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Are you from Norway and own an iPhone? Congratulations then because the brand-new version of iFacturas is already available in the App Store only for Norway !! Be the first in downloading or updating the improved iFacturas billing application that will allow you to create and send invoices on the go rapidly with your iPhone !! This new version is safer , since it uses https protocol and it's easier to use, since we have designed a n ew user interface that makes our app more intuitive for you. You can download this app in the App Store link you will find in this blog (right side) or in our website www.ifacturas.com Any comment you might have, please share it with us and our users in our blog, facebook fan page or by e-mail. Enjoy invoicing. Remember that our experience in billing has been used to enhance your billing experience.

Folk går over fra å bruke PC til til mobile post-PC enheter som smartphones og leseplater. Veksten av PC salget har nesten stoppet helt opp og salget av smartphones og leseplater har eksplodert. Store folkegrupper, som i India og Kina hopper simpelthen over PC-generasjonen , og starter sin internett-tidsalder rett på mobile enheter. Horace Dediu viser at mobilabbonenter har blitt mer enn doblet fra 2.2B i 2005 til 5.5B i 2010. Mobilt internett, eller 3G, har imidlertid økt med 14 ganger fra 67 til 940 millioner i det samme tidsrummet. Horace diskuterer her om hvordan iOS eller Android kan erobre denne milliarden . Facebooks har valgt å kjøpe Snaptu, produsent av apps på Java Phones. Snaptu har nylig laget en facebook app for Java Phones. Jeg tror dette er deres forsøk å nå deres milliard. For deg som bruker mobile enheter - nå kan du endelig få gjøre administrative rutinearbeid effektivt og rimelig! Min hypotese er at nye brukere i OECD og de fleste i utviklingsland vil fa...

@claes Claes Magnusson @ mortjac  Varför ingen svensk version? Hade köpt direkt. 1 hour ago   via  Tweetie for Mac   Favorite   Retweet   Reply Tweets mentioning  @mortjac Selvfølgelig kommer det en svensk versjon, Claes. For oss er det bare spørsmål om ressurser. Som desverre igjen betyr tid. Her er en kortversjon om hvordan jeg tenker meg hvordan release svensk versjon: Det første og viktigste er at en svenske spør oss, slik som du har gjort, og siden flere svensker. Når vi har en stor nok gruppe svensker setter vi opp en Facebook gruppe. Der vil vi legge ut den versjonen som svenskene vil bygge på, f.eks. den norske, som inneholder norsk kontoplan, mva liste, norske titler og tekster og selve fakturaen.  Så ber vi våre svenske venner finne en regnskapsfører og en revisor. Med denne svenske gruppen vil vårt "IRFS Lite" team jobbe frem den grunnlaget for den svenske versjonen. Når denne er ferdig og godkjent av våre svenske venner lager våre ut...

Ny versjon og nye priser! Som at det ikke er nok med enklere betaling og sikre kommunikasjon slår vi på stortrommer og senker prisene. 6 kroner er alt vi tar for du fakturerer på verdens enkleste mobile faktura app. Dette beløpet dekker utviklingskostnader, vedlikehold og lagring for deg i ti år. Jeg synes dette er riktig pris. Hva mener du? Teamet jobber med utskriftsenter versjonen. Den kommer, og den kommer snart. Med den kan vi skrive ut, pakke, frankere og sende fakturaen for deg.

Jeg er stol over å kunne fortelle at vi har sendt versjon 1.4 til iPhone App Store. Så i løpet av et par-tre uker har dere en ny versjon. Denne versjonen har mest interne egenskaper som ikke er så synlige. Det handler om sikkerhet og enkel betaling. Usynlige men viktige og ganske så tidkrevende. Toni har stått på som en helt! iFacturas bruker nå kryptert kommunikasjon med vår server. Vi har implementert In App Purchase slik at nå betaler du for sendte fakturaer med din konto i iTunes. Kryptering og enkel betaling - det høres lite ut ikke sant? Men sikkerhet og enkel betaling er hva Apple kan tilby som ikke andre plattformer har. Så med dette kan du lage fakturaer like enkelt som tidligere. Med større sikkerhet for dataene dine forblir urørt og med enklere betaling. Og skulle du ikke ha den så last den ned her . Den er gratis å laste ned! Lykke til!

