You’re all invited to visit our offices next friday.

This friday – November 11th –  LX Factory will have another Open Day. It’s the perfect occasion for you to visit us and get to know us, the team behind InvoiceXpress.

Our doors will be open to everyone. We’ll be available to chat and helping you getting to know InvoiceXpress better.

Will be waiting for you. See you this friday.

Where it is?
LX Factory - Rua Rodrigues Faria, 103, 1300-501 Lisbon – Portugal, we’re at Builiding I, 3rd floor, Room 3.22 ]]> http://en.invoicexpress.com/blog/events/invoicexpress-open-day-lx-factory/feed/ 0 http://en.invoicexpress.com/blog/news/invoice-help-new-support-tool/ http://en.invoicexpress.com/blog/news/invoice-help-new-support-tool/#comments Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:22:16 +0000 Pedro dos Santos http://en.invoicexpress.com/?p=2863 Invoicing can be a lonely and frustating task, but with InvoiceXpress that’s not the case. And we want our community to know it, feel it. Whenever you need we’ll keep you company, helping you out and making your invoice experience more positive and more fluid.

With that in mind we improved the way you – our community – get in touch with us. Along with our Facebook and Twitter (follow us!), we’ve made it easier and better for you to get in touch with us via email.

On the left side you can see the tab “Feedback & Support”. Click on it.

After clicking on it a simple elegant window will show up. You’ll only need to write in your question and/or suggestion and click Send Feedback. Easy and simple. Our support team will receive an email and quickly get back to you.

One great advantage – for you and for us – is that, if you send us messages using this tool, we’ll know where you were in the application at the moment you sent your question, and also, for e.g., which browser and operating system you’re using. Those pieces of information are vital and they will agilize the support process.

In case you aren’t logged in, you’ll have to fill in your email address.

Don’t forget that in case of any questions you can also read our FAQ: http://en.invoicexpress.com/faq/.

Some of you are already using this functionality. What did you think? We hope all of you like this small improvement.
As always, give us your feedback, leave a comment.

Now, after finalizing an invoice, this is how the menu on the right will look like:

When you click on “Add Payment”, a windows will show up at the top of the screen (just like the image bellow) where you can define: the amount of the partial payment (or full payment, if you wish); the date of the payment; and you also have the possibility to add a note to a payment. Please note that the values presented on this window are VAT free. To make the payment, click on “Save”

As you can see on the next image, you’ll be able to see a list with the payments already made and the respective date and amount. Also, if you place your cursor above a payment, you’ll be able to see the note you added to that specific payment. Bellow the payments list, there’s a payment progress bar.

Once completly paid, an invoice will automatically change to a Settled status. Also the progress bar will change and indicate that the invoice is Settled.

At any moment, you can delete individual payments. To do that, go to the right upper corner of the payment you wish to delete, like shown on the image bellow. After clicking to delete the payment, a window will appear, at the top of the page, asking if you are sure that you want to delete that payment. If you delete a payment on a invoice already Settled, that invoice will change back to a Finalized status.

All of these actions will be registered in your history of recent activities, situated bellow the document. You’ll be able to see when that action took place and which user made it.

At last, on your invoice listing, you’ll notice that there’s a new icon to identify the invoices with partial payments, but not yet settled.

This was a feature we know a lot of you wanted and will use a lot. We hope everything’s as you would like, please comment, leave your feedback!

We remind you that you can suggest new features that you would like to see added or improvements of already existing features on InvoiceXpress. Go to our Feedback forum and start suggesting!

]]> http://en.invoicexpress.com/blog/news/new-feature-partial-payments/feed/ 0 http://en.invoicexpress.com/blog/news/three-new-features-including-reset-account/ http://en.invoicexpress.com/blog/news/three-new-features-including-reset-account/#comments Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:51:05 +0000 Pedro dos Santos http://en.invoicexpress.com/?p=2692 Hi there. We’ve added three new features to InvoiceXpress!

Reset Account

From now on you can reset your account.

To do this, you have to go to Settings > Upgrade, then scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on Reset. After this you’ll receive an email to confirm this action.

Before resetting your account we strongly recommend you to export all your data. This Reset will permanently erase all your documents, items, schedules and sequences. New sequences will be created by omission. After this, to get your data back all you have to do is import it back to the application.

Filter contacts by VAT number

We now give you another option on how to search and find your clients.

You can do this by going to any of the following tabs: Invoices, Estimates, Guides, Schedules, Purchase Orders and Contacts tabs (UPDATE: currently only fully functional on the Contacts tab). Type in a client’s VAT number in to the filter and on the list bellow you can see the documents or contact associated with that VAT number.

New Top 5 Debtors graph

We offer you a new graph called Top 5 Debtors. It will display the top 5 clients that still have payments to do. It’s a simple yet very useful resource. You can check it out by going to the Contacts.

We hope that you like these new features, please leave a comment with your feedback.

Also, don’t forget that you can leave any suggestions for new and/or improved features, on our Feedback forum.

My name is Pedro dos Santos and I’m the new Community Manager.

I’ll be the link between you and InvoiceXpress. In this role, besides building up our community,  I’ll be available to help you with any questions you may have and put you up to speed with the latests news. All of your feedback, whether it’s positive or negative, will deserve full attention.

To have the best possible understanding of the community, I want be part of it and just not a moderator, outside looking in.

