Create invoices and bill your customers with Invoicera
if you are running a full fledged business, especially if it is online, you will realise the importance of good customer management. Besides providing support to your customers, it is also extremely essential for good business sense to create an automated solution to invoice and bill them.
Invoicera is a powerful tool that offers you tonnes of features to create invoices, track expenses and bill clients using multiple payment gateways and multiple currencies. You have several sets of plans including a free one that can get you started down the path of online billing.
The free plan offers you some very basic features including just 3 clients and 1 recurring profile. However, you are allowed unlimited invoices, so if you are running a very small company this plan is ideal for you. The next level plan offers you 15 clients, 15 recurring profiles and more importantly auto-billing (3 nos.). However this comes at $9.95/month, so if you’re churning out a lot more than that (and you should be), then this is a perfect solution for you.
Key features:
- More than 20 Payment Gateways
- Multiple Language Support
- Scheduling of Invoices
- API Support
- Late-Fee Module
- Multiple Currency Support
- Template Customization Module
- Send Invoices/Estimates as PDF
- SSL encryption, Data Security
- Data Backups
- Extensive Reports
- Access of Elegant Templates
You can easily upgrade or downgrade across the various plans even during the month. Invoicera also offers you a 30 day money back guarantee, so if you’re not satisfied you can choose to get your money back.
If you are already using Invoicera, do give us your feedback on the same. Alternatively, are you using another billing system. Tell us about it.
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Match Made in Heaven
Small business owners have special considerations when looking for a company to host their website. Is the web host dependable? Are their prices affordable? Do they offer sufficient support for small businesses? Can they reliably support a shopping cart or other tools needed to communicate with clients? Perhaps most importantly, are they adaptable enough to handle changing business needs and the growth of the business? What if the need develops for multiple domain web hosting?
There are many web hosting companies offering services to small businesses, but each web host is unique in not only the services but the level of service provided to the business owner. Since most small businesses do not have in-house web designers or computer programmers, it is important to look at what services a potential web host can offer and how easy they can make it for a small business owner who may not be internet savvy. Let’s take a look at a few of the more popular web hosting companies and how they can help a small business owner.
iPage
Small business owners will find iPage offers affordable hosting with a variety of services. They offer two different drag and drop website builders that make it easy to design your own site. Clients are allowed unlimited domains, unlimited bandwidth and unlimited disk space. Their service includes a free online store with a choice of shopping carts to best suit your business needs.
FatCow
FatCow targets inexperienced webmasters with an inexpensive plan that provides unlimited bandwidth, traffic and domain names as well as courteous customer service. They offer a single drag and drop site builder with a shopping cart available. While they may offer fewer options, their goal is to provide the simplest tools for new users.
Just Host
Just Host offers an easy-to-use interface through the popular cPanel control panel and an affordable price on its hosting service. They include ad credits for Google, Yahoo and MySpace to get you started when you sign up. They offer a 100% money back guarantee on the unused part of your hosting contract should you decide to drop the service. They also promise customer service calls will be answered quickly by representatives who speak English and will have no problem understanding you or speaking so that you can understand them.
InMotion
InMotion Hosting strives to offer reliable hosting to businesses that are growing, working to adapt to those businesses’ changing needs. While their basic service limits business owners to only two domain names, they guarantee 99.9% uptime and a service plan designed specifically for business websites, built on business class hardware up to 50% faster than other providers. They also provide data back-up for all clients to protect your website from data loss.
BlueHost
Business owners needing instant set-up will find BlueHost ready and able to assist them. They offer the intuitive cPanel control panel as well as many professional level tools for building a site. Their easy to use site builder includes many templates that make designing a site a snap! But BlueHost’s biggest asset is their virtual private server (VPS) protection that allows each site to run as if on its own dedicated server should any problems affect other sites on the shared server that might slow down the server’s overall performance. With their proprietary VPS protection, your share of server performance is guaranteed.
HostGator
HostGator understands that small businesses need a hosting plan that addresses the complex needs that running a small company entails. HostGator has the largest number of customers of any web hosting site with over 700,000 domain owners running over 5 million websites. Along with unlimited disk space and bandwidth, HostGator also provides scripts for forums, photo galleries and membership sign-up that can be beneficial to many businesses.