...post-PC devices [that] need to be easier to use than a PC, more intuitive. The hardware and softwaare need to intertwine more that they do on a PC. - says Steve Jobs at the iPad 2 launch. Our challenge as billing apps creators are to transfer this to enterpise software domain. As we already are in the second generation of our apps, we always like to discuss this Post-PC issue. Here are the 5 most important hardware requirements you should expect for an app in a post-PC billing scenario: Mobile Geolocation Photos and videos Cloud storage Touch gestures An accounting app should be as simple as an ledger We experience that the use of mobile hardware and software features are able to speed up the billing process ten times compared to PC. And we know we charge less than the PC market. What do you think. Are there more in it than my 5 takes?

Norwegian business people, are very lucky to have so many advanced solutions to help us manage our financials (ie. accounting and invoicing) But now, even more so, we are the first country where iFacturas allows self-employed professionals, freelances, and small business owners to invoice from the iPhone anywhere they are. Invoicing at the point of service or invoicing on the go are the basic advantages iFacturas offers. Furthermore, iFacturas’ users can create new customers within seconds. They are able to experience automatic selection of the client to invoice, thanks to geo-location. It’s really awesome to see how easy and fast a new customer can be created from scratch when you are at his office or place: you press the geo-location button and…that’s it. You don’t have to type the whole address! Once it’s registered, and you go visit him again, when turning on iFacturas, the app immediately knows it’s him/her the one you are invoicing thanks to this useful location feature. iFac...

Actually they say FreshBooks, but since we also are in the business, I felt free to paraphrase it. For my own account I want to add that online mobile billing is even more underrated. And to FreshBook and ours delight, I do foresee that the market will explode this year. A post from Fresh Thinking by John Coates has the whole story . Here is a part: #4 — FreshBooks, enough to invoice a big gun FreshBooks , a cloud-based small business bookkeeping service, made it to this list via recommendation from  Eilene Zimmerman , startups, entrepreneurship and innovative tech writer, who noted, “I was amazed that I could invoice like a big gun –for free–and it’s right there online.” I could invoice a big gun? Hm. I’m sold!

The global IT market is now in the middle of a disruptive period , where mobile technology and social media are taking over. A sure sign is the market valuation of Apple and Facebook . I will take a look at the state of an Enterprise Resource Planning and Financial software , I call it ERP from now, and will try to imagine the way at head. I will also tell about my company's attempt to meet some of these challenges. It is s a quite special market segment: - local and region software provider dominate geographic markets - it's accepted that extensive professional training is needed - sectorized - business critical These may be some of the reasons that the software - uses obsolete soft technology (COBOL, DOS) - if they use internet they may be dependent on IE6 Which again makes ERP to be - extremely expensive - normally not very user friendly Normally enterprises don't encourage the utilization of new technology , so many workers find their access to socia...

Endelig kan det løsne litt for norske småbedrifter. Vi kan slippe revisor (rekk opp handa den som vil fortsette), og nå kan vi også fakturere fra mobilen. Det som ennå ligger som en klam hånd over næringslivet er formuesskatten. Hvis vi skulle være så heldige å finne opp noe lurt, kan vi bli rammet mye hardere enn noen småbedrift i Europa. Jeg skrev om det at vi nå kan slippe revisor her. Om det å fakturere på mobil har @Revaliente og jeg skrevet til nå 65 ganger i denne bloggen. Klikk på denne linken for å se alle artiklene om iFacturas. Vi i iFacturas, Hans, Revaliente, Toni, Bego, Oscar og jeg ønsker dere alle en godt nytt år. Håper dere fakturerer masse og at kundene deres betaler! Det siste skal jeg komme tilbake til senere på nyåret.

