Now that I’ve founded a company, one thing that we are concerning about is a invoice software. We are right now analyzing a few options.
One of them is Invoy, a simple Invoice Software for Mac. I’ve been in touch with the Empty Factory guys and I’ve been testing a few betas of the software. Today 1.0 version was released and the price announced: only 25 euros!
Invoy is a really simple program: It lets you manage Clients and Items, and produce documents. And way more usable than golias programs like the Portuguese PHC. It really has the feeling of belonging to OS X, you can even drag contacts from the address book into your client list! You can also export documents to PDF, Numbers, Excel, email them (optional integration with Mail.app) or just print it like you didn’t care for the environment.
Right now it supports two languages: Portuguese and English, but in the next versions this list will increase. This is really an international product, but it follows some regional-specific rules like SAFT-PT, for instance.
This is an excellent software for Mac-users who do freelance work, or small companies with only a computer to deal this kind of stuff. This is not the case of JeKnowledge: although the mac ration is pretty high, we can’t narrow our choices, we need a multi-platform software. And we also need a centralized database. Invoy has a small SQLite database (which makes it really simple to backup!) but right now you can’t have a shared database across the network. But if you are one of those cases, Invoy make the €25 worth it!