Wednesday, February 14, 2007

It's been awhile: Invoicing and hardship

For the past 3 days I've been preparing and invoicing my company's client. I would never had thought it would take such time to simple billing. It has been absolutely horrindous... that isn't spelled right,but oh well. I've had to make spreadsheets and doc files for everything. Then spit it all out to pdf. I emailed all of the clients and notified them all. I imagine it will get faster since I just started doing it, but I bet there are hundreds of small businesses out there that could really use some help.

Small Businesses. I feel for you. I hope my company can come up with a software solution to save you time and money.

Google Calendars. I like it. I didn't really have a use for it until now. I'm using it to schedule invoice dates. I think it will work out for me.

I could also use an email system that could retain html templates. That would be handy. I'd love to personalize all of my business emails with html.

Notification and contact with clients is soooo important. Everyone likes to be notified of a payment deadline or an acknowledgement of payment. Those little flourishes really solidify the professionalism of your business.

I can't wait to solve some of these issues with web applications and webware.

Later