Email Invoices

[Joseph Crawford Jr.]

Yes,

all i would like to see is a basic invoice email feature like peachtree and
quickbooks has, both of those programs have a canned message such as here is
invoice #10100 for the amount of blah please pay this inoice within 30 days.

the only things that need to be customizable are the invoice #, the total
price and the days payable which should be options in gnucash anyway.

Joe Crawford Jr.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Derek Atkins" <warlord at MIT.EDU>
To: "Linas Vepstas" <linas at linas.org>
Cc: <gnucash-devel at gnucash.org>; <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: Email Invoices


> linas at linas.org (Linas Vepstas) writes:
>
> >> The subject line can be hard-coded into a preference.  The cover
> >
> > well, that woul'd rather suck, now wouldn't it?
>
> Honestly I think it would suffice for a large number of users, so, no
> I don't think that would suck.  Besides, it's just a default.
>
> >> letter, IMHO, can again be a short text as a preference..  "Here is
> >> your invoice from <business name> as of <invoice date>".  The email
> >> address is already stored in the customer information.
> >
> > We must be talking about two different things.  My Cover letters
> > say things like, "Hi Joe, this is what I was telling you about over the
> > phone, and the details are half way down, talk to you later, bye".
> >
> > You're talking about form letters, and for that, I suppose that's great.
>
> We're clearly talking about different things -- I'm talking about...
> TADA.... EMAILING INVOICES!  It's what this thread is about.  This
> thread is NOT about "emailing random gnucash reports".  Just look at
> the subject.
>
> When I email an invoice to a client I usually don't put much of a
> cover letter on.  Sometimes I'll put a "here's the invoice for this
> month" in it.  It's not rocket science, and frankly if you read the
> thread this is all that was being requested: emailing invoices to
> customers.
>
> > But *none* of my interesting gnucash reports are "invoices",
> > none have "customers" associated with them.  I usually just
> > email snippets out of the register reports.  So solving the
> > problem narrowly for business invoices just leaves me cold;
> > its a broader problem than that.
>
> Then we're clearly talking about different things.  Yes, this leaves
> you cold.  Eit.  Sorry.  This feature isn't for you.
>
> Emailing invoices is a simple problem..  Emailing reports in general
> is a HARD problem.  A number of people have asked for the simple
> problem to be solved.  So, let's solve it (especially since it really
> isn't that hard!).  If you want to solve the harder problem, great.
> If not, that's fine with me, too.
>
> > --linas
>
> -derek
>
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