Needless to say, the digital world is in your hands nowadays. Everything you need regarding communication and related subjects can be implemented in your personal mobile phone. Working on your administration is also no longer an activity you can only perform at home or at the office.

The EEI Platform selected a number of e-invoicing applications for your iPhone or  iPad to loosen your administration from time and place.
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Invoice2go
Invoice2go is the fast and easy way to invoice, estimate, bill, collect and report. With 10 built-in invoice styles to choose from it’s actually fun going through and choosing your template and designing your invoice. Even better if you install the Desktop Version all these templates can be customized to your own needs. Add logo’s, move fields you can even create your very own business forms. No other solution available gives you this flexibility.

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Time Master + Billing + Quickbooks
The best, most powerful, comprehensive, easy to use time keeping app on the Apple Store is now even better. Time Master has the highest average rating of all the time management apps. And the other apps don’t come close to our new optional billing module. Our invoices are totally professional. Please click on the “On-Core website” link below to view Video demos of the program in action.
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GetPaid! – PDF Invoice & Time Sheet
GetPaid! tracks time and generates instant PDF invoices and time sheets. The beautiful and intuitive user interface is designed to log your time and to create professional invoices or time sheets in a snap. Getpaid! is a must have app for mobile professionals, business owners, temps, freelancers, contractors, consultants, lawyers or anyone who needs to track their time to get paid. Time is money, don’t miss another minute! You’ve worked hard, now it’s time to GetPaid!

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Ring It Up Pro: Invoicing & Checkout
RedLaser has joined forces with Ring it Up to bring to you the most comprehensive Point of Sale application available for the iPhone today. Ring up your sales, expenses & accept payment, right on your iPhone. Bookkeeping no longer has to be a chore.

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Invoice Maker
Finally, after much demand, the perfect tool for your business on the iPhone! Using this app you will be able to send state-of-the-art invoices via e-mail to your clients. You can create invoices for products AND services.

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Billings Touch
Billings Touch takes the Apple Design Award winning time tracking and invoicing experience from the Mac and puts it in your pocket. Billings Touch works as a standalone application – or as a companion to Billings on the Mac.

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GetPaid! Lite – PDF Invoice & TimeSheet
GetPaid! tracks time and generates instant PDF invoices and time sheets. The beautiful and intuitive user interface is designed to log your time and to create invoices or time sheets in a snap. Getpaid! is a must have app for mobile professionals, business owners, temps, freelancers, contractors, consultants, lawyers or anyone who needs to track their time to get paid. Time is money, don’t miss another minute! You’ve worked hard, now it’s time to GetPaid!

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Omni Invoice
Why not try before you buy. Please download our free version, Omni Invoice Lite.With Omni Invoice you can now create quotes and invoices anywhere.

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Invoice2go Lite
Invoice2go is the fast and easy way to invoice, estimate, bill, collect and report. With 10 built-in invoice styles to choose from it’s actually fun going through and choosing your template and designing your invoice. Even better if you install the Desktop Version all these templates can be customized to your own needs. Add logo’s, move fields you can even create your very own business forms. No other solution available gives you this flexibility.

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Omni Invoice Lite
With Omni Invoice Lite you can now create quotes and invoices anywhere. No more downtime spent writing up quotes back at the office, or catching up with your backlog of invoicing causing delays in payment.

Omni Invoice Lite enables you to create quotes whilst on site, delivering them by email in seconds. Generating invoices from your quotes is an equally simple process.

Quick and intuitive to use, simply populate Omni Invoice Lite with your products, services and company details, then start billing.
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Invoice Now
Run your business from your iPhone. Missing Piece is proud to bring you Invoice Now.
Invoice Now is the invoice only version of Taking Care of Business. It creates secure PDF invoices in a professional format which can be emailed directly from your iPhone. Copy or blind copy the invoices back to your office.

Invoice Now includes an optional invoice calculator for building up more complex invoices. It also builds a history database as you use it – no need to spend hours entering your inventory before you use the application.
Record payments against your invoices. View a record of all your receivables grouped according to due date. Resend invoices as reminders.

