I’m with Dave on some of the premium features I would gladly pay for:
- Printable PDF’s of invoices
- Client dashboard for invoice and payment history
- Request for Proposals Form
- Estimate Generating (much like invoicing but looking for client sign-offs etc.)

Awesome Plug-In. I would also pay for a commercial version if you could get this to sync easily with Quickbooks. Most small business use quickbooks or similar software.

My client noted that on the invoice he received, “the numbers didn’t add up”. Well, they did, except this plugin formulates the display as Qty/Item/Total, not Qty/Item/Sub-Total as it should be. Thus, my invoice for “3 days at $400/day” showed up as “$400″, not “$1,200″. The final bottom line Total was correct, but the tabling of sub-totals among several rows of multiple items made no sense.

So I dug into display.php, at line #1598 and changed the code as follows [last line changed]:

//Item Sub-Total
if(!$show_quantity) {
$response .= “” . wp_invoice_currency_symbol($currency_code) . wp_invoice_currency_format($itemized_item[quantity] * $itemized_item[price]) . “”;
} else {
$response .= “”. wp_invoice_currency_symbol($currency_code) . wp_invoice_currency_format($itemized_item[quantity] * $itemized_item[price]) . “”;
}

I wanted to both show Quantity and Sub-Total, so I overrode the last line in that snippet and added [quantity] and [price]. I also changed the headings above each table column to clean it up: Qty./Service/Sub-Total. Those lines are on 1573 and 1574. At 1619, I changed it to “Total” so that it fits in the table data space instead of stacking “Total amount”. Hope this helps for anyone else with this issue. Let me know if there was an easier way to do this.

Seriously – as I’m slowly starting a job as a freelancer this could really come in handy. And I wouldn’t even mind paying 30-40$ for it either. It looks great and the premium features only make it better.

You cheapasses.

This is a GREAT plugin! If I begin to actively use it, I will donate a licensing fee. I agree with Brent Christian; I too am appalled how little people care about the extensive time developers have spent to create these applications. People are getting used to free stuff and are becoming demanding to have everything free!

Hey! Awesome plugin!!

Thanks for your work, time, and licensing this as GPL.

Come on people! I am appalled by how many of you voted
that you would pay nothing or that you would be cheap about
purchasing a premium version.

Hello!! This plugin is already premium; show some respect!

While I don’t particulaly need the suggested premium features,
I’d still be more than happy to make a purchase as a ‘tip of the hat’
to work well done.

Cheers,

- Brent Christian

This is a great wordpress plugin and I would certainly pay for an commercial version if it had the following things available:

- Printable PDF’s of invoices
- Offline Payment Management
- Client dashboard for invoice and payment history
- Vendor & Expense Tracking

Other cool things that can make it full feature workshop:
- Request for Proposals Form
- Job Queue & Support Ticket Management
- Estimate Generating (much like invoicing but looking for client sign-offs etc.)

Hi,

I am wondering if this is compatible with 2.8.6? I don’t want to upgrade my WP install if it’s not.

Great plugin by the way.

Thanks,
Philip

I fixed it. I commented out jquery.idTabs.min.js so that it doesn’t load. That fixed it and now it works great!

Want to try out the plugin but I can’t view the settings page. All of the invoicing pages seem to work just not the tabs. I even went so far as to disable each of my plugins. Any suggestions? I just have the tab menu across the top and the save settings button

Hmm, maybe my enthusiasm is misplaced. I note that the last appearance here of the plugin’s creator was about 4 months ago. I’m further confused and a little bit concerned that the download offers 1.8 but I somehow have 1.94 installed.

I’m going to continue to offer a donation, subject to being giving a destination for it – and in the expectation of seeing some activity in these exchanges.

I do love this plugin and, as I said in a direct msg using this site’s Comment form, I would be happy to send a donation but I do not find a link for that.

I was not aware this comments page existed until now. I’m thinking my questions may help someone else – or better yet, perhaps someone will help me. So I’ll repeat them.

1) One thing I would like to see in the Premium version is to give customer an option of printing invoice and mailing the payment.

