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What is the best standard to use for business document exchange (invoices, POs etc)?

If I need to implement sending and receiving of business documents from system to system (invoices, POs, remittance advice, etc) what standard would you recommend for best interop and why? It could be XML or otherwise. ...

Creating PDF Invoices - Are there any templating solutions?

Our company is looking to integrate invoices into a new system we are developing. We require some a solution to create a layout of the invoice and then convert to pdf. We have considered just laying out the invoice in html/css then converting to pdf. We have also considered using SVG->PDf conversion. Both of these solutions integrate...

Software used to create consulting invoices

At any given time, I do consulting for between 2-4 clients, and I'm having some trouble keeping track of the hours and generating invoices. My current solution is to use Google Calendar to track my hours, and then at month-end, manually enter the data on an Excel template I have (one copy for each customer) and email it to them. While th...

Something like Crystal Reports for PHP?

I'm looking for something that works in PHP and is similar to crystal reports. I basically need to have a layout setup that means I can output invoices just by inserting the data, and then send it to a printer. The closest I've found so far is PDFB, but It's a bit of a pain as it needs to have precise positioning. I'd like to have som...

QuickBooks invoice modify has different address behavior than create, how to compensate?

I'm writting a function to take an invoice file in a defined format and import it into QuickBooks via qbXML. One of the requrements is that it be possible to reimport the same invoice number than that the existing invoice be modified rather than create a new one with the same number. The problem I have is with how QuickBooks handles add...

Generating Invoices

I need to generate invoices in large batch which will be transformed to EDI and transported to our HQ. There is an order table with all the orders coming in. At some point in the day I have to grab a set (about 1k) and generate the invoices. Where would be the best place to generate the invoice numbers? On SQL Server backend? Or grab ...

"Font shape undefined" with latex and isodoc

I'm trying to create a simple invoice with pdflatex and the isodoc class. Unfortunately, the "INVOICE" opening is appear in all lowercase, and I suspect this warning is the reason why: LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `T1/lmr/bx/sc' undefined (Font) using `T1/lmr/bx/n' instead on input line 19. My best guess at this crypti...

Newbie to Newbie Ajax tips for ugly Invoice webpage

Some assorted pseudotips about "invoice oriented" master/detail web sites, Examples (but with small detail) and highlights: The demo at SimplyInvoices: the 5 blank items editable without a modal popup detail http://freelanceswitch.com/money/7-online-invoicing-apps-for-freelancers/ has some interesting web sites Questions: Large pr...

How to change the background color of default magento generated invoice pdf that's generated to print?

Hi, Can anyone give any idea on where the html files are located that generates the invoice pdf while trying to print it out(in admin).Also I need to modify the background color from the one as in the default one that is generated by magento. Thanks in advance. ...

how to generate an invoice

Hello, I have started freelancing and a client has asked for an invoice. Do you have a favorite tool for generating invoices? I am after something that I can use from Linux (either a desktop tool or web solution) and generates well formatted Pdf's. thanks ...

prevent duplicate invoice no. against particular ID

I have confusion on how to prevent duplicate InvoiceNo against CompanyId. I just have prepare an Invoice project that has field like CompanyId and InvNo. Both do not have Unique Keys because Company ID and InvoiceNo both have to repeated. as per below CompanyID InvNo 1 1 2 1 1 2 3 1 4 ...

Build a form dynamically with Ajax, jQuery

I'm building a very small web ERP application with PHP / mySQL / CodeIgniter / jQuery The Bill/Invoice is built with current date client data etc Now, I must add products to that new invoice that is being created, without reloading/submitting the page. Each product will have its qtty., description, unit price, subtotal, etc. I'd li...

Copy Selective Data from Database to Invoice, Based on Certain Criteria

For starters, here is an example of a microsoft excel database I am working with: Month/Address/Name/Description/Amount January/123 Street/Fred/Painting/100 January/456 Avenue/Scott/Flooring/400 January/789 Road/Scott/Plumbing/100 February/123 Street/Fred/Flooring/600 February/246 Lane/Fred/Electrical/300 March/789 Road/Scott/Drywall/15...

Invoice Discount: Negative line items vs Internal properties

Should discount on invoice items and entire invoices be negative line items or separate properties of an invoice? In a similar question, Should I incorporate list of fees/discounts into an order class or have them be itemlines, the asker focuses more on orders than invoices (which is a slightly different business entity). Discount is pr...

Invoicing vs Quoting or Estimating

If invoices can be voided, should they be used as quotations? I have an Invoices tables that is created from inventory associated with a Job or Order. I could have a Quotes table as a halfway-house between inventory and invoices, but it feels like I would have duplicate data structures and logic just to handle an "Is this a quote?" bit....

Harmonized sales tax headaches

Alright Im using the BambooInvoice software, and where I am, we have two sales taxes. This is how they work price of item * tax1 = Sum1Tax1 Sum1tax1 *tax2 = Final sales price Currently, Bamboo invoice does this Price of Item * tax1 = pricetax1 price of item * tax2 = pricetax2 Price of item + pricetax1 + pricetax2 and this is its co...

Google checkout invoice through API

Hey all I am trying to find a way of sending email invoice via google checkout's API (and also in PayPal) I can't find how. or at least how to generate a new order (money request) thank you ...

FreshBooks API Libraries

I am new to FreshBooks (not only the API) and I want to use it for some automatically generated invoices. I was trying to run some of the source code examples (the PHP and JS libraries in particular): http://developers.freshbooks.com/api/samplecode/ The problem is that I get an error message: "Connection error" Do I need to set up anyt...

GLAccount Information - Simulate BAPI_INCOMINGINVOICE_CREATE

I am currently working on an application that posts invoices to SAP using Java/JCo. I am using BAPI_INCOMINGINVOICE_CREATE for the purpose and it works perfectly fine. Now I have an additional requirement to preview the GL Account distribution of the gross amount (credits and debits) before confirming the transaction through BAPI_TRANSA...

How can I let the user download the HTML-file?

I would like to create an Invoice in HTML instead of a PDF-file. And I would like to let the user easyli download the HTML-file via a link. How can I do this? If I simply link to the HTML file, it is only "temporarily downloaded" and view in the users web browser. I would like the same effect as when the user download a .zip-file or sim...