We’ve recently been asked why we developed an online version of our SliQ Invoicing software. To be sure, it has been a significant effort with a need to learn and apply new, different technologies to those used for our desktop software. Having said this, we were able to reuse some components from our desktop software for things like template editing, PDF creation, printing and so on. Ultimately, we’ve implemented the online version to meet requests from our customers. We had many requests to implement multi-user access, multi-currency and mobile access, i.e. the ability to raise invoices while out and about. We took the decision that implementing an online version was the best solution to hit the majority of our customer requests. We’ve learned a lot of things along the way and will implement some of the major features back into the desktop version – multi-user and multi-currency for example.

From our point of view, a major advantage of the online software compared to the desktop software is that not only is there nothing for a customer to install in order to begin raising invoices but the online software is always right up to date – any changes or improvements we make can be made instantly available to all users without the need for people to be notified of an update, for them to decide to download and install and so on. Support also becomes much easier. With desktop software, our package may occasionally be affected by other software installed on a customer’s PC/  Mac/ tablet/ phone. With online/ cloud based X software the likelihood of an incompatibility reduces to almost zero since everything runs on a server in the cloud except for the web pages in the customer’s web browser.

Since launch we’ve been asked a couple of times why the online application looks different to the desktop application. In part, the difference is that it would take a lot of effort to make any web application look completely like a desktop application. We also took the opportunity to come with what we felt was a very clean user interface with the intention that keeping the interface clean made the application easier to use. Any user of our desktop invoicing software that tries out our online invoicing software should find the application easy to navigate. Users should also find that the features present in the desktop application are easily recognisable in the online app.

For the online invoicing application the help documentation is located at:

http://help.invoicing-software.com

We will continue to add more help articles to this website over time and will prioritise by first adding articles that address customer questions.

For more information on our online invoicing software, please visit:

https://www.invoicing-software.com