What's making an invoice service really easy to use. I'm always looking at how my competitors are doing it. They seem to be stuck on the Web however, and have exluded lists. Strange.... But PCMag is normally good in testing and evaluating. So there is a lot to learn! A post from from PC Magazine: New Product Reviews has the whole story . Here is a part: Sage is best known—in the small business accounting world—for its powerful, flexible line of Peachtree accounting software and related services, which compete with QuickBooks Premier Edition 2011, our Editors' Choice for small business accounting. But at the other end of the spectrum is Sage's very simple invoicing solution, Billing Boss. This Web site lets you create, send, and track one-time and recurring invoices; assess taxes and record payments; and share data with an accountant or bookkeeper. These services are free with no limits on the number of invoices and quotes you can create. But there's a stunning...

Verden forandrer seg. Akkurat som mini-maskiner overtok fra stormaskiner, PC fra mini og internett fra PC, overtar nå mobil data markedet fra PC og internett. Overtar er kanskje å ta litt hardt i, det gamle stagnerer, vokser ikke lenger. PC og internettmarkedet er ikke lenger stedet for nye visjoner, ideer eller oppfinnelser. Det skjer på mobil. Og det er med mobilen i hånd vi i fremtiden vil tjenere pengene. Det er på den vi vil starte, drive og legge ned bedrifter. Derfor skal du starte med mobil fakturering nå. Du skal benytte sjansen vi gir deg til å være litt før de fleste, slik at du forstår litt mer av det nye mobile markedet og arbeidslivet enn andre. Du skal starte med mobil fakturering for å tjene penger. Og, det fine er at du kan forberede deg på fremtiden uten at det koster deg mer! Last ned iFacturas fra Apple App Store nå . Det er gratis. Det tar et minutt å starte opp (du må skrive inn mailadressen din og brukernavn). Det tar sjelden mer enn et minutt å lage og se...

Hi, iFacturas' latest version is going to be launched today. I very much encourage you to download iFacturas right here and right now , so that you can see our brand-new features : invoices sent in .pdf format , ability to choose the invoice number you want to start with, and last but not least, with the message that lets you know that you can send as many invoices as you need by e-mail from your iPhone with iFacturas for free ! The second feature I've mentioned above is really smart and convinient for you, since you can now switch from your previous invoicing system and move to iFacturas continuing with your invoice numbers sequentially. Doing so, you will not have any problem at all and you will now feel the freedom of invoicing on the go with your iPhone. Be mobile, be fast. Be iFacturas: bill faster, get paid sooner.

Hi everyone! These days are very challenging for all of us. It's time to start saying goodbye to 2010 and looking forward to receiving 2011 with great expectations , wishing it's way better than the previous year. It's also time to get together with family, friends and colleagues. Time to enjoy good food and drinks. But among all theses things, it's time to think about what to change in the upcoming year. One year ends with an accounting and invoicing system, and a new one starts with iFacturas . Yes, it's time to change : to get rid of the chains of your old desktop invoicing and accounting software. Or time to say "bye" to the PC or web-based invoicing and accounting system because it doesn't provide you with the mobility and freedom you need . Yes! It's time to change . Time to say "hi" to a new year and a new revolutionary way of taking care about your financials by yourself in an extraordinary easy and fast way . Time to sa...

With iFacturas you don't have to bookkeeping, either on paper or on PC. We do it the cloud for you! You don't have to do anything. Because iFacturas is already an accouning app. So when you create and send your invoice, iFacturas automatically posts the correct transactions to sale, account receivable, products and bank account. The system it's even taking the VAT into the accounts and posting it to where your tax authorities want it to be posted. So, if you're not particulary interested in accounting, then don't do anything. iFacturas takes care of it . But, if you care too much about the accounting you're currently running, don't worry at all. First and foremost, iFacturas is running on a SQL based ERP program on Microsoft Azure. And we have a beta browser accounting program already running . This program is aimed to be useful for accountants, and provide the accountant with an optimized interface where the accountant can work through piles of do...

