Good package for invoices

[Tom]

A friend of mine is going into business for himself, and needs something to do invoices with.

Typically, those invoices will be like this:


date_______units___description___________unit cost____net cost

12/4/04_____1_____filming in manchester______£800_____£800
12/4/04_____40_____petrol expenses_________£0.40_____£16

____________________________________net total_____£816
___________________________________vat 17.5%____£142.80

______________________________________gross total £958.80

That kind of thing, printed onto A4 headed paper. Keeping account records would be nice, but its not important.

Basically, the 'my first invoice' kind of software would do the trick, until he gets to grips with how the computer works.

 

[SilverHood]

surely MS WORD is up for the job, or excel if he's being daring.

 

[dysfunction]

Sage accounting Software is quite good for the small business...

http://www.accountingsystems.co.uk/sage_line_50_invoicing.htm

 

[Jonaldo]

Does look like something a simple spreadsheet package could easily do for him if someone set it up. I would think accounts packages and things would only really be necessary for payroll and stuff.

 

[itcheh]

Sage is what you want

 

[Mr.Monkey3]

Sage is an accounting system. It is very good for small companies.

If you just want to create invoices, use word. It's easier.

As for VAT, make sure he has put his VAT reg # on it.

 

[~Yuckfou~]

I'm sure there are excel invoice templates at the MS support site.
Quickbooks would also work.

 

[Tom]

I've tried Sage, and came to the conclusion that it is cack. He needs something that shouts big shiney buttons and smiley faces, rather than the grey suited nightmare from hell.

 

[Vae]

Personally as an accountant I hate Sage. There package is unfriendly and impossible to edit most entries.

The only time I like it is when giving it to incompetent clients because theres always a trail of what they've done so you can unravel it.

For a small company I'd recommend Quickbooks. It's cheap and easy to use. I can't remember how it handles invoices though but those could be easily done on Excel or Word.

 

[Yoni]

I have to agree with Vae as an accountant sage is a nightmare but for a user wanting to keep track of what is going on it is excellent

 

[MYstIC G]

Use Microsoft Access, it comes with dirty example databases that do all this kinda crap.

 

[milou]

Useful MS templates here: http://office.microsoft.com/templates/default.aspx

Plus invoices: http://office.microsoft.com/search/results.aspx?Scope=TC&Query=Invoice&CTT=6&Origin=EC010331121033

Hope they help.

 

[Tom]

I'm gonna create a word template for him to use.

Thanks for the help.