Everyone That Uses Quickbooks

[Scotty B's Lawn Svc]

Hardly ever mail invoices anymore all are done through email

[White Gardens]

Same here, I might have 4 clients out of 40 that I have to still mail to.



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[Weekend cut easymoney]

email all my commercial and 99 out of 100 of residential--many pay via credit cards--I started emailing 10-12 years ago...made yearly contracts and accepted credit cards and has made my life a lot easier--

billing solutions allows you track invoices, who has viewed them, payment reminders etc...

[Scotty B's Lawn Svc]

yes 99% of my billing is emailed through quick books & they have the option to pay online through the invoice. As for paper invoice i can't remember the last time i printed one out. Anything that isnt billed online is cash acccounts, most of the time

[cpllawncare]

I started out e mailing with quickbooks but soon realized that everybody doesn't keep up with their e mail nearly as much as snail mail, cash flow was terrible so I went back to mailing invoices, I wish I could do automatic billing with a credit card but most folks here won't go for that.

[dieselfuel]

Originally Posted by White Gardens

If you want to try and customize your own quickbooks template you can.

It's a .des file which is associated with the corel software.

You can also use any standard software and use a free .des converter to get it in the correct format.


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what software would be best for doing this? i'm thinking either word or maybe photoshop? i have both, but dont want to waste time starting it in one or the other.

[White Gardens]

I think just about any program that allows you to save as a .des file.

I think the file is associated with Corel programs though.



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[Weekend cut easymoney]

Originally Posted by dieselfuel

what software would be best for doing this? i'm thinking either word or maybe photoshop? i have both, but dont want to waste time starting it in one or the other.

Qb has an editor that does most anything...fancy invoices don't get paid faster than well laid out and uncluttered...

[CL&T]

I think just about any program that allows you to save as a .des file

.des is exclusive to Corel Draw. Even Adobe Illustrator (their competitor and probably more popular) doesn't support .des.

[dieselfuel]

Originally Posted by Weekend cut easymoney

Qb has an editor that does most anything...fancy invoices don't get paid faster than well laid out and uncluttered...

I'm looking to make a more professional looking estimate/proposal than the typical form. i know QB has an editor, but it is clunky for trying to change too much. my invoices probably won't change, just the estimates.