Since a small business will not be able to afford the time, maintenance and cost required to run a dedicated server, shared hosting is an attractive option. But reliability and dependability of the hosting service is paramount, as is affordability and the support structure they provide. Consideration must also be given to future needs of the company and whether the web host can provide for those needs. It is an important decision that can affect success or failure of the business.
This is a guest post by Ellee Parker, who writes web hosting reviews and guides for Web Host Gear.
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Protect your blog from spam with Confident CAPTCHA
So you’re worried about spam bots attacking your site. You must have heard of CAPTCHA. Maybe even implemented it with the hope that it will stop those spam bots.
Unfortunately, this isn’t the fool proof solution, because spam bots are known to break these. So, CAPTCHAs tend to become even more confusion, with distorted lines and text and more.
Confident CAPTCHA™ is an easy to use, clickable picture CAPTCHA that stops spam and bots on websites by asking visitors to simply click on images, rather than decipher the warped and distorted text used in most CAPTCHA tests.
Confident CAPTCHA stops spam and bots on blogs, Web forms, new account registrations, ticketing websites, social networking sites and more. Our image-based CAPTCHA alternative:
- Eliminates the user frustration associated with ugly text CAPTCHAs
- Reduces website abandonment
- Increases online interactions
- Stops spam,fraudulent registrations and other threats caused by bots
- Improves the user experience, resulting in repeat visits
Confident CAPTCHA is available for PHP, ASP.NET, Python, WordPress, Drupal and Joomla.
It does not take up space on the Web page. Only a small button sits on the Web page and the CAPTCHA image grid appears as a fly-out or a light box when a user clicks the button.
Web developers and website owners can get Confident CAPTCHA for free by registering for an account here, which provides access to the API.
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Create a mobile version of your WordPress blog with MobStac
The mobile is taking over the world. Today, almost all mobile phones come equipped with browsers, not to forget the whole host of mobile devices out there. While most mobile browsers can easily support your normal blog theme, you might want to create a better experience for users by offering a custom look for mobile devices.
You can manually do this or use one of the many services that allow you to do so. MobStac is one such powerful service that helps you get the job done.
Creating your mobile blog is extremely easy and you’ll be done in 20-30 minutes.
Simply enter the site URL and let MobStac populate the fields. You can choose to upload a logo or just use your Twitter ID. I tested using the Techtites Twitter ID (the screenshot below shows me using the upload option).
This is the easy step. The next step is to install the WordPress plugin and enter the API key and you’re good to go. The mobile plugin ensures that if someone visits your blog on their mobile browser, they will be redirected to the mobile version of the site above.
If you have your own domain (you do, don’t you?), an additional (and optional) step is to create a CNAME entry to create a domain for your mobile site. This ensures complete sync and no third party URLs.
MobStac is currently available as an open beta, so you may see a few bugs on and off. The site still lacks decent documentation, which I am sure is WIP.
If you’re running your WordPress blog, do check out MobStac. If you’re on your mobile browser, check out our blog at http://m.techtites.com/
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Easily hunt for available domains from MakeWords.com
Ever try to hunt for a domain name but are clueless as to which one to purchase. Or maybe you’re just hunting for some random suggestions.
If you’re stuck, MakeWords.com can definitely help clear the confusion.
MakeWords.com offers you several different methods to hunt for domains.
The default is the Domain Name Generator. This will allow you search for random names. You can select the maximum and minimum length of the domain and it will give you list of available and unavailable domains. I wish there was a way of only viewing the available domains.
You can select from a whole collection of registrars and the site will generate the links that allow you to begin the registration process directly!
Keyword Domains is the second method of hunting. Enter your keyword and MakeWords will give you a list of domains that contain this keyword. Here you can filter to view only the available domains.
You can search through a wide variety of themes including countries, banking, common prefixes and suffixes.
The third method is Dictionary. Enter a dictionary word and receive a list of related words. Finding available domains from common words is impossible, since most of these are already registered.
Seed Keyword Spinner mode looks for word relations and rearranges the word parts to come up with random names.
You can also perform a bulk search or custom words.
If you’ve finalized on the domain you’ve wished to register, look no further than our sister concern WebberZone Domains. There are some exciting promos running.
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