2) I do not understand the settings instructions. No offense, but they are over my head. I mean, I do not know what is intended or why I would choose between:

“Include the form by either posting PHP code into your template or by using a shortcode.

PHP Tag – insert into a template file:

Shortcode – insert into a page or post content: [wp-invoice-lookup]”

Where is there such a template? Also, I understand the words “use a shortcode” but that advice does not tell me as much as I need to know. I mean, “use a flubberbutterfacia” is also good English, but it means no more to me than “use a shortcode” because I don’t know why I should.

So, respectfully, if that whole setting dialogue could be dumbed down to my level, I would be a happier moron.

Hello there.
Thank you for a good pluging.
Could you please tell me, how can I display instead of my email address, for example, a business name on the paypal payment page?

I absolutely love this plugin, extremely useful.

I have one question though, how is the the invoice’s id transformed into the id that is passed in the url?

Ideally I would like to be able to access invoices using the actual id of it in the url so if for example the invoice’s id was 1234 then the url would be http://www.mydomain.com/?invoice_id=1234 rather than a random looking id.

If that isn’t possible though, just knowing how the id used for the url is generated would be fantastic.

Thanks for this great plugin!

Any timeframe for wpmu integration?

Hello, I found the pot file for this plugin somewhere, and translated it into Italian, where should I send it for you to include it in the next releases?
Do I get cookies for being such a good user or maybe just the Premium version ? lol

Also, in Italy we use a tax registration code (Partita IVA or P.I. or P.IVA) that is required in every invoice (for both the company and the client), so we would need an extra field, after the address, in both the settings page and the invoice page.
Sometimes (rarely) it’s not needed, but it is very important to have at least the choice to have it or not.
This code is also largely used in other European countries, under different names, eg. UK, France, Spain.. etc.

Another request would be to be able to choose the date format, as in Europe we use day/month/year and the year/day/month format is really confusing for us.

Last request: if I have foreign clients and I need them to see the invoice in english, rather than my local language, I’d need an option when I create a new invoice, that lets me choose in what language I want to display the invoice for my client. (the translation will be taken from the translation files you have collected this far, but I only need english and italian for now, so it’s easy).

Let me know about the pot file!

Thank you

Are you thinking of adding in a partial payments ability?

Great Work!

Can you add ideal !

Thanks.

Totally in love with this plugin but it stopped working. I sent an invoice two days ago and everything worked fine. But now when I create new invoice, it says error saving. I tried to deactivate/reactivate but no go.

I’m so sad I’m serious, this is an awesome plugin and have no idea why it stopped working.

Yael

I love this plugin. Great job. Only request would be the ability for the user to print the invoice. I have tried getting this to work with wp-print but the invoice will not come up on the print page. Where could I insert this code to make it work:

I was using this AWESOME plugin but for some reason when I try and activate it I now get a 500 Internal server error .. so for some reason my my database server doesn’t like your plug. Ah well. Back to a Word Document – PDF invoice. lol

Keep up the great work.

NetDome, it’s a random number. The reason behind random invoice ids is security. Since your clients do not have to login to view their web invoices, they must follow a “secret” link, the random number is part of the unique link. If your invoices went in incremental order it would be too easy to look at other people’s invoices simply by guessing. An eight digit randomized number makes guessing invoice numbers more difficult to a point where the time taken to guess an invoice would outweigh the benefit of viewing it, hopefully. In any case, in the next release of WP-Invoice we added some new features due to popular request in regards to the invoice ids – you will be able to set a “beginning” custom invoice ID, and it will numerically increment with every new invoice, making bookkeeping easier.

Sorry for my last message it is 1 o’clock at night I meant:

Can you please tell me, how does the invoice number get generated? I mean what does this number stand for – 56243650?

Can you please tell me, what does the invoice number get generated? I mean what does this number stand for – 56243650?

Please add 2CheckOut!!!

Thanks!

This is the best plugin ever… I would pay $100. It works perfect!! If you could include client login and integrate with Quickbooks Online, you would be way too groovy… but I’m probably asking for too much.

