 So there's an updated version of invoice ninja. They've added a few more features and for those of you that may have just discovered this now I've been using invoice ninja for quite a while. We have about 20,000 invoices in the system and Over 6,000 clients now this includes our retail store as well So there's a lot of data that we use in here and I've been really happy that now There's two versions of invoice ninja not really two versions, but two ways to use it So here you have invoice ninja comm and here's the pricing on it free forever ninja pro plan Enterprise plan that means they host it and take care of everything for you and it's really nice so if you don't want to go through trouble of setting up a server or Understanding how to manage security on a server. They will do it for you for eight bucks a month or free for the most basic plan And if you're a bigger company depending on number of users Like three to five users $18 a month really inexpensive So we're using the self-hosted version because well my background is in setting up servers and working in IT So we'll talk about the free and open source version It's really the same thing whether you have this or that and this is a wonderful concept They have is they offer a free version that you can download. It's all open source They're entire code development process is done on GitHub So it's you can interact directly with the developers and you can host it yourself or their monetization model You can pay them to host it. They're the ones that wrote it. They do a good job hosting it So let's jump into what's new in the latest version and it says a few things, but they're really nice One of the big ones This is this last four or five one just a couple minor issues They're quick in the forums by the way because you notice that Ten days later and then last night just a couple posts in the forum Someone found a little bug here and there on the self-install version and they quickly updated to fix that there The developers are wonderful for this project. I will say that that means a lot Because you can interact with them if you have ideas and I talked to them about the user permission idea and how it's You know with a discussion with some other people in the forum and boom They added a really nice granular user permission. So that's been added So for those of you that I skipped over that in my larger review That's now a feature in here enhanced product drop-down selector. I'll just show you that one that one's cool Made translations files update safe. It has a lot of translation support So it comes in many languages adding statements to the client portal definitely really cool What this does is allow the client and I have an example of it here You can turn this on in a portal and allow a client to download an entire history of their interactions with your billing system Which means they can see the payments made the invoices they can view all the invoices They can see what checks or payment types they made so if they paid you via PayPal they paid you be a check However, those payments were entered it all shows up in the statement for the client Now you can download this internally and mail it to them But isn't it great when the client can self-service you can send them a link to their own portal and from that portal You can they can view all the settings and all the things that happen This has actually been really handy when clients have Internal disorganization issues and who hasn't worked with a disorganized client just because we have all of our ducks in a row Does not mean our clients always do Which leads to occasional? We don't remember what invoices are paid not paid and we don't have a good record You can just send them a record and they actually because it's self-service they can choose date ranges to find the things Out and sort them out. So it's really cool that they have that Go back over here to release notes Now zap your improvements, I haven't really used much of this, but it's kind of neat one of the things invoice danger has a lot of support for Is integrations with other cloud products? So they support zap your functions pie sync and we'll open a couple of these new tabs So automate invoice engine integration use that here This is actually kind of cool because you can do things like slack notifications is up here You can create invoice danger clients from a new pipeline person So it has options that as they integrate into other platforms So add invoice danger clients to MailChimp list These are nice little automations you can do so you can say hey man I've got all these clients in here and I want to just send a mailing list and please make sure these people agree to get on Your mailing list But there's a one-click option so you can just export all that right into a MailChimp and then send out your newsletter So those are some just a couple of them and of course sky's the limit This is all open source. So if you want to configure custom more features, just add them and modify the code Hi sync is interesting as well, which I hadn't heard of this previously, but it allows you to sync all your contacts into here So if you're an independent freelancer, awesome You can get in here and take and do an integration so when your Google contacts get added They also get added to your system So someone can go from a basic contact to a customer and it the flow through stays in sync and something changes It changes in both places. So with a lot of people using Google Cloud or Office 365 Any of these other integrations and there's quite a list of ones on that support here So this is great and including like HubSpot's on here So if you're using HubSpot for some of your marketing automation You can tie in your HubSpot list and integrate them sync them with your invoice ninja So it's just really cool that they keep any more of this and This creates a very automated workflow for your payments and like I said He was worked with us on a hired us for projects, especially remotely for like YouTube We just use invoice engine. You get an invoice link. You can pay it We actually get an instant email notification that you paid it That's actually a more filtered option. They add it as well. So you can say don't show me all the payment notifications We actually get them have them set up a little bit different because of filtering But you can have the email notifications come back right to the person at Senate And we're probably going to be doing that and moving it with us So each person will only get the emails related to their Invoices so that way they if they create a quote for client if that quote approves it directly emails the person created the quote So having several employees that's gonna be very handy right now We have slack messages for that and well, that's a whole different talk Now I want to show you right here. This is the final piece the how they change So this is our McTest face client and our production system. We use this anytime. We want to test invoices and Whatever playing stuff we want to do to see how something works or when we're doing some training So we're gonna go over here and do new invoice And this is how it looks when we first create a new invoice and all the different things They show up better instead of just showing us a basic like data drop as the product It actually fills in and you can mouse over so you can see all the different ones and then mouse over and get the details And it auto fills and auto complete. So if we look at like the managed services one So here's our information for managed services per workstation. Whoops if I type it right and Fills it all in like this and Creates the invoice on the fly right here So it's a little bit easier because now you we are keep adding more and more products as we had services We do especially with the remote stuff. So we're we don't mind flat rating certain things So we'll build those things in here and then we can just type in the unit cost quantity, you know, so 50 bucks 15 and away we go now we have an invoice for 750 dollars just ready to go hit email in its sense But yeah, these little tightening up of integrations They do and suggestions and that make me really happy with invoice But so this is kind of a brief updated video if you want to see invoice ninja more in-depth my other Longer tutorials are still completely relevant for using this system. Like I said, I did some in-depth Deep deeper dive into the entire invoice into platform. Let's see if we use it for our system and we're really happy with it So that's just a follow-up video on here. I may do a video at some point They have an integration that I haven't used but they allow you to actually integrate with your website So customers can come in there and buy products and set up right away with complete automation So when they click buy it flows through your system as a Client workflow, which is pretty cool. I haven't done a video on that yet But it's a pretty neat feature they have so you can integrate it as a shopping cart on your website And that's that's our neat feature. Like I said, I'm still exploring how all of it works But it does let you create these buy it now buttons You can embed onto your website and just create a better workflow and flow through so you can use it now What I like about that compared to hey Tom, there's already a million stores out there I know but when you're a hybrid company like us that's doing some retail work doing some Online remote work doing a whole lot of local work There's all these different interactions We haven't having everything in just one system where all the money comes in becomes a lot easier to track things So if you have multiple systems and you have to then sink those multiple systems back into one system Now you have a more complicated Integration so I'm always thinking about efficiencies and workflows and I love that all this is open source because we've customized things and added features Played around with it And then you can just talk to the developers and give them the code that you created and say hey Can you integrate this and they'll review it and if it looks good and if it's helpful they'll incorporate it Like I said, they really have embraced the open source development cycle This is a quick update on the invoiced into a product that we're still using and still really happy with Thanks for watching if you liked this video go ahead and click the thumbs up Leave us some feedback below to let us know any details what you like and didn't like as well because we love hearing a feedback Or if you just want to say thanks leave a comment If you wanted to be notified of new videos as they come out go ahead and subscribe and the bell icon that lets YouTube know That you're interested in notifications. 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