Version 2.8.0 (August 14th 2008) - :

Added Professional Blue invoice template.

 

Added Professional Red invoice template.

 

Added Professional Red Green invoice template.

 

Added Professional Teal invoice template.

 

Added Service 2 Red invoice template.

 

Added Service 2 Red Teal invoice template.

 

Updated GMail/SSL email library to properly encode PDF attachments.

 

Added Recurring Invoices report to customer to print details of all recurring invoices.

 

Added "1STMONTH" and "NET-30M" payment terms. "1STMONTH" sets the due date

to the first day of the month following the invoice date, NET-30M sets the due date to the

last day in the month of the invoice date.

 

Various small bug fixes in the template generator.

 

Version 2.7.0 (June 25th 2008) -:

Added shading to the new Recurring Invoices by Next Invoice report.

 

Added new Recurring Invoices by Next Invoice report.

 

Added persistent column widths to the invoice item quick view grid (column

widths are now saved).

 

Added PO number to invoice line on the customer statement.

 

Added Active/Inactive checkes to the newsletter window (customer status).

 

Updated database library to improve performance.

 

Added customer status checkes for the Invoice and Invoice Aging by

Customer reports (to run those reports for only active or inactive

customers).

 

Added "Batch Pay" option to the invoice batch operations list. Users can

now pay off multiple invoices with a single payment.

 

Added persistent save to the backup location. The last backup location

will now be the default when choosing "Backup Company File" from the

File menu.

 

Added "taxable total" tax method (Settings, Tax tab). This is the

default behavior but if unchecked kBilling will calculate taxes per line

item.

 

Added 2 new invoice templates - Professional 8 & 9.

 

Version 2.6.0 (May 16th 2008) -:

 

Re-ordered payments received report by payment date.

 

Various invoice template fixes.

 

Added an option to not print due dates.

 

Added product sales report by salesman.

 

Customer window redesigned.

 

Invoice window redesigned.

 

Added invoice item ordering options. Right-click on any item in the item list on the

invoice window to re-order. This change required a chance to the invoice templates -

if you have a custom invoice template please email it to support@ksoftware.net for a free

conversion.

 

Added new Service 5 and Service 6 invoice templates.

 

Added per customer defaults for payment type and payment term (set or re-set those

default options on your whole customer database from Edit -> Settings -> Invoice Tab

(the Set All buttons next to the appropriate setting)).

 

Added "Create new customer records from invoices" - you can enable (or disable) the

creation of customer account records for invoices where the customer was not selected

from the customer list. Bottom of the Invoices tab, settings window.

 

Changed ordering on the payments received / payments received by category report to order

and group by SKU and name.

 

Added "Reset Grid Layout" options to all right-click menus for the search result grids.

 

Version 2.5.0 -:

Added <billing_cycle> to recurring macros - use it on recurring invoice items or notes and it will be

       replaced with the billing cycle name (Monthly, Yearly, Bi-Weekly, etc)

 

Added Synchronize Customer Addresses to the Tools menu on the main window.

   Use to update all invoices to customer addresses stored in the customer database.

 

Added options for both statement and invoice printers. Check the settings window, Misc tab to set these.

   By default both are set to your Windows default printer.

 

Added "invoice Point In Time" report letting you do an invoice report from and to any date (with totals "as of" the ending date).

 

Added new "BillTo Name" to customers and invoices to track different customer names/billing names.

   A new macro <bill_name> was created and can be used in the address formats, emails and items descriptions/notes for recurring invoices.

 

Added "don't print in batches" option to invoice window, Extra tab. The setting is carried to recurring invoices and causes any

   invoice with this option checked to not print in recurring print cycles or any batch prints.

 

Made the "special notes" box save the last used text.

 

Fixed invoice aging by customer report to properly total 31-60 past due amounts

 

Added tax exempt option for customers

 

Fixed "request return receipt" email option

 

Added GMail support and support for other SSL/TLS servers (changed email library)

 

Significantly changed the newsletter feature. Users can now load an HTML document in and all images will be attached and embedded automatically.