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Quick Invoice
If you freelance or own a business, you have probably faced the tedious task of creating and sending invoices while away from the office. Now, with Quick Invoice that nightmare is over. Quick Invoice allows you to easily generate and send invoices. You only have to choose your customer, the service, tax, numbering and pay option and, in less than 5 seconds, your customer will be able to receive the invoice via e-mail..
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Smart Invoice
The Smart Invoice iPhone application allows you to remotely use Smart Invoice to:
• Create new clients, projects, and tasks on the fly
• Track time by client, project and task
• Create and categorize expenses
• Create invoices
• Receive credit card payments for invoices you create on your iPhone (currently works with Authorize.net)—this functionality essentially turns your iPhone into a mobile credit card processor.

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Our Bills
Bills are constantly coming and money is tight especially during these hard economic times. That is why it is so important to keep track of our everyday expenses. We have created this great new application that will let you keep track of your bills in a convenient, quick and organized way so that you always have this information at hand for your convenience. Unlike similar applications here you will be able to add your partner’s and combined bills, as well as categorized them.

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Easy Biller
Do you live your work day in six minute increments? Do you sometimes lose track of time when you’re on the go? Easy Biller is here to help. What does this app do?

- Calculates billable hours with a variety of tools including a timer and start/stop time converter
- Tracks your daily, weekly and monthly and year billable hours totals
- Organizes time entries by client and case names and numbers: enter as much or little detail as you prefer
- Allows you to enter detailed descriptions of your time
- Produces an easy-to-read, emailable table of your time entries at the end of each day
-Also includes a handy converter for figuring out hours without adding new entry to database.

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Simplybill
Simplybill provides a great invoicing solution in your pocket. Designed to run along-side the Simplybill online invoicing service, the Simplybill App provides all the functions you need on the go.

In order to use the Simplybill iPhone App, you need a Simplybill account – if you don’t have one, sign up for a free-trial at www.simplybill.com. Plans cost from $5/month.

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Source: www.iphoneapplicationlist.com

This article is from E-invoicing Platform. Read the original post at: Flashback: E-invoicing applications for your iPhone.

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Examining the AP departments’ performance in terms of how many invoices each AP employee processed annually, the study measured the gulf between best and worst performing AP functions to determine what defines AP invoice processing excellence. The findings revealed a significant disparity between those accounts payable departments that are still relying on paper-based processes and those organizations that have adopted automated processes and e-invoicing.
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47 percent of the organizations surveyed still receive more than half of their invoices in paper form which leads to increased errors, delays and costs resulting from manual processes. According to the study, “the worst-performing AP departments don’t seem to realize how far they lag behind their peers. In contrast, 60% of those in the top quartile saw further scope for improvement. The least-efficient departments can’t move forward until they realize just how far they lag behind their peers.”

Combining invoice automation with e-invoicing and eProcurement within organizations was shown by the research to double the chances of achieving AP invoice processing excellence and maximize straight-through processing (STP).  Eliminating human intervention in the invoice handling and approval process cuts manual data capture tasks such as document scanning and data entry, thus not only increasing the speed of the process but also providing cost-savings within the business. By implementing purchase-to-pay solutions, organizations can gain control and visibility over finance and procurement processes and improve overall process performance.

The integration of e-invoicing and eProcurement works in parallel with the need to centralize responsibility in accounts payable departments to enable process improvements. Finance managers with pan-division responsibility were found to be more able to invest in better technology and processes than their colleagues operating at BU level. Persuading suppliers to send invoices electronically and offering them incentives for e-invoicing was also found to correlate strongly with excellent performance.  18 percent of the companies surveyed were processing more than 40,000 invoices annually per full time equivalent (FTE), while 25 percent of respondents needed one FTE for every 4,000 invoices or less per year.

“Organizations are paying dearly for poorly performing processes, with each invoice costing more than USD 50 to process at the organizations in the poorest performing quartile,” said Steve Muddiman, SVP at Basware. “We believe these study findings reflect the evidence we have seen in our own customer base. Integrated purchase-to-pay process combined with best practices such departmental collaboration between finance and procurement enable organizations to transform their AP departments to top performers, delivering cost savings and ultimately boosting the bottom line.”