I just upgraded to the latest and upgraded to WP 2.8 and tested it and it works great with WP 2.8. The only bug is the PayPal issue (which I just copied the function from 1.8 of the WP Invoice. Basically, if a negative is used, when it transfers to PayPal it does not work. (ie: -1 in the quantity, or -1 in the base price, or -10 in the total price of an item). When any of these are used, when you click pay and it goes to PayPal, it shows a blank page.

Awesome plugin though! Thanks for your work.

One last comment. The plugin “Permalink Redirect” also makes this plugin unusable for obvious reasons. Had to disable that one too.

@David Johnson, Thank you for posting on May 21st about the conflict with Wp-o-Matic. I went in today to create an invoice, found that my page/invoice was blank, and that I couldn’t access my settings. I deactivated Wp-o-Matic and all is well now. Thanks again for sharing your findings.

Oh, and thanks to Twin Cities Tech for the awesome plugin!

Wboy1 – issue fixed in latest release!

Good job with this plugin, easy to use, works great, thanks

Just upgraded WP to to 2.8 to test functionality, apparently the WP-Invoice no longer calculates invoice totals. Change the item quantities and prices all you want, nothing. If you start from a template, the total from that template is used to send to the customer on the new invoice, but it will NOT recalculate total amount due. Strange and bizarre.

I love this plugin. I would certainly pay $40+ for it and would normally expect to pay more. Cheers!

There is a paypal issue after 1.8. Basically it gives a blank page at paypal if you have any negative quantities or prices. In Functions.php:

I replaced:
$tax = 0;
$output = ”
\n
\n”;

$single_item = true;
break;
}

with:

unset($output);
unset($tax);

// In case this isn’t the first loop, unset anything we’ve done so far
$output = ” \n
\n”;

break;
}

and all works well again.

Ok, it seems that this plugin and AdSense Manager don’t work together. It was a easy decision though to jut remove AdSense Manager as I don’t use it on this site anyhow.

After upgrading to 1.9.2 and ten 1.9.3, I can no-longer access the setting for the plugin. Also, when someone clicks on the link to pay the invoice it goes to paypal and gives a blank page. The other issue is I have international clients. While it allows them to choose their country, the state dropdown only includes US and Canada in it. How about having the Country drop-down and then the state (according to the country).

David, the conflict was caused by WP-Invoice using the latest version of jQuery, while many other plugins relying on an older version. The conflict is resolved starting w/ WP-Invoice 1.9.3!

A fantastic idea and a great contribution to Wordpress! I totally fell i love with this plugin, it solves most of my billing problem. I voted for the 2Checkout Idea – You need to check them out if yoiu haven’t done so already. A great and reliable service – uncomplicated and easy to set up. Th only onlne merchant i am aware of that does not chrge monthly fees and also offer anaffilate program for all their clients!

Thanks for the many hrs of work you’ve put in here!

I found two plugins that were causing conflict, Wp-o-Matic and FormBuilder. Its working fine now, thank you@

I like this plugin! The only thing I miss is the ability to let clients login and see all their invoices in a single listing.

And is that for shop systems too? Perhaps with some modification? Hmm…but first impression is: Great plugin!

this plugin is great and has work flawlessly for a few months… (at least I thought) however, I was just doing some testing and when an invioce is processed, my customers are directed to a page that simply says “Transaction Okay”. No wrapper, css, nothing, just the plain text above.

I cannot find any documentation or settings in WP that will fix this…

How do I specify a confirmation page??? Not sure how long it has been doing this but use to work

thanks much

Love this plug in, but I’ve noticed you’ve just updated it to 1.91. Is there somewhere i can see a change log? I’ve made a few customizations to the display.php file and I want to see what i can merge or if i need to re do my changes.

Thanks.

Thanks – you guys rock! Just upgrades to 1.9!

Hi !

Thanks for your great Plugin.
But i need some extensions to it.
I created some entrys at your UserVoice Forum.
I would pay up to 250USD for this extensions, if you could implement this shortly.
After this the extension could be used from the hole communtiy.

