BambooInvoice: A Billing Web Application

Many freelancers often face the need for billing their customers. Usually, Excel or similar programs are used for this. However, there are free web applications, one of which I want to tell briefly. It is called BambooInvoice and has the following features.

- Maintain customer base and their contacts
- Creating accounts
- Sending invoices by soap
- Creating pdf-accounts
- Printing invoices
- Tracking overdue accounts
- Notes to bills and their payments
- Export to excel or xml
- Accounts reports

Technologically, BambooInvoice is a set of PHP scripts based on CodeIgniter that is installed on your server, MySQL is also required (drivers for MSSQL, Postgre, OCI8, SQLite and ODBC are included).
Here is what the creator of Derek Allard writes about him.

Features

→ You are in control. BambooInvoice sits on your server. Its your data. You can get it out of the system easily.
→ BambooInvoice is easy to use, and easy on the eyes.
→ BambooInvoice is actively used and developed.
→ BambooInvoice is a modern coding standards. Its a XHTML strict, WAI conforming, CSS using treat!
→ BambooInvoice is internationalized. Currently it is available in English, French, German, Dutch, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, Bulgarian, Swedish, Italian, and Estonian.
→ Built on the excellent CodeIgniter project.
→ BambooInvoice is released under the GPL.
→ You'll be the coolest kid if you use BambooInvoice
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Download and try BambooInvoice on the project website .

Your humble servant made a translation of this application, which should be included in the next version. In the meantime, you can download it here .

A few screenshots at the end of this mini-review.