Simply Invoices

Simply Invoices version 1.3 is now running. What’s the biggest change? Invoice templates now allow you to choose a language for the invoice. Available options are English, Spanish, German and French.

Thanks to Carmen Ruiz of motiongrafixs for help with the Spanish translation and Norman Janssen of mediacode for help with the German translation. I couldn’t round up a volunteer for the French translation, so Google gets credit for that.

Pleaselet me know about errors in the translations.

Also in this release is support for a tax rate in the invoice template. Carmen pointed out that this is inadequate for a lot of European customers needing to charge multiple tax rates. I hope to add custom tax fields in an upcoming release.

This release also fixes a bug in the image upload process. Some of you may have noticed that your images weren’t being sized correctly. That has been fixed.

Enjoy!

What’s next? A lot of people have been requesting fixed priced line items and the ability to charge per day instead of per hour. I hope to update the invoice editor to allow more flexibility. The hard part will be keeping everything simple :) I don’t yet have an estimated date for this release. Feel free to drop into the Campfire chat and ask me for status.

A common request is for the ability to send invoices to clients that don’t speak English. This feature is in Beta now.

The current list of languages I’m supporting is: English (done :D), Spanish, French and German.

I’d love to add to that list. If you speak another language and wouldn’t mind translating a very small set of words/phrases please contact me and I’ll send you the list.

Along with this update I plan to add support for tax fields to the invoices. That should be in the next beta update.

I expect these features to be deployed to the main site later this week.