Are there any plans to add a past due field to the invoices?

Marcus S. Zarra
Zarra Studios LLC
www.zarrastudios.com
Simply Elegant Software for OS X

Hi Marcus

Can you elabourate on what you're looking for? I don't think we have plans for this specifically, but you could probably use the Comments field to manually show that?

Thx,

On 11/1/2006 I bill a customer $200.00
On 11/15/2006 I bill a customer $150.00

However, the customer has not paid the $200.00 from 11/1/2006 yet. So the invoice would show:

current charges $150.00
past due $200.00
total due $350.00

I have this very same concern any replies?

None. I ended up changing to another product.

Marcus S. Zarra
Zarra Studios LLC
Simply Elegant Software for OS X
www.zarrastudios.com

you could issue a 'Statement' of account. It's a workaround but it seems to work for me. See.

http://forums.marketcircle.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/5781056583/m/5261008264

This is one of the larger "holes" in Billings.

If I invoice my client and they make a partial payment. I don't have the ability to send another invoice for the outstanding balance.

I love Billings, it has greatly simplified my time keeping and invoicing tasks.

However....this is a HUGE requirement when doing invoices. A person needs to have the ability to show past due amounts on new invoices to get a new total, and also should have the ability to add in interest on past due amounts if desired.

Billings needs to seriously add this to the software, and respond to these requests.

Hi All

Just a note, we have in fact responded to these requests many times on the forums. The forms are not for feature requests, those should be sent using the menu commands in Billings (we have special email addresses for that). That way, they go into our system and we can actually count the number of requests, which helps us prioritize what to add to Billings and Daylite.

The forums are for user-to-user feedback, not a support mechanism or a place that we monitor for enhancement requests, though we do participate here and try to get and share ideas.

With regard to this, we have heard a lot on this issue. We have some things to figure out (there are some accounting practices to consider, beyond technical issues), but I can tell you that this, along with better retainer handling, per-client billing, and multi-user support, are high on our list! ;-)

Naturally, for competitive reasons, I can't share any specific plans or timelines with you. However, I can reiterate our commitment to the products and to making it an ever better and always simpler solution! Also, I would recommend searching and browsing these forums which have lots of ideas about how to achieve some of what you're looking for.

HTH

True; this forum is not for feature requests. However, it is nice for people search the forum to find out that a seemingly simple operation, is in fact, not so simple, or non-existent.

Question: Is this a feature request or a deficiency that should be addressed as a matter of priority meet the purported standard MC holds itself out to have achieved? Now we have to pay for the upgrade. Is this fair? I really don't know.

Any thoughts? Or is this not a forum for thoughts?

Hi Tim,

Thoughts are welcome on these forums. We like to hear what our customers think and get their feedback on our products.

Concerning your issue, I don't think it is unfair for this to be an upgrade. We have never yet charged for an upgrade since the first version of Billings - 2 and 2.5 were both free upgrades. Many other billings solutions are web-based and require you to pay monthly to continue using the service. In that situation, I would expect new features to be added for no additional charge.

The price of this upgrade is less than the cost to use most web-based billing services for 2 months, so I think it is priced quite reasonably. If this is a product you use daily or even weekly, the investment should pay off rather quickly.

We have done our best to add new features that we hope our customers will find useful. The decision is up to you whether it is worthwhile to upgrade.