Hi everyone! I’m very happy to announce that from this week on, iFacturas’ users will be allowed to send invoices for free until next January 15 th . My recommendation for you if you live in Norway and need an awesome tool that allows you to invoice on the go and at the point of service is that you get iFacturas downloaded in the App Store or in this page and start using it. iFacturas is always free to use, but now, for a limited time, you can send as many invoices as you want for free by e-mail from your iPhone . We will be really happy if you do hundreds of bills with iFacturas . That will mean you are doing great and we want our users to do always great. Remember FREE invoices sent from your iPhone’s e-mail until January 15 th !! We are glad to make you feel glad. In a couple of days this promo will be available, just wanted you to be the first ones in knowing about this Christmas Gift that iFacturas wants to deliver to you. Keep tuned here for latest news! 

What a busy couple of weeks for iFacturas . Last November 29 th we started our promotion tour in Zaragoza, Spain to compete for the Innovate!100 Startup of the Year (as you might already know by Morten, we were selected as the second best in Scandinavia , the thirteenth in Europe and the twenty-first in the world ). Right after, iFacturas flew to Dusseldoft and there in Germany, we made a presentation about iFacturas in the European Venture Summit . Lots of companies and business people were really thrilled about iFacturas. They were all wondering when we were offering our services in their respective countries. iFacturas, as you know, is now available in Norway . In a couple  of weeks also in Spain and then we will go global , allowing any single professional in the entire world use iFacturas to manage the invoicing and accounting . First, in the United States , and then introducing the accounting practices of any other country. From Norway, another plane took iFacturas to O...

The sixteen companies that chose to pitch in Zaragoza, Spain. iFacturas (earlier no excuse accounting) has made it to the top 100 list outstanding and fast-moving startup companies from around the world. The List was developed after more than 30 Pitch Slam events on five continents over the past 10 months, as part of the Innovate! 2010 program.   Placement on the list was determined by a combination of the company’s G/SCORE assessment, stage and pace of growth, and business potential. Actually we're the only, and then the best in Norway. We're number 5 in Spain, 13 in Europe and 21 in the world. Thanks to Toni, Reva, Bego, Oscar, Inge and Hans who have made this possible. And thanks to all other that have helped us through our first year. Between them Microsoft BizSpark, Guidewire Group, Anne and Helge. A post from innovate.com by has the whole story . Here is the part whitch explains G/Score and the 21 first companies in the list: The G/SCORE measures a company al...

Startup guru Chris Shipley preparing... @Revaliente and myself is attending http://innovate100.com GStudio master class and final startup pitch slam in Zaragoza, Spain. An we are here because of Microsoft BizSpark and the Guidewire Group. Together with 24 other startups from US and Europe we shall compete for the global « Startup of the year » title. An elevator pitch is a one minute speech with the objective of creating interest and even do some screening. The pitch aims to make the listener remember: Your name Your company name Your 3 word mantra As you know, you only have 20 seconds where the listener is concentrated and open. I choose to start like this: Hi, I’m a General Ledger visionary . To me i find it ridiculous to see professionals stuck in the old way of doing billing and accounting. On internet, I call myself mortjac . I also happen to be CEO and founder of iFacturas in Spain and Norway, iFacturas provides financial apps on mobile and Facebook . ...

Bego and Toni are busy testing the new invoice layout in PDF. We had to buy a component, and it was difficult to get one that ran on Windows Azure. We are actually working on the WP7 version, but since iPhone and Windows Phone 7 are sharing the same backbone, both will be updated. I've managed to get a preview of the one Bego was working so that you could see how nice it looks like. Hope you like it. If you have comments, just use #ifacturas in Twitter and we see it. You can of course also comment on the blog ;)