Invoid, effortless invoicing

Like one of my previous airplane coding sessions, I accidentally stumbled upon a potential project.
For my consultancy, I’m trying to solve these relatively simple problems:

* I need to send an invoice to my customers every month.
* Right now, I have to make a backlog of 10.
* I want some tool that gives me a list of customers with invoices.
* I don’t want to manually change any Word documents every time or learn how to use automated Excel generation with Word templates and all that stuff.

Ok, here we go. First you open MS Word and make a one time document:

make a template

You save the file as .rtf and upload it to your Invoid account. In your Invoid account you can manage a list of customers and invoices. When creating a new invoice, most fields will be auto-filled-in, making it a very quick process. When clicking on ‘download PDF’ or ‘download RTF’ the fields DELIVERABLES, DATE and CUSTOMER etc. will be replaced with the data of that invoice.

Here’s a little layout mockup (trying to use avocado colors :p):
frontpage mock

Most of this is already working in a Rails mockup I couldn’t resist coding. So once I’ve solved this problem for myself I will add a user model on top of the functionality and roll it out :]
Still todo: support a Open-DOC and Mac format too, RTF2PDF conversion can be done with tool called ted, making some forms, lists and logins, finalizing layout and domain, roll out, drink beer.

I know there are numerous other tools to do this, like the horrible (not working on MAC!) tool: [reeleezee.nl](http://reeleezee.nl) or just doing MS Office magic. But I don’t care! HAHA!