Join us:
Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/invoicexpress
Twitter – http://twitter.com/invoicexpress
Blog – http://invoicexpress.com/blog/

I’ll be waiting for your participation and involvement.

Are you still seeing the maintenance page?

We received some emails from our users saying that they still viewing the maintenance page. This is due the slow DNS propagation on some internet providers. We apologize for the delay.

So what can i do to use InvoiceXpress?

If you need to access InvoiceXpress right away we suggest you use the Google Public DNS. Instructions below. (Original article here: http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using.html)

WINDOWS XP

1. Go to Menu Start > Control Panel.
2. Select Network and Internet Connections.
3. Select Network Connections.
4. In Local Area Connection click the right mouse button and choose the option Properties.
5. Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) .
6. Select the option Use the following DNS server address.
7. Insert the following addresses: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
8. Restart your computer

WINDOWS 7

1. Go the Control Panel.
2. Click Network and Internet, then Network and Sharing Center, and click Change adapter settings.
3. Select the connection for which you want to configure Google Public DNS. For example:
* To change the settings for an Ethernet connection, right-click Local Area Connection, and click Properties.
* To change the settings for a wireless connection, right-click Wireless Network Connection, and click Properties.
If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
4. Select the Networking tab. Under This connection uses the following items, click Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4), and then click Properties.
5. Click Advanced and select the DNS tab. If there are any DNS server IP addresses listed there, write them down for future reference, and remove them from this window.
6. Click OK.
7. Select Use the following DNS server addresses. If there are any IP addresses listed in the Preferred DNS server or Alternate DNS server, write them down for future reference.
8. Replace those addresses with the IP addresses of the Google DNS servers: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.
9. Restart the connection you selected in step 3.
10. Test that your setup is working correctly; see Testing your new settings below.
11. Repeat the procedure for additional network connections you want to change.
12. Restart your computer

MAC OSX

1. Go the Control Panel.
DNS settings are specified in the Network window.

1. From the Apple menu, click System Preferences, then click Network.
2. If the lock icon in the lower left-hand corner of the window is locked, click the icon to make changes, and when prompted to authenticate, enter your password.
3. Select the connection for which you want to configure Google Public DNS. For example:
* To change the settings for an Ethernet connection, select Built-In Ethernet, and click Advanced.
* To change the settings for a wireless connection, select Airport, and click Advanced.
4. Select the DNS tab.
5. Click + to replace any listed addresses with, or add, the Google IP addresses at the top of the list: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.
6. Click Apply and OK.
7. Test that your setup is working correctly; see Testing your new settings below.
8. Repeat the procedure for additional network connections you want to change.
9. Restart your computer

LINUX

1. Go the Control Panel.

In most modern Linux distributions, DNS settings are configured through Network Manager.

1. In the System menu, click Preferences, then click Network Connections.
2. Select the connection for which you want to configure Google Public DNS. For example:
* To change the settings for an Ethernet connection, select the Wired tab, then select your network interface in the list. It is usually called eth0.
* To change the settings for a wireless connection, select the Wireless tab, then select the appropriate wireless network.
3. Click Edit, and in the window that appears, select the IPv4 Settings tab.
4. If the selected method is Automatic (DHCP), open the dropdown and select Automatic (DHCP) addresses only instead. If the method is set to something else, do not change it.
5. In the DNS servers field, enter the Google Public DNS IP addresses, separated by a space: 8.8.8.8  8.8.4.4
6. Click Apply to save the change. If you are prompted for a password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
7. Test that your setup is working correctly; see Testing your new settings below.
8. Repeat the procedure for additional network connections you want to change.
9. Restart your computer

If your distribution doesn’t use Network Manager, your DNS settings are specified in /etc/resolv.conf.

Earn money by promoting Invoic€xpress. Spread the word with your affiliate code and for every new client you raise we pay you a commission! You can also share a percentage of your earnings with your affiliates offering them discounts in monthly subcriptions and prepaid plans.

How to activate the affiliates program?

Login to your account,  go to “Settings>>Affiliates” and click “Enable” to activate your affiliate program 

How to configure?

It’s simple. An affiliate token is automatically created for you to share with your clients. You can also choose a percentage you want to share with your affiliates.  Your affiliate token will change accordingly to the percentage you choose.

• The Conditions tab shows how much you can earn. If you change the percentage to share with your affiliates values will be instantly updated.
  

• The Promote tab gives you an URL to share with your afiliates so they can create a new account. You can also use the web banners to advertise in your site: just copy the code below each image and paste it in your site.
  
• Use the Share tab to invite affiliates by email
  
• Your gains tab gives you an overview of your earnings.
  

Are you already a client?

Activate now your affiliate program and start earning money with Invoic€xpress!

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Support/Questions/Help:

support@invoicexpress.com

New notifications screen

You can now customize the emails you send with your documents to your clients. Each document type can have a different message.

• Go to Settings >> Notifications
  
  

  
  

• Each type of document can have a different message. Clicking the “Save” button will keep all changes made.
  

New pre-defined invoicing settings

In “Settings>>Account” you can customize by default the Send Options, Due Dates and Observations in your invoices.

Delete Clients and Items

Now you can delete clients and items from your account

Tell us what do you think about these new features: support@invoicexpress.com

Even if you don’t need it help us by spreading the word.

Thank you!