The end of the month is upon you; the company legal department wants new language added to the bottom of the standard invoice and the purchasing manager would like to change the detail lines for invoice items to better match the descriptions in the purchasing system. Finding a solution that is cost effective without investing in a major technology project is the hope of any applications manager.
Far too often, companies find that the cost of implementing a change in a software product or an application feature can require significant expenditures.
Business applications are built on layers of technology, from the network and server to the database and application systems. In the case of applications reports, vendors often build static reports that query data from the database and present it in the form of a report. Commonly lacking the ability to customize reports, including invoices, these software applications often require software modifications in order to create tailored reports.
FileMaker Invoice is designed specifically to address this lack of software design flexibility. Built to easily access data using FileMaker software, this invoice creation software serves the data up to FileMaker developers to be manipulated. The beauty of FileMaker Invoice is that new versions of invoices can be created without compiling or programming. Instead, on-screen tools make it easy to add text, manipulate graphics and integrate data from multiple sources.
Another advantage of FileMaker Invoice is the ability to have multiple versions of invoices. Such flexibility means that customized, customer-specific invoices can be personalized so slogans, messages and other information can be shared with the client.
Extending the power of the architecture inside FileMaker Pro Templates, a FileMaker developer can add significant features to invoices that integrate with other application features, like workflow, where an invoice approver can be alerted when an invoice is due or that a certain customer has exceeded a pre-set condition.
