Today there are tons of solutions to get your business online up and running, your invoices, expenses, tasks etc. Invoice Ninja is not just one of them, but one of the best that we have tried until today. Built with Laravel and Flutter, and available for both desktop and mobile, it provide a simple intuitive and responsive interface.
To use it, simply create an account and confirm it, then upload company logo and details, enable payment gateway (Choose from 40+ gateways), and you are ready to create invoices, emails, and get paid ! Invoice Ninja can help you also to manage quotes, proposals, customers, time work tasks and projects, import expenses and vendors, recurring and auto-billing clients, and much more.
Invoice Ninja for Enterprise
The enterprise paid solution provide additional features such as multiple company support, proposal creation tool, attach 3rd Party Files to Invoices & Expenses, Custom Domain “YourCompany.com/link”, Attach Invoice & Quotations PDFs to Emails, Fully Customizable Invoice Design, and much much more ! Pro plans starts from $10/monthly and Enterprise starts from $14/monthly for 1-2 users.
All Pro and Enterprise features from the hosted app are included in the open-source code. The self-host zip includes all third party libraries whereas downloading the code from GitHub requires using Composer to install the dependencies. Mobile app source code also available built in Flutter.
Invoice Ninja self-hosted installation requires PHP 7.0, 7.1 or 7.2 and MySQL. Detailed documentation is available for different operating systems and web servers. Also you can choose automatic installation using Ansible, Dockerfile, Cloudron, Lando, Yunohost or Softaculous. For payment provider you can choose between Stripe and Postmark, which cover most payment providers that you may need to run the application.
Finally the application code is very well documented whether you want to integrate via the application API, or SDK. You can easily create, share and install custom modules. Third party modules, and tools are also available such as Event Scheduler, Manufacturer Module, Point of Sale, Invoice Design Import/Export, InvoicePlane Import, Toggl Sync, Shopping Cart, and Bold Compass.
Overall, Invoice Ninja didn’t seems to miss any feature to boost your business and get you up and running quickly, with SAAS or self-hosted solution. Actually latest stable version is 4.5, while the version 5.0 is already available in RC2 update with tons of new features such as group settings, expanded customization & advanced settings, life-cycle of an invoice, payments at client level, expanded tasks & projections functionality. More features not yet live in the V5 such as Banking integrations, Proposals, Statements, and more payment gateways coming soon.
We suggest you to get started by creating you Invoice Ninja account, then decide about the version that you need Free, Pro, Enterprise or Self-hosted.