To download the study, please visit: www.basware.com/forrester-report

¹“Finance And Procurement Work Together To Achieve AP Invoice Processing Excellence. AP Departments That Combine Technology With Best Practices Are Most Likely To Get Top Results”, A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Basware, April 2010.
²In this study, Forrester conducted an online survey of 100 large organizations in the US, the UK and France.

About Basware
Basware is the global leader in purchase-to-pay solutions with more than 1,500 customers and 1,000,000 users in over 50 countries around the world. With Basware, organizations can reduce the cost of buying and paying for goods and services and gain visibility and control of their entire spending process by automating manual processes, from sourcing, contract management,  purchasing and supplier collaboration to invoice automation.  Basware solutions and services enable substantial cost reductions across businesses and deliver value by providing compliance and control, as well as fast return on investment. The solutions are distributed and implemented, either on site or as a service, in Europe, the US, and Asia-Pacific through an extensive network of Basware offices and business partners. www.basware.com

This article is from E-invoicing Platform. Read the original post at: Combining e-invoicing and eProcurement doubles chances for AP invoice processing excellence.

Together with its sister party CSU and its liberal coalition partner (FDP), the government parties have constructed a 133 page coalition contract, which, in the chapter “Information and Media Society” declares intentions to expand eGovernment by increasing electronic communication options for both citizens and enterprises.

It says, “The German government’s technical communication requires concentration, standardisation, increased efficiency and a pooling of existing resources. Therefore we want to strengthen the government’s representative for Information Technology. We are examining how the government’s IT can in the future orient itself on open standards, taking open source solutions into account.”

The German online portal Linux Community asked the government’s IT representative what this statement would mean in practice. The speaker for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Daniela-Alexandra Pietsch, explained it was too early to go into detail, but emphasised that, “only through the implementation of open standards and license-free standards will today’s and future highly complex IT systems be manageable”.

Pietsch expects that one of the main issues would be the development of a XML standard for data exchange inside and outside government bodies. She also called attention to XDOMEA, the first result of current efforts. XDOMEA is an XML format for the exchange of electronic documents, currently available in version 2.0. On the whole, the German government wants to set up a planning council to raise IT awareness. The council, Pietsch told Linux Community, will determine interoperability and security standards in the near future.

Source: www.epractice.eu

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Based on a Commission proposal from 2007 the European Union set itself an ambitious target of cutting administrative costs imposed by EU legislation by 25% by 2012.
Today the Commission publishes an overview of progress to date and sectoral reduction plans for 13 priority areas.

In total, the measures proposed by the Commission and under preparation would enable businesses to save around € 40.4 bn from € 123.8 bn on red-tape stemming from 72 EU texts and the measures that transpose and implement them in the Member States. Reduction measures put in place by the Commission or proposed by the Commission and already adopted could bring a reduction of EUR 7.6 billion.

Measures proposed by the Commission and pending adoption by the European Parliament and the Council would add EUR 30.7 billion to that amount. Preparatory work on further reduction could lead to the presentation of additional measures bringing further reduction of at least EUR 2.1 billion. Now it is in the hands of the co legislators to ensure that businesses can feel the difference on the ground.

European Commission President José Manuel Barroso said: “The Commission is fully on track to deliver on its goals to reduce red tape for businesses.   B usinesses are already set to save €7.6 billion a year. That will become about €40 billion if Member States and the European Parliament back our proposals in full. But better regulation is a job that never ends. It is not just about changing bad rules, but making good rules work better, using new technologies and new innovation. Further streamlining European and national regulation – without compromising on protecting the public – will be a key to the next Commission’s drive to promote sustainable economic recovery.”

