eCommerce in 2004
I've been trying to get away from Quickbooks for a long time; it's really not designed for online businesses and content providers. After the developer's conference in New Orleans, we decided to starting using PayPal for most of our credit card transactions. I blame them for the success of my chest, as the payment form was supremely simple to set up. Ponz has been using their Outlook plugin for digital invoicing lately, although accountants-at-large don't seem to understand that a PayPal account is no longer required to use all of their services. We're gonna try these folks to see if their product can move us one step closer to the Intuit-free square.
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2 Comments
wisequark
September 19th, 2004
at 7:17am
Call me old fashioned…but whatever happened to just slapping together a db for it? When I found myself needing a more scalable solution for my own business I coded a php script that would utilize a locally running copy of mysql (easily changeable should i need to do it from a remote server…at the moment though i don't want to make the webserver public on my network).
Anonymous
November 18th, 2004
at 12:55pm
This is a solution I like better. Has a great free account (unlimited invoices, up to 40 clients for free – at least for now!):
http://www.online-invoicing.com
Re: whatever happened to just slapping together a db for it?
Features, uptime, security. Let other people do there thing, let me do mine.
Great Blog by the way Chris.
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