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Saturday, January 2nd, 2010 / von Schorsch

SalesKing opens its gates

An exciting year comes to an end and our team, says thank you for your confidence, your improvement suggestions, your recommendations and your indulgence in some cases.

While celebrating the old year, we do close our beta as already sayed in our last newsletter. That means SalesKing is opening the doors for everybody. The last 6 month we did intense improvements. Driven by the goal to continue matching your needs we decided to set three different pricing plans which are structured as follow:

  • Freelancer: 1 User 9€/Month
  • StartUp: 3 User 49€/Month
  • Business: 10 User 69€/Month

Please check the provided features here: www.salesking.eu/pricing

Beside we do offer a Free Account which is restricted to the simple functions of creating invoices. New Users can test SalesKing for 30 days with the complete functions after that they will be integrated in the Free Version automatically.

We are looking forward to deliver multiple Improvements this year to enable you to manage your invoicing and client and product administration more efficient as you already can do with SalesKing.

Our roadmap contains:

  • Better administration of abonnements (called recurring invoices)
  • Batch Organisation f.e. mass print and distribution
  • Letter and Signature
  • API
Friday, May 22nd, 2009 / von Schorsch

Estimate Status, dropdown menu, invoice-numbers

As mentioned in the last post, we implemented reminders. Besides we made a few little changes.

Estimates

Now Estimates can be tagged with a status-option. While implementing this, we deleted a few not used status-settings. The now available Options are:

  • draft, open, accepted, rejected

In the Background we switched the known status billed in accepted. This status was automatically set when an invoice was created for the estimate. This function is deleted. The arguments for this step will be communicated in the comment-area, if somebody want to know more about this.

We also gave estimates the option to give them a title. It is already used in the reminder section and is nice to place for example a project-title in your pdf-template. This field is also tied to the textsearch.

Invoices

The automatic setting of invoicenumbers for new invoices is cancelled. That is made because now Invoices saved as draft do not reserve a invoice-number. As known the invoice-number is now set when opening the invoice.

Main-Menu

After more and more document-types filled the section invoices it was time to get a drop-down-menu. In the Future we will insert a navigation-section called documents, where also the estimates will be organized.

BILD-> Screenshot Drop-Down-Rechnungen (gibts nicht mehr J)

Secrets

In the Screenshot above you can already see a new Function ….find the mistake….

It is not done yet. Also a secret is the web-template and product thing.

Interface

The formular for the search of your Login-Adress is pimped with a little usability-upgrade. When you fill one field ( domain or eMail) the other remaining field is deactivated.

The displayed total in the header section is taken away. Our Users did not want to make employees or friends being able to see that at a glance.

Last but not least we took care about out lists and search options. After we implemented the lists first there had been several discussions about the default settings of how it shows up after clicking it first. For Example the Invoice List was switching within the last few weeks from being sorted after date of invoice to status to price to client to invoice number (last setting). Same issue was in the lists for clients and products. To end this we decided to sort the lists after date of change. That makes the user having a consistent sorting of all lists and makes him able to see the most actual files first.

Friday, May 22nd, 2009 / von Schorsch

Creating reminders

With todays update reminders are available in SalesKing. Reminders are created from existing invoices. The Link for that is placed in the details of the invoices.

Invoice sidebar - Reminder

Within the reminder settings you can access three reminder-steps where you can define for each step the due-date, the title, the pre and after text and the reminder-fee. If you do not wish to set a reminder-fee, for example for the first friendly reminder just do not fill the field.

Details Payment Reminder

The Details oft the reminder do not differ to invoices, credit notes etc. on first sight. But in the Template you can easily see the differences because there are no to which taxes, no quantity or reductions. The Reminder just has two blocks: first the invoice-data the reminder is tied to and the reminder-fee, if setted.

With your own pdf-templates you are able to modify your reminder for example you can show your client the next official steps when creating the third reminder.

Friday, May 15th, 2009 / von Schorsch

Reminder, products, languages

What is going on with “This week at SalesKing”

We decided to choose striking head-lines to match our goal to provide our RSS-Feed-Subscribers and, of course google a better view on our news. The articles are and will be tagged with weekly-news.

Last two weeks we did not do nothing. As always we fixed a few little bugs, but we focused on reminders, products and languages.

Reminders

The from many users desired feature reminders is just a little step away of being released. Little Sneak-Preview:

Sneak-Preview Reminder List

Reminders do, of course have own pdf-templates as you know from estimates and invoices. More details we do provide with the release.