Vice-President Günter Verheugen, Commissioner for Enterprise and Industry, said: “Today’s package is the result of policy commitment and hard work to abolish unnecessary bureaucracy. The Commission has done everything in its power to achieve the 25% target by 2012. I invite the European Parliament and Member States to adopt all of our remaining proposals to make them fully effective for the European economy as soon as possible. It does not cost anything but would mean a boost of around 30.7 bn € for our enterprises, and especially for Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs).”

The EU administrative burden reduction programme will deliver an overall reduction of 40.4 bn € (33% of the estimated burden). It would come into effect, if all Commission proposals find the agreement of the Council and the Parliament. This is particularly the case for two major proposals, made at the beginning of this year, one in the field of VAT aimed at facilitating e-invoicing (worth € 18 bn), the other in the field of company law, exempting micro-entities from accounting obligations (worth € 7 bn).

The baseline measurement exercise has been completed and confirmed the choice made by the Commission to concentrate on the selected priority areas. This measurement exercise has also confirmed the vulnerability of SMEs to administrative burdens. Stakeholders’ involvement and the High Level Group, chaired by E. Stoiber were instrumental in evaluating the feasibility and in the identifying further reductions measures, which may be part of new initiatives for reducing administrative burdens during the next Commission.

Moreover, all Member States have now set ambitious national targets, as agreed in 2007.

The Commission will continue to ensure through its impact assessment system that requirements introduced by new policies are kept to the minimum.

The “Action Programme for Reducing Administrative Burdens in the EU” is an essential part of the Commission’s overall Better Regulation Agenda. The aim of this policy is to promote competitiveness, growth and jobs. Reducing regulatory costs imposed on enterprises is also in keeping with the Small Business Act and its “think small first” principle and is one of the key areas for action in the European Economic Recovery Plan.

Today’s announcement confirms that the reduction of administrative burden is a continuous exercise in view of achieving a real impact in every sector on the ground.

This article is from E-invoicing Platform. Read the original post at: Proposals European Commission could reduce administrative burden.

The initiative is intended to bring the citizens of rural areas closer to all three levels of Government in Spain by enabling them to benefit from the approximately 900 central, regional and local public services available on the eGovernment portal ‘060.es’.

Named ‘Telecentres training and revitalization plan’, the €2 million project relies on the network of Red.es Telecentres; those free Internet access points located across Spain’s rural areas. Over 500 Telecentres trainers will, within 1 500 Telecentres, instruct the population on how to perform operations via the eGovernment portal and to obtain information by electronic means.

In this light, printed and audiovisual information material have been designed in a clear language, with practical examples of the citizens’ daily life aspects, so as to demonstrate the advantages of the portal. In addition, distinct multimedia information packs are being conceived following the specific profiles (youngsters, women, seniors, immigrants, etc) structuring the portal. This material will include information on each target group’s most used services, as well as on the use of the national eID card.

Miguel Sebastián, Minister for Industry, Tourism and Trade stressed that following the successful deployment of Telecentres, his department will concentrate its efforts on the “valorisation of the infrastructure” by adding “services associated to the Telecentres”. He informed that the launch of the ‘Telecentres training and revitalisation plan’ is the first measure in this direction, and that it is based on the Training axis of the Avanza2 programme.

The plan has already started being implemented in 304 Telecentres in the regions of Andalusia and Asturias, with 150 dedicated trainers involved. Later on, the plan will focus on the regions of Castile and León, the Canary Islands and Murcia, and then on Galicia, the Valencian Community, Castile-La Mancha and Extremadura.

Source: Epractice.eu

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• Public Administrations that are setting up new eProcurement solutions and are interested in capitalising on other experiences and in receiving information on available guidelines and tools
• IT companies in charge of the development of eProcurement solutions
• Organisations responsible for existing eProcurement solutions that need to be aligned with the European legislation

A “Call for presentations” is open until the 5th December 2008. Please contact the eProcurement Forum by e-mail  (eprocurement@epractice.eu) if you need further information on the event, or if you are interested in sharing your experience and in presenting a case.

Registration is possible via the ePractice website at http://www.epractice.eu/workshop/37.  Please note that attendance is free and open to everyone who has been registered on the ePractice portal. Since the available places are limited, interested experts are invited to register soon. 