Pls contact me.

Regards
Ralf

I want to display an authorize.net seal image on the invoice page. It shows up when I click on the page on my blog that I created for invoices, but when the customer clicks on the email link to pay, the invoice takes over the page and gets rid of everything but the invoice. Is there any way to keep the authorize.net image, or any text on that page?

What a fantastic plugin!

Unfortunately, I can’t get it to work – the email link to the invoices don’t work as it doesn’t match the admin link and the amount shown as owed on the invoice page always shows as £.00 and won’t accept payments (although the breakdown on the same page says money is owed…)

If you can get that sorted you’re on to a winner!

This plugin makes too many assumptions about how we want to invoice our customers rather than leaving that up to us.

No company profiles? We can only invoice registered users? Really?

I believe the problem I am having from lack of SMTP support to send the email. I am using Windows Server running PHP 5 and word press works great and I can seend all my email great in it, its just invoice will not wend the mail. can you help me with this.

If I could request one new feature it would be to have the option to remove the country field from the billing invoice and have the State/Province field be a plain input field. Just so that when the plug-in is updated by the site manager they don’t suddenly wonder why their site is US/Canadian focused!

I am having PROBLEM GETING WP-INVOICE TO SEND THE EMAIL OuT. Will not senda email to any one. ALL MY OTHER SEND WORK ON WORDPRESS 2.7 EXCEPT THIS ONE, any ideas, i could use the help

simon – no support for bank wire transaction right now, but if it is a feature you want, use the uservoice site to suggest it, if there are enough votes, we will integrate it.

Works great, thank you

do you support bank wire transfers as payment method?

Very useful plugin with an elegant feel to it, which is important for invoicing!

I am getting the same error “The plugin database tables are gone, deactivate and reactivate plugin to re-create them.” I redownload and installed the newest version and that added the new features but didn’t get ride of this error. also when i create an invoice I get as far as save a preview and it doesn’t work. (probably the same issue)

I am getting this error again and again after installing the plugin

“The plugin database tables are gone, deactivate and reactivate plugin to re-create them.”

I deactivate the plugin and again activate it but when I go to settings page it again gives the same error

How can I fix it?

Thanks. Don’t know what the problem was, but re-downloading from wordpress.org worked

Please download the latest version of WP-Invoice from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-invoice.zip
That bug has been fixed!

Great plugin and everything works great except for one thing… at the top of every page I now get this error:

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 1]
SELECT * FROM wp_invoice_main WHERE invoice_num =

Yet, when I create an invoice the user’s link for that invoice works & displays perfectly.

Any ideas?

awesome plug-in

It is not showing the Subject or the name of the customer in the email preview or the actual email. It is also not putting in the correct link in the email; however, the preview button works. I added the above to my .htaaccess file. Any suggestions? Please help!

Make sure you are using PHP 5. Remember, you can usually fix this by modifying your .htaccess file with the following line: AddHandler x-httpd-php5 .php

This may be different on your host, so I would recommend looking through their FAQ / forums first.

can i translate this plugin? i did not see a translation file.

T2B said…
Hy,

when I try 2 make a new invoice, I receive always this error…

# The plugin database tables are gone, deactivate and reactivate plugin to re-create them.

The WP version is latest (2.7)…

Any help?

tnx in advance
—————————-
I get the same error. Any suggestions what to look for? Thanks.

WP 2.7. New install of plugin, upgraded database from WP 2.6. Everytime I activate plug in and go to configuration page, it displays “The plugin database tables are gone, deactivate and reactivate plugin to re-create them.” I really need a fix, I want so much to use this plug in but can’t!!

The plugin seems to work mostly, but in the email that gets sent to the client, it does not put in their name, the amount of the invoice always states $.00 in the email and the link given is incorrect. This plugin only seems to work internally from the admin POV. Any suggestions?

Hy,

when I try 2 make a new invoice, I receive always this error…

# The plugin database tables are gone, deactivate and reactivate plugin to re-create them.

The WP version is latest (2.7)…

Any help?

tnx in advance

Hi,

The link for bug isn’t working so i’m posting this as a comment.

