In the screenshot on the left you'll see two variations of the exact same page. On the top is the New Invoice form from the current live Blinksale application. On the bottom is the exact same form from Blinksale 2.0 in development.
Care to guess which version is more feature rich? While its hard to tell from these small screens (since its all we're going to give you now), the form on the bottom probably includes about 50 percent more features than the form on the top. You see, when we finalized our feature and improvements list for Blinksale 2.0 we had two goals. The first, obviously, was to add to the power and functionality of the application.
The second goal was to make the application even simpler than it already is today. For those who already use Blinksale, you know that this is a tough order. It's already pretty darn easy to use. Simplifying the complex is no easy task, but the rewards are great. Consequently, we've hashed and rehashed design concepts, looking for ways to improve the personal experience of billing your clients.
In order to add features and simplify the experience, we've had to ask ourselves what each page is about. In this case, this page shown is about creating the invoice. In the present version of Blinksale, there are some features on this page that are not about creating the invoice. They might be about paying the invoice, or sending the invoice, but not creating it. Those features have now been moved to their rightful place. This allows us more room to add tools that are about creating the invoice.
These improvements will let you create invoices even faster, with more ease, and oddly enough, more flexibility all at the same time. Blinksale 2.0 has the ability to change your entire mindset about billing your clients. And simplifying the complex is one way we're going to make this happen.
Update: Under the Radar notes Blinksale in a recent post about Web 2.0 along with 37signals, Flickr, Gmail, Writely, and a couple others. That's some fine company.
Derek Nelson says
Love it. I have some upcoming projects that I'm eager to invoice with Blinksale.
Miko says
I miss the little lightbulb guy.
Kyle Schembri says
Can't wait!
Bobby says
Release date?
lucas says
let's have that API already!
Josh Williams says
The little lightbulb guy is not dead. He's just hiding. He asked that he not appear in first run screenshots of the new UI. He's just not into teasers.
We're not going to publish a release date. It will happen when it will happen, but we're pretty far along in development. We won't keep you waiting long. And yes, the API will be a part of this release cycle. We changed some logic around at the core of the app, so the API had to change as well. You'll be pleasantly surprised.
Justin Kamerer says
I love blinksale. The only additional element I could think of to immediately request would be a pdf export. That would be wonderful.
Nick says
Features to add:
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1. Export to PDF would be awesome.
2. As well as what was previously mentioned about having an open text field to allow use to type our own Invoice Terms.
George says
FYI ... I would be nice if a forum existed for BlinkSale where we could talk about this instead of having to use your blog.
Having such categories as "requested features" etc. would be nice.
Pat Collins says
Go Blinksale, go!
I could use a drag/drop feature to re-order items in invoices. Any chance that will be a shiny new feature?
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Jacques Marneweck says
Will the API docs be available before Blinksale 2.0 launch so that one can start developing to use and test the API interface?
John says
I'd like to be able to create a ProForma Invoice, you know for clients who want to get an official quotation before the start of the job. Then when the job is done I can convert the Proforma into an actual invoice.
SUNNY says
Our company develop the synchronizaion between Blinksale and MS Outlook. We think it would be useful - because Blinksale is really good application, that has the sync only with BaseCamp. So we decided that it should also have sync with Outlook (to import and invoice clients and customers from MS Outlook without having to re-enter their data into Blinksale).
I hope that it would be useful for you.
To learn more, please follow the link: http://www.grabsync.com/blinksale/
or you can Email me personally: venera@grabsync.com
Thank you
SUNNY says
Our company develop the synchronizaion between Blinksale and MS Outlook. We think it would be useful - because Blinksale is really good application, that has the sync only with BaseCamp. So we decided that it should also have sync with Outlook (to import and invoice clients and customers from MS Outlook without having to re-enter their data into Blinksale).
I hope that it would be useful for you.
To learn more, please follow the link: http://www.grabsync.com/blinksale/
or you can Email me personally: venera@grabsync.com
Thank you
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