Invoicing updates: localized invoices, usability (non-members welcome)

N.M. Eklund wrote:
I'm fiddling around with the invoices and noticed a tiny bug. Let me know if this is not the right forum for this.

I created a 'Days' unit in my French invoice, and when I saved the draft the volume number and volume label switched places, i.e. instead of reading "20 jours" it reads "jours 20".

Thanks!
Natalia

Jesús Marín Mateos wrote:
That is my problem. In the invoice setting page I have put my bank account etc and the term as 30 days..... well it stays there for 1 day and next day it dissapears....not sure what to do....Thanks.

Jason Grimes wrote:



Hi Jesús,

I was finally able to reproduce this problem, and I think it is fixed now. Thanks very much for bringing it to my attention (twice!).

Several other users may also have been affected by this glitch, which caused invoice settings to revert to defaults in some cases. To anyone else who has updated their invoice settings on this page: please double-check those settings and update them again if they weren't retained. The problem should be resolved now, but if it happens again please do let me know. I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

Best regards,

Jason

Chun Un wrote:
This new tool has been great for me. I've been using it for two months now for actual invoicing and seeing it improving constantly. Thank you!

I'm just being nit-picking here: should 'Bill To' be 'Bill to' with a lowercase 't' to be consistent with the rest of the invoice?

Hans G. Liepert wrote:
the test invoice I was creating displayed in the address the ZIP code the usual US oder UK way (behind the city).
In Europe the ZIP code usually stands in front of the city (UK still considered to be a lonely island in the Atlantic).
While my Swiss canton (state) has been disabled in the profile, it reappears in the sender's address - which looks pretty weird.

Jesús Marín Mateos wrote:
I am using this tool and have ditched my accountancy book..... hope it works.... however I am really missing the expenses pages I had where I put my expenses like train tickets, telephone charges, and others.... at the end of the year I only had to sum them all up and it was very helpful to do my selfassessment...... would it be possible to add something similar here????? If it were there I would add a line everytime I received some expenses......... I was thinking if payable was for this???? Not sure....

Khaled Al-Shehari wrote:
I'm really happy and grateful for such a brilliant tool and also for the so rapid improvment. This is a very highly achievement made by Proz.com. When I send an invoice to my client, I wonder why a copy of it comes to my spam folder in my yahoo mail. I'm afraid if this is also the case that the invoice goes to his/her spam folder!! Any way to prevent invoices go to spam folders other than adding the contact to the address book?

Per Riise wrote:

I really like the concept of this invoicing tool, so here's my take on suggested improvements: I'd like the drafts to be created w/o having to add an invoice #. When I decide to save the invoice as an invoice (rather than a draft), that's when I should be prompted to add the invoice #. Tjhe reasoning behind this, is that sometimes, I do minor jobs for agencies, and since this is not a one-off (i.e. I don't put it on the house), they send me a PO for the job, and so I have to register this job somewhere, but I don't intend to send an invoice for that small amount. I'd rather wait until the following month, when said agency comes back with a bigger job. As it is now, I'm stuck with an invoice # that doesn't match with the date (e.g.: invoice #5 is sent three months earlier than invoice #3).

Jason Grimes wrote:



Hi Natalia,

The French invoice template shows units this way on purpose--I was under the impression that in French, numbers always come after the noun. Is this incorrect? Should the French invoice template show the unit as "{volume} {unit}" (ex. "20 jours") instead of "{unit} {volume}"? (Please note that any error in this regard was mine, and not that of the freelancer who translated the text of the invoice template into French.)

Thanks for your help.

Jason