{"id":79,"date":"2006-01-02T11:58:44","date_gmt":"2006-01-02T18:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/?p=79"},"modified":"2006-01-02T12:02:05","modified_gmt":"2006-01-02T19:02:05","slug":"the-paperless-invoice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/79\/the-paperless-invoice","title":{"rendered":"The Paperless Invoice"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s the beginning of the month, which means it’s invoice time for me. I very rarely send out paper invoices. These days most companies are hip enough to have addresses like AccountsPayable@<company>.com. So my low-volume invoicing mechanism involves a Pages<\/a> templates document, and a little manual copy and paste from my web-based hour-tracking system.<\/p>\n

\nOne company I work for makes things “easier” by requiring that I submit invoices through a nasty web invoicing system. Just about everything about this site is wrong. To add insult to injury, they charge me, the “supplier” for the privilege of stumbling my way through their ridiculous invoicing system. To be fair I haven’t run out of “free credits” that I got when I first signed up, but I’m really not looking forward to the day when I have to pay for this abuse.\n<\/p>\n

\nAmong the ridiculous things I must endure every month as I fill out the invoice data, is the selection of “units” for my “hourly work” line item. It’s always “hours,” just like every other professional consulting service is almost always “hours.” But hours aren’t special to this company – they’re just another item smack-dab in the middle of the world’s most comprehensive list of invoicing units, and I have to scroll down to the middle of it every time:\n<\/p>\n

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