This article is from E-invoicing Platform. Read the original post at: EC workshop eProcurement solutions in Vienna.

The survey found that despite the multiple advantages electronic invoicing offers for business owners – cost-effectiveness and more efficient resource administration among them – 40 percent of European companies currently show no direct interest in performing the switch from paper-based to electronic invoices mainly because their initiatives are hampered by pre-existing regulatory compliance requirements to various country-specific e-invoicing systems. Moreover, over half of the European companies which have subsidiaries and operate their businesses in six or more countries worldwide admit concern regarding the implementation of an e-invoicing system, mainly due to problems arising from the need to comply with multiple national e-invoicing legislations across the globe. Also, a quarter of the survey participants admitted that VAT compliance and auditing requirements – which are an integral part of the invoicing process – are also a problem in the context of dealing with different financial legislations in various countries, each with its own requirements and compliance standards. Therefore, although the benefits of implementing an electronic invoicing system are evident to European business owners, the survey conducted by independent research company Vanson Bourne shows that in actuality, e-invoicing implementation is undermined by its dependency on country-specific compliance regulations and by national VAT and tax compliance requirements.

Source: Sterling Commerce

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OBJECTIVES of the workshop

- Discuss and look at how eGovernment can be an effective tool in the reduction of administrative burden for public administration, business and citizens.
- Inform about the present activities of the European Commission by speakers from DG Enterprise and DG Infosoc including the latest call within the ICT PSP Work Programme 2008;
- Provide an up to date overview of the latest activities of the SCM Network;
- Present good practice cases from Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany, among others, showing how administrative burden is being reduced for business, citizens and government;
- Provide participants an opportunity to raise questions and discuss these good practice examples with the case presenters in three parallel working groups.

More information to be found on the website of ePractice.eu.

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Encuentro de Expertos en Factura Electrónica, XBRL y Contratación Pública

The Encounter of Experts in Electronic Invoice, XBRL and Public Hiring, organized by the Association of Industrialists of Technologies of the Information and Communications of Andalusia, ETICOM and SANDETEL, public company of the Council of Innovation, Science and Company of the Andalusian Government, is the main event on Electronic Invoice, XBRL and and-administration organized to date in Andalusia.
 
With the participation of some of the best international and national experts in these fields, pertaining to organizations like the European Union, the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce of Spain’s Govenment, the Tributary Agency, the Chamber of Commerce of Andalusia and RED.ES and FUNDETEC, the event has the objective of being a key event when it comes to electronic interchange of invoices, documents and financial statements, for both companies and public entities.
 
This new panorama appears to be a great opportunity of business for the companies of the sector TIC, besides to become for the administrations and public companies an instrument that remarkably improves the productivity and the quality of the service of attention to citizens and companies.

The entering in to force of the obligatory terms for companies to send electronic invoice to the Administration that will begin first at the beginning of 2009 for large companies. In November of 2010 it will extended to the entire private sector. It will also including hiring processes, administrative conflicts, tenders, VAT, et cetera. 
 
This first encounter of Experts in Electronic Invoice, XBRL and Public Hiring, will be held on 6 November 2008 in the Centro de Convenciones del Hotel Barceló of Seville. The event is invaluable for companies and public administrations.

Registration and ore information on www.efacturameeting.com

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The bank is implementing Oracle’s Distributed Document Capture technology to facilitate the electronic capture and management of a broad range of critical business documents including loan applications, financial statements, invoices and checks.

Oracle says the Web-based system provides scalability, easy administration, support for multiple input devices. The bank will benefit from faster document cycle times, improved regulatory compliance and records management, more automated business processes and better access to information.

Commenting on the implementation, Trevor Salt, manager, distributed document capture, JPMorgan Chase, says: “Oracle Distributed Document Capture is designed to help us increase efficiency and gain tighter control over records for compliance requirements.”

The system will initially will be rolled out to more than 750 US users at JPMorgan Chase. By the end of 2009, more than 3000 employees across the US, Europe, Africa and Asia are expected to be using the software.

Source: Sibos Online

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