 

Added "Update all" button to the Misc tab on the settings window to set/reset those customer options (mailing list, paper invoice, email invoice, etc).

 

Added Bank Deposit to the payment type list

 

Added the customer number to the list on the invoices tab

 

Added a quick view aging report to the customer quick view

 

Added batch statement operations (print, save, email, etc)

 

Redesigned customer statement and implemented it using the invoice designer

 

Moved "detailed statement" option to Misc tab on settings window - check to show the items on invoices on the statement.

 

Added customer name to invoice file names when using "Save as"

 

Added default for invoice and customer country (settings window, Misc tab)

 

Added an option to disable loading the product lists into all drop-downs (useful for those that have large inventory lists)

 

Added automatic check to make sure kBilling is only running 1 instance

 

Added aging information to the customer quick view

 

Added recurring cycle to the status column in the invoice list on the customer window (users may want to resize that column)

 

Added recurring cycle to the status column in the main invoice list (users may want to resize that column)

 

Added check number to the payment list on the customer window

 

Added date macros to the invoice and customer number prefixes:

   %yyyy: Will be replaced by the year value, 4 digits.

   %yy: Will be replaced by the year value, 2 digits.

   %mm: Will be replaced by the month value, 2 digits.

   %dd: Will be replaced by the day value, 2 digits.

   %hh: Will be replaced by the hour value, 2 digits.

   %ii: Will be replaced by the minute value, 2 digits.

   %ss: Will be replaced by the second value, 2 digits.

 

For example if your customer prefix is C%yyyy- your next customer number would look like C2008-1000 (if 1000 was the next sequential number).

   You can combin macros too, C%yyyy%mm- for <year><month> for example - all the way down to the second.

 

Added customizable texts for virtually all parts of the invoice (see Edit->Settings->Invoice tab)

 

Changed the name of the invoice PDF file to reflect the customer's name as well as invoice number

 

On recurring invoices there are a number of variables that can be used to represent relative dates:

 

<current_eng_short_month>

   Nov, Oct, Dec, etc..

<current_eng_long_month>

   November, October, December, etc..

<current_num_month>

   01, 02, 03, etc..

<current_eng_short_day>

   Mon, Tues, Wed, etc..

<current_eng_long_day>

   Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc..

<current_num_day>

   1,2,3,4,5,6,7

<current_year>

   2008, etc..

 

All of these variables are available with the next and invoice_date prefixes as well:

       <next_eng_short_month>

       Shows the "next" month after the current one, in the format described above.

       <next_eng_long_month>

       <next_num_month>

       <next_eng_short_day>

       <next_eng_long_day>

       <next_num_day>

       <next_year>

 

       <next_invoice_eng_short_month>

       Shows the "next" month after the month part of the Next Invoice date, in the format described above.

       <next_invoice_eng_long_month>

       <next_invoice_num_month>

       <next_invoice_eng_short_day>

       <next_invoice_eng_long_day>

       <next_invoice_num_day>

       <next_invoice_year>

 

       <invoice_date_eng_short_month>

       Shows the "next" month after the month part of the Next Invoice date, in the format described above.

       <invoice_date_eng_long_month>

       <invoice_date_num_month>

       <invoice_date_eng_short_day>

       <invoice_date_eng_long_day>

       <invoice_date_num_day>

       <invoice_date_year>

 

You can use these variables to do an item like:

 

       For service from <invoice_date> to <next_invoice_dat>

 

When the billing cycle is run the pending invoice item names and/or descriptions will replace the above variables with their corresponding values.

 

For example, this item description on the recurring invoice:

 

       Service for <current_eng_long_month> , <current_year>

 

Would read:

       

       Service for May, 2008

 

When a recurring invoice runs in May of 2008.

 

Another example:

 

       Service from <invoice_date_eng_long_month>, <invoice_date_year> to <next_invoice_eng_long_month>, <next_invoice_year>