Products

As we mentioned before, in near Future it will be possible to publish your own products. This is not as easy as it sounds because it needs other formatting and the ability to order things. Who now has got e-commerce in his head is not on the wrong way. The challenge for us is to keep the system as easy as possible, because the use-case are mini-shops or service-distributors as we are.

Languages

From the beginning we wanted to be able to run the SalesKing in different languages. That is also why we decided to use the .eu-Domain. Until yet it was problematic that translation just had been possible by using gettext. With the implementation of a new translation-format we came very close to our goal to provide online-translations in the browser. While switching to the new format it is now time to retype all of the strings in the code, to clean-up the language-files and to reorganize something about 3000 translations.

Sounds like lot of work? …. It definitely is and that is why we are sorry that we cannot give fix informations of release-date.

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009 / von Schorsch

This week at SalesKing Vol.2

This week has started with a Live-Update. The improvements from last week are now available for our users.

On Friday there was the second update with search-features for invoices, estimates, credit-notes and products. In documents (invoices, estimates credit-note) search is done with number, order-number. In products you are able to search after names, price and description. Beside this we implemented new fonts for the pdf-creation (List follows) and some little stuff in the roles and rights-system.

For the coming week we announce step by step improvements for products. First we will focus on publishing of products …. it keeps on being thrilling.

Friday, May 1st, 2009 / von Schorsch

Barcamp Cologne the 3rd

As being a citzen of colgne you can’t not be at this event, so that is why the very long waiting-list did not scare us. As little topping there will be a remake of the laptop-pimping-session (LINK). The detailed information about this will be a secret …. I can mention that there will be no drill-machine come to action!

Thursday, April 30th, 2009 / von Schorsch

Last week at SalesKing Vol. 1

In case of being more often able to blog, we will inform you in our new serie This week at SalesKing about the latest things we made. Because I wanted to publish the first edition of this series already last Friday I do now start with last week.

Credit-notes

At the beginning of last week we implemented the credit-note-feature. This new feature has, as invoices and estimates have, its own pdf-templates, comments, mail-templates and settings. After a bit of user-feedback there will be some extensions I guess.

4 places after the comma

The intern calculation is now extended to 4 decimal-places. That means the question about where is the cent gone in calculated taxes etc. is fixed. In fact of being rounded to two decimal-places it was not possible to get a price of 15 € incl. 19 % tax:

  • net 12,61 € -> total 15,01 €
  • net 12,60 € -> total 14,99 €

In such cases we do now use 4 decimal-places and only the total is mathematically rounded on two decimal-places.

Thursday, April 9th, 2009 / von Schorsch

Easily copy your pdf-templates

Your own pdf-templates can now easily copied including the settings with one click.

Show Icon (blue +) to easy copy templates

The possibility to also copy the default pdf-templates is not supported yet. New are the fields subtotal and carry-forward which can translated free now. Furthermore are the settings of blocks that are not used, automatically hidden.

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 / von Schorsch

SalesKing imports working hours from mite!

The mite-Importer!

SalesKing-Users do now have the opportunity to import their working hours which they captured with the frequently used online-timetracking-tool mite, and to instantly proceed them into their invoice.

Time that you captured with mite are easily to import: after choosing an active project from mite you are able to import tracked-time optional sorted by work or period or both. You can also choose a customized work period to import.

Setting the assignment

To allow the collaboration with mite you have to activate the mite API. This option is based on mite in settings (click on your user-name on the right top). Just activate the assignment and copy the shown API-Key.

Additional to your mite-subdomain you have to past the API-Key within your SalesKing-settings-area – this is for secured authentification of the assignment.

Screencast

SalesKing feat. mite! Working-hours imported into SalesKing used to create invoices from SalesKing on Vimeo.

Thanks to the whole mite Team for the fantastic feedback, as to Jan and Lars of Railslove for the big support while implementing this mite-importer.

Thursday, March 5th, 2009 / von Schorsch

Interview with CEO Georg Leciejewski from SalesKing (german)

Two weeks ago Mr. Stuff MC from Pomcast had been in our office and just made a spontaneous Interview with our CEO Georg Leciewski.

Stuff MC being not just a Vlogger he also builds nice apps for the iphone, also had been at our nighbours office from Railslove and Popula. Thanks for visiting us Stuff MC!

Here you can also see the Interviews with Railslove and Popula.

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