software needed for customer billing

[warfish]

I need a piece of software that i can setup to bill my customers each month without having to generate invoices IE Quickbooks. I bill the same customers the same amount each month and would like to avoid hours of sitting in front of this machine generating invoices. Is there any kind of database I could build with customer information then create some sort of script to bill each of those people based upon the criteria in my database.

[Rhino302]

You can do that in Access pretty easily. You can make a report your bill.

[warfish]

Thanks for the suggestion of MS Access I will have to check that out. I have never fooled around with it so now is as good a time as any.

[Rhino302]

Yeah, if you need help with it, post here, or get a book. If you've got any closeout bookstores, (which sell books a year old or more) like here, you can get Office/Access 2000 books for like $5. They tell you a lot of stuff that the help Menus in Access make it difficult to figure out.

[qball]

This may be stupid, but:

Since:

I bill the same customers the same amount each month


You could actually write an excel macro to do this. dependent upon how you do invoicing now, how many custs and how many amounts...

Macro would:

Take a invoice_template.xls
read in custs and amounts (accomplished many ways)
loop through each cust setting date and amount
print/email/whatever
save invoice

Like I said, kinda silly, but would work...

[warfish]

thanks for the idea. I will see if any of the templates are suitable for my needs.