Paul Built Invoice Utility

Simple little Django application that lets you track project tasks and expenses. Then it generates an email and invoices your customer for you. Even has a neat interest calculating payment schedule. Super light weight and does only what it needs to. Takes the hassle out of invoicing customers.

Requirements

Django 1.02 +

Its a simple python based framework. Tutorial takes about 20 minutes. Learn it in a week, become awesome in a month. Helps if you have access to a unix machine or a MAC.

MySQL 5.0+

I use MySQL, you can use anything Django supports including PostGress and SqlLite.

Features

This project was designed with the sole purpose of no nonsense invoicing customers. Developers are great at doing work but they suck at sending bills. This helps...

Password login.
Manage simple customer lists.
Clean invoice lists.
Shows which invoices are pending, which are paid.
One click invoice send to the customer.
Option to add a payment schedule with interest and custom time lines.
Email invoice is both HTML/Plain and works with all major email clients including Gmail.
Tracks only the essentials, tasks and expenses with minimal data entry.

Coolness Factor

Every project is cool for a reason, this one happens to be super light weight and built entirely on existing infrastructure.

This entire project is only 440 lines of Python/Django code.
The HTML and plain text email templates are 206 lines of code.
Built entirely on the out of the box Django admin interface.

Download Instructions

The whole thing is available for download as a zip file at invoice.zip.

Also available on Google Code.

If this utility helps you in any way please help me keep this site and these types of projects going. Your donation will be used to keep this server going and encourage me to spend time posting other free works. So hop on PayPal, it takes less than a minute and you'll feel good after...

Thanks and enjoy. If you have any comments, suggestions, or concerns please leave the below. I will respond promptly.

Running On Your Mac

Here are sample instructions for running this on your local unix based machine likea Mac. Once you have the above installed and PYTHONPATH configured to the root path of this project. From anywhere run:

django-admin.py syncdb --settings=invoice.settings
django-admin.py runserver 127.0.0.1:8000 --settings=invoice.settings
Visit localhost:8000 on your local machine browser