When I create a new invoice and add some items, the total invoice is not calculated (I get NaN instead). Do you know what’s wrong ?

Thanks

wow, it’s look great.

This looks great! Pulls more features and abilities for WordPress!

Thanks for sharing!

I’m getting a MySQL error after latest upgrade (to 1.8.2):
SELECT * FROM wp_invoice_main WHERE invoice_num =

Disabled plugin. Anyone else experiencing this? I’ve been at WP 2.7 for some time now…

I’m getting the following error, I can’t use this plugin. I don’t see any invoice and the error won’t stop. Even after re-installing and deleting the database tables. Hopefully will be corrected in the next verison.

Thanks.

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 1]
SELECT * FROM wp_invoice_main WHERE invoice_num =

Thank you for such a useful plugin.

Please add 2CheckOut!!!

Thanks!

WP-Invoice 1.8 released, and renamed to WP Invoice & Billing due to the addition of Authorize.net’s recurring billing. Many minor functions and features are added as well. Please feel free to submit more requests via UserVoice!

Nice Plugin! Thanks a lot!

This looks awesome. Thanks for creating this! Can’t wait for Authorize.net integration!

When I try to activate the plug-in, I get a 500 Error. It then appears as if it did not do anything, but when I try to move back to the page, it gives me errors covering the entire page such as “headers already sent…” and “table doesn’t exist…”
This plug-in looks amazing and exactly what I am looking for. Please help!

@Michael Hainsworth: I think this is not the purpose of this plugin. For something like that I would go with http://www.amember.com/

Hi there — A friend is running a site that he may make pay-only. I’d be nice to have this plug-in auto expire a subscription and mark the user as “free” after 1 year if they don’t pay for another year’s worth of access.

Thoughts?

Looks promising, I’ll check it out! Thanks for creating this

Oops sorry about that but thanks!!! that would be amazing!

Good idea, please try and use http://wpinvoice.uservoice.com/ for suggestions, it’s easier for me to keep tracks of requests that way. Nonetheless, I will integrate different currencies in next release.

Amazing plugin thank you!! Is there any way i can make it display prices in pounds instead of dollars??

Hi,

How about paying through moneybookers.com?
Will you integrate this option besides paypall, since paypall can’t be used in Croatia .

Thank you

Hey there,

This is a wonderful plugin! Absolutely brilliant work on this, so thank you. With WP 2.7 I’m having a slight problem tho. When I activate this plugin it seems to have an impact ont the functionality of the new ‘drop down’ menus on the standard sidebar menu and also the new fancy one in the top right hand corner. I’m going to assume it’s some clash with a bit of jquery or javascript somewhere…it doesn’t make a huge difference, but it might have an impact further down the line.

Hope this helps with bug squashing a little bit.

Thanks for this plugin once again, it’s an absolute gem.

Second the request for recurring invoices… or the ability to integrate with Paypal subscriptions, perhaps? Would be very useful for monthly support/hosting charges, for instance.

Fixed!

Is there an option for recurring invoice, for subscription billing, for example?

I got this error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_invoice_does_invoice_exist() in /home/content/l/o/v/loveandfreedom/html/wp-content/plugins/wp-invoice/invoice_plugin_frontend.php on line 41

Thats an excellent plugin. I would say this is #1 useful tool for web consultants. Great!

There still needs to be a way to print it, as book keepers need to have that copy. Just a button to print, and do a “screen shot” for that matter. Give me a holler… L8R. AL

Thanks for creating this plug-in – it looks great.

Merlyn,
Thank you! The next release will have credit card processing abilities via authorize.net! Give me a few days and it will be available for download here and at Wordpress Plugin directory.

Hi there:

I really like this plugin. Thanks for share it.

It would be nice if we could find different types to pay, not just PayPal.

Thanks for all,
–
.: Merlyn :.
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Technically it is e-commerce , although it is not an online store in any way. It is an invoicing application where every invoice, for every customer, is created separately.

Is for e-commerce?