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- Invoice Tracking and Generation for small to medium sized businesses.
-
- Contact:
-
- Darcy Brockbank
- The Hutchison Avenue Software Corporation
- phone: 514/499-2067
- fax: 514/499-3666
- darcy@hasc.ca
-
- The Hutchison Avenue Software Corp. announced the release date for "Invoice"
- today. Invoice is an application aimed at helping businesses track and
- generate invoices. The release date is scheduled for September 30th, and
- Hutchison will be taking orders starting today.
-
- In busy small and medium-sized businesses, there can often seem to be more
- work to be done than time in which to accomplish it all. Most people in such
- businesses wear more than one hat and may have to switch hats repeatedly in
- the course of a day or week or month. ``Account Manager'' may be only one of
- many hats a single individual wears, and consequently only one of many tasks
- they are juggling. Everyone knows the billings are important for the future
- of the business, but so is supporting clients, meeting product or service
- deadlines, etc.
-
- As well, cash flow is a constant challenge for small and medium-sized
- businesses trying to at least stay alive, and more likely, grow and develop.
- Billings handled ineffectively can have serious implications for cash flow
- and consequently for the future of a small or medium-sized business.
-
- We at Hutchison faced these challenges, as do many of our peers in the
- NEXTSTEP arena.
-
- Our aim was to come up with an application that took these challenges into
- account. Over the past year we've developed a Mission Critical Custom
- Application to solve these problems for us: Invoice. When we realized that
- everyone else was having the same problems that we did, we decided to
- polish it up, and bring Invoice to market. It's a straightforward yet
- powerful application that provides reliable, effective invoice management
- while minimizing the time and energy required to keep track of billings.
-
- Henry McGilton of Trilition Software was one of the early beta testers for
- Invoice. "Invoice is a great match to the size of my business. It
- has just the right blend of features to handle my customer list and
- invoicing." said McGilton.
-
- Tim Reed, of Black Market Technologies, another early beta tester, said,
- "Invoice is one of the first applications that I've beta tested
- that I've been able to use out of the box for production work - and the
- production version is even better."
-
-
- Features
- --------
-
- Invoice generation features allow you to...
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- - generate the invoice you send to your client
- - expedite that invoice electronically, via NeXTmail, with the click of a
- button
- - tailor the look of your invoices (using RTF, ASCII, PostScript, or Diagram2
- template files)
- - prepare and store invoices in any currency
- - define the transaction types (categories) of work your company invoices
- - define the tax names and rates that apply in your company
- - have your invoices numbered automatically
- - have your clients numbered automatically
-
-
- Invoice tracking features allow you to...
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- - maintain a database of exchange rates so you can quickly summarize your
- billings in your preferred currency
- - prepare invoices in advance and be notified automatically by Invoice
- when the billing date arrives
- - set other notification flags to keep you advised on the status of invoices
- - apply various filters on selections of client and invoice information to
- get different views of your billings; these filters specify the:
- - billing interval of interest
- - currency or currencies of interest
- - payment status (advance, current, old) of interest
- - transaction types of interest
- - obtain invoice summaries (subtotal/taxes/total, paid/unpaid portions) by:
- - Client
- - Invoice
- - Selection
- - through the use of prioritized invoice labelling and sorting, allowing you
- to see at a glance those invoices which are (in order of priority):
- - Past due, and have not been sent
- - Due, and have not been sent
- - Past due, and have been sent
- - Due, and have been sent
- - Advance, and have been sent
- - Advance, and have not been sent
-
-
- Other Features include...
-
- - a plain-text ASCII format database which allows users to build additional
- tools
- - multiple multi-user invoice databases
- - database locking
- - client and/or invoice sorting by state, number or name
- - exporting of clients or invoices to a plain-text ASCII file of any format
- - On-line Manual
-
-
- Platform
- --------
-
- Invoice requires at least NEXTSTEP 3.1, and is available for both Intel and
- Motorola architectures.
-
-
- Availability
- ------------
-
- Invoice will ship on September 30, and will be available directly from
- Hutchison, as well as through various resellers.
-
-
- Pricing
- -------
-
- Invoice is available at a suggested retail price of $199.00 (USD)
-
- Demos
- -----
-
- We will be making a demonstration version of Invoice available on September
- 15 which will allow you to keep an invoice database consisting of a fixed
- number of invoices. In all other ways, this will be a full-featured version.
- If you send email to "invoice-demo@hasc.ca" we'll send you the demo when
- it's ready on September 15th. Otherwise, you'll be able to find it on the
- archives:
-
- ftp//ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/submissions/InvoiceDEMO.tar.gz
- ftp//sonata.cc.purdue.edu/pub/next/submissions/InvoiceDEMO.tar.gz
- ftp//hasc.ca/pub/next/InvoiceDEMO.tar.gz
-
- Note: hasc.ca is a slow link.
-
-
- About Hutchison Avenue Software:
- --------------------------------
-
- The Hutchison Avenue Software Corporation is a software company based
- in Montreal, developing innovative custom and shrink-wrap solutions
- for corporate clients. Our clients include Equinox Capital
- Management, Telerate Systems, WSC Investment Services, Bell Canada,
- and Hewlett Packard.
-