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Kill That Bill At InvoicePlace

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An Australia based website, InvoicePlace.com is a sure boon for contractors, freelancers, home-based, and small businesses. It does the most boring part of work – sending off and following up on the bills. Users can create and print professional invoices, quotes and receipts in PDF or MS Word formats. The site helps keep track of current and expired quotes, due and overdue payments, and record partial payments.

As killerstartups observes

“If you are a freelancer or consultant, you might like InvoicePlace, a site that organizes and keeps track of your invoices and even lets you make and receive payments through the site. For the busy business person, it’s not going to burn a whole in your pocket and it’s probably going to make payments easier.”

A free trial lets you sign up and manage up to three customers. Once you’re convinced, a monthly subscription of $14 (AUD) is all it takes. InvoicePlace works in over 19 countries including Australia, United States, Canada, and Great Britain. Small hitch, the currency still speaks Australian, so users need to keep converting. The bright side, an RSS feed keeps you updated on your account.

The site has a really neat demo, which explains it all.

An older web 2.0 company, InvoicePlace was created by Scott Carpenter in 2003, and is a product of Growthbase Pty Ltd, an Australian Technology consulting company based in Brisbane. It is funded privately.

Competition is mainly from Blinksale.com, though our team found InvoicePlace far easier to use.

Voice Over From Invoice Place

1. What programming is Invoice Place built on?

The site has been developed using Java and PHP.

2. Who are your ideal prospects & customers?

People who have a small business, or work as consultants, contractors and freelancers will mostly benefit from Invoiceplace.

3. When Invoice Place expands, what type of tech skills will you look for in potential employees?

Solid programming skills and experience are a must, but also important are strong problem solving skills. The ability to think independently but know when to ask for help is a great benefit.

4. How do you use your blog to market Invoice Place & communicate to your customers?

The blog provides a communication tool to inform customers of new updates and features.

5. Your demo is pretty cool and clearly shows how easy your product is to use. What have others said about it?

I have received similar feedback - the demo is extremely popular because it provides the fastest way for people to see what Invoiceplace does and how easy it is to use. People visiting the site ultimately have two important initial questions - what does this product do, and will it help me? A demo shows them very quickly just what Invoiceplace does and how fast and easy it is use.

6. Does your product interact with your customers' accounting software or bank account?

Not currently, but as I receive more feedback and feature requests from the people using Invoiceplace from all over the world this is a feature under consideration.

7. How can bookkeepers & accountants make use of Invoice Place?

Bookkeepers and accountants can use Invoiceplace as a means to provide their customers with a professional and easy use quoting and invoicing service that is available from any computer connected to the internet.

InvoicePlace – Top Billing From Us!

Looks like there’s no better time to run a small business. From software (NearTime, Zoho) to billing, there is no dearth of companies waiting to make life easier. InvoicePlace scores extra because it really takes on one of the most thankless jobs around. The challenge, as always, is keep the interface as friendly as possible and make sure that there’s enough support. Personally, I am registering as soon as I can and getting those *%### bills out of my life!

Posted by Sally Richardsson       Posted at 04:24AM Jul 20, 2007 by Sally Richardsson    Comments[1]


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