year, it at least gives the impression that there is a contract and agreement in place that you will maintain the service and protect and provide the service. I have no interest, personally, in entering a bunch of invoice data in a service that might get shut down in a year after the developers lose interest in maintaining something that they lose money on…
Hi Brandon! Email is also free, Facebook is free, waze, twitter, etc... We will NOT be charging a monthly or annual fee for InvoiceNinja.com Email us to discuss: contact@invoiceninja.com
Nothing is free. E-mail is either provided by your ISP (which you pay for) or ads are displayed alongside the e-mail messages. Facebook publishes ads. Twitter publishes ads.
Will you be publishing ads on invoices? What is your plan to have the service be sustainable into the future?
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#57You should charge something for this. Even if you charged $10/year, it at least gives the impression that there is a contract and agreement in place that you will maintain the service and protect and provide the service. I have no interest, personally, in entering a bunch of invoice data in a service that might get shut down in a year after the developers lose interest in maintaining something that they lose money on…
Hi Brandon! Email is also free, Facebook is free, waze, twitter, etc... We will NOT be charging a monthly or annual fee for InvoiceNinja.com Email us to discuss: contact@invoiceninja.com
So the service is ad sponsored like those services? And is mining data to target that advertising? I can't see any of that, but if you explicitly compare yourself to that sort of service without specifying otherwise it is an assumption many will make and won't be happy with.
Without some obvious sign of how the service intends to fund itself a lot of people will walk away assuming that it is advertising and/or mining (which they won't like for their invoices), that it will go away as soon as some unknown reserve runs out, or that it will suddenly become expensive once they are dependent on it. They won't believe "we never intend to charge" (they've heard that before and it hasn't always been true) and won't email you to ask (they just head off on their merry way).
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#58you should apply for a .ninja domain
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#59You should charge something for this. Even if you charged $10/year, it at least gives the impression that there is a contract and agreement in place that you will maintain the service and protect and provide the service. I have no interest, personally, in entering a bunch of invoice data in a service that might get shut down in a year after the developers lose interest in maintaining something that they lose money on…
Hi Brandon! Email is also free, Facebook is free, waze, twitter, etc... We will NOT be charging a monthly or annual fee for InvoiceNinja.com Email us to discuss: contact@invoiceninja.com
Those other services have people engaging with them many times per day thus the traffic. Invoicing is a task that you would do maybe once or twice per week ?
Also the live PDF view, which clever, is really also annoying as any typing or mouse hovering makes that area flash.
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#60Many people have asked how this will be sustainable if it's free?
Enabling a ‘Pay Now’ button on an invoice requires configuring a payment provider. PayPal can be good when starting out but as you grow other providers may make more sense.
We will have affiliate links to these providers and will earn a small commission if people sign up.
The most expensive part of this sort of app is the development costs and I work for free. If we were hosting pictures or videos server costs could be an issue but invoice data is just text. I also have an amazing partner who is backing any financial concerns.