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Olly replied on November 07, 2008 09:04 to the idea "Invoice Numbering" in FreeAgent Central:

Whisky, I've replied on the other thread

djwhisky replied on November 06, 2008 11:46 to the idea "Invoice Numbering" in FreeAgent Central:

Just wondering if there's been any movement on invoice numbering and allowing a wee bit more flexibility - Even if it was just adding a suffix field that always got appended on the end of the global sequence?

Mike Wilson replied on October 23, 2008 14:36 to the question "Produce Company accounts" in FreeAgent Central:

I've just come across Cupcake 25991's question from 9 months ago and want to add my 2p to this :)

What a great feature this would be :)

Ed Molyneux replied on August 29, 2008 07:58 to the question "Do you support multiple currencies?" in FreeAgent Central:

Jim P,

Thanks for making contact. Development for our multi-currency invoicing is well underway but we don't expect to be handling multi-currency banking for a while. It's significantly harder and we need to do some more research into the most usable way of doing it.

Sorry if that's not the answer you wanted to hear just now.

Jim P replied on August 29, 2008 07:23 to the question "Do you support multiple currencies?" in FreeAgent Central:

I also need the ability to have a bank account that's in a different currency from my 'base' currency. For example, I have a UK bank account for my UK clients and a Danish bank account for my clients here in Denmark. I'm currently having to ignore the references to 'kr' (kroner) in my UK account in FreeAgent and pretend they're UK pounds. However, that messes up the profit and loss and other general accounting functions...

Dennis Howlett replied on August 23, 2008 08:18 to the idea "You can never make an accountant happy!" in FreeAgent Central:

@stuart - good to hear (lol)

Stuart Jones replied on August 23, 2008 08:12 to the idea "You can never make an accountant happy!" in FreeAgent Central:

@Dennis - that's my smile!

Dennis Howlett started following the idea "You can never make an accountant happy!" in FreeAgent Central.

Dennis Howlett replied on August 23, 2008 02:48 to the idea "You can never make an accountant happy!" in FreeAgent Central:

@staurt - you're right - you can never make an accountant happy - but you can go part way to take the grimace off their face. (lol)

Olly replied on August 04, 2008 07:56 to the problem "ability to record timesheets by the hour but invoice by day" in FreeAgent Central:

Hi Gav

Thanks for the feedback. This is likely to be a common requirement for contractors who charge by the day, not specifically by hours worked, so we'll look at how best to implement this. Watch this space!

Olly

A comment on the problem "ability to record timesheets by the hour but invoice by day" in FreeAgent Central:

Hello there. I would like to request that when generating weekly/monthly timesheets, this can be done in days as well as/instead of hours. This is kinda linked to the topic previously. The reason is my client signs a separately generated timesheet which is an excel spreadsheet, which is just 1,1,1,1,1 = 5 days per week. He does not really care about the hours I do, although I like to see it so that I can record the actual hours I have worked. is there an easy fix for generating timesheets in days?

I'm wondering if there is a user-specified function can be added to the project details area, where the user can set the parameters for charging a half-day or full-day, ie.

Project to be recorded in days, hours or both (invoicing and timesheet)? Tick, Tick or Tick
If days, one half day shall constitute [insert] hours or less.
If days, one full day shall constitute [insert] hours or more.

Hope that makes sense and not too complicated. If it would be, is there any way of just having a function whereby I can print a timesheet out in days so that I don't have to generate another one?

Also, one last thing, I notice in the timesheet generation that the formatting is slightly out in the description of service? I don't think it is wrong, just maybe should look better if the description was 'justified' - just a suggestion.

Thanks!
Gavin – Gav32, on August 03, 2008 06:39

Tim replied on August 01, 2008 09:30 to the question "Do you support multiple currencies?" in FreeAgent Central:

Hi Ed, just to let you know I also have this requirement - although I invoice most clients in sterling in the UK, I have one client in Sweden who I invoice in SEK. They pay in SEK to my UK company bank account. The bank does the conversion and credits the sterling equivalent to the account.

It sounds like you'll have this sorted quite soon, so I'll hang on to my Swedish invoices until then!

Regards,

Tim

A comment on the problem "Import failed" in IntenseDebate:

Dennis, sorry to hear you ran into issues. We can troubleshoot you're import issues and get that all sorted out. Unfortunately we currently do not offer seesmic support, however this is coming down the pipe. We've had tremendous success with wordpress blogs and imports. Please let me know if you'd like to give it another try. Cheers – Michael, on July 03, 2008 00:54

Dennis Howlett replied on July 02, 2008 21:28 to the problem "Import failed" in IntenseDebate:

@wordpress - hosted. Kills all other comment systems including Seesmic and failed to upload all comments. Leaves readers very confused. Right now -= fail. Sorry.

Olly replied on June 25, 2008 10:38 to the idea "Monthly Income Report / Cashflow Forecast?" in FreeAgent Central:

Jack

You have probably already noticed but FreeAgent now has a Monthly P&L report in Accounting > Monthly Profit and Loss.

J Sleight replied on June 07, 2008 13:48 to the idea "Monthly Income Report / Cashflow Forecast?" in FreeAgent Central:

Hey,
I've been giving this some more thought.

The data that is displayed in the Invoice Payment Timeline graph is great, however it only goes back three months, and forward one. If you could present this information in some kind of table, but for all moths that data is available (both back and forward in time), it would pretty much cover what I'm after. I just want to be able to see how much I made in X month, and how much I've got coming in the next few months.

Of course, to calculate real income figures involves far more than just invoice values, but that's all I'm really interested in here.

richallum replied on June 05, 2008 18:48 to the idea "Invoice Numbering" in FreeAgent Central:

I use Freshbooks for another business and they allow you to specify an invoice start number (in case you are part way through a sequential system) and then it increments each new invoice created. That'll work for me.

Mike Wilson replied on June 05, 2008 16:02 to the idea "Invoice Numbering" in FreeAgent Central:

@Tekin,

LOL, and mine are {ClientName}/{UniqueGlobalID}.

I don't think a solution will please everyone precisely (although a scripting engine would be wonderful if you can provide it), but I would have thought a global ID is more intuitive than client or project or invoice reference based numbering schemes.

Tekin Suleyman replied on June 05, 2008 15:54 to the idea "Invoice Numbering" in FreeAgent Central:

@Olly - Riiiiight, ok, but does this work if you use a global scheme? my invoices are in the format 0000001, 0000002, etc. Will the recurring invoices still get incremented correctly without a company or project prepended to it?

Dennis Howlett replied on June 05, 2008 15:45 to the idea "Invoice Numbering" in FreeAgent Central:

In fairness to the lads, numbering systems are not the easiest thing in the world to get right and once you've settled on one, you're pretty much stuuck with it.

Trouble is there is no mandated method otherwise everyone's life would be simple, if less plesurable.

One way (sorry to add more ideas) is to have a strict sequential method but with tags added. Blinksale does that and it works effectively