A feature bloat-free app to help you manage your repeating customer invoice data, and automatically create and send invoices via WhatsApp at the click of a button. Everything is done locally, an internet connection is required only to send the invoice via WhatsApp!
As a solo entrepreneur, my time and monetary resources are limited. Creating invoices manually one-by-one is tedious and takes up too much time, and most of the invoicing solutions available out there are too expensive for too many features that I do not need. I just want to send invoices easily via WhatsApp with the click of a button.
- Store templates of each customer that will be reused when creating an invoice for that customer
- One-click sending of invoices after adjusting the line item data
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- Electron
- SvelteKit
- SQLite
- Puppeteer
Cost was a primary factor in choosing the technologies to solve this problem. To send a PDF via WhatsApp in a cost-free manner, we would ideally do everything locally without the need to utilise any services provided by other companies. Thus I chose to use Electron for the UI and and SQLite to manage the data.
The idea behind this app is to generate the PDF locally using puppeteer, so that we have flexibility to change the invoice template easily with HTML and CSS, then send it again using puppeteer, this time with a library called whatsapp-web.js.
livedevis a mode to use the app as a live app to send real messages while still in dev