SimplifyThis did not have a way to send out automated annual invoices.  I had been skirting away from this in the past, hiding under the illusion that people can use a frequency of 365 days to approximate annual cycles.  Apparently, this was not good enough for many of you.  Frankly, I was surprised to see the number of annual auto-billing cycles.  I never thought that this would be the case.

Upon insistance from users, we have added an explicit annual frequency option in auto-bill.  This feature is deployed as of now.  So all the hosting service providers who bill their clients annualy for domain name, or annual set-up fee can now use this option.  As always, please do let me know if you have any feedback.

I have also received request for explicit quarterly auto-bill frequency.  I was tempted to add it while we were enabling annual cycle, but then realized that adding one more option would warrant an interface change.  Having too many options with radio-buttons to choose from would not be a good idea.  So, we’ll keep this for the next round.

Thanks to many suggestions from SimplifyThis users, we have a new fresh look for the invoices and estimates.  You’ll notice that there is more “breathing room” between fields and their labels, notes stand out clearly, and your business address goes right next to your logo at the top of the invoice.

I’m sure this new look will spark some discussions.  Please do provide your feedback. Let us know whether you like it or not, or write to us if you have any suggestion to improve the layout further.