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Thanks for trying it out!

I'll be the first to admin that the performance is currently not quite as good as a plain HTML/JS/CSS webapp, however as a small team being able to compile one codebase to every platform is game changing.

The performance issues of Flutter Web are more apparent on mobile however users can install our native mobile app which performs much betters.

Thanks for trying it out!

It looks like you tried refreshing the data in the app to resolve the problem, does refreshing page in the browser help?

Not sure why I'm not seeing the same problem on my iPhone. If you use the app and would like me to help debug it feel free to email us at contact@invoiceninja.com.

Hi, I'm the lead developer.

We've spent the past 5 months rebuilding our mobile apps with Google Flutter enabling us to replace our two codebases (ObjectiveC and Java) with a single codebase.

Here's the code on GitHub:

https://github.com/invoiceninja/flutter-mobile

I've also written about some of our experiences on my blog:

https://hillelcoren.com/2018/05/18/flutter-is-darts-killer-a...

If you have any questions let me know.

Another big fan of Flutter here...

We're using it to replace our native iOS and Android apps enabling us to have a single code base. This is critical for a team as small as ours (2 devs covering web and mobile).

I can't sing its praises strongly enough, you can check out the code for our app here:

https://github.com/invoiceninja/flutter-mobile/

Edit: grammar is hard

Invoice Ninja 12 years ago

Many people have asked how this will be sustainable if it's free?

Enabling a ‘Pay Now’ button on an invoice requires configuring a payment provider. PayPal can be good when starting out but as you grow other providers may make more sense.

We will have affiliate links to these providers and will earn a small commission if people sign up.

The most expensive part of this sort of app is the development costs and I work for free. If we were hosting pictures or videos server costs could be an issue but invoice data is just text. I also have an amazing partner who is backing any financial concerns.

Invoice Ninja 12 years ago

This is good feedback, thank you!

Expect an "About the Invoice Ninja Team" page soon.

For now... here's a link to my blog http://hillelcoren.com/. I've been building apps for a while now and stand 100% behind anything I create. This project is team affair though.

I realize trust is earned and I hope we're given the chance to earn it.

Edit: added 'to' (grammar mistakes kill me)

Invoice Ninja 12 years ago

Thank you for the excellent feedback.

German, Italian and French developers have offered to help translate the site and we're working on redoing how line item taxes are grouped. You can track these issues on GitHub:

https://github.com/hillelcoren/invoice-ninja/issues/31 https://github.com/hillelcoren/invoice-ninja/issues/29

There's definitely still work remaining but the more eyes we get looking at it the better we can make it. Please join our Facebook page and keep talking to us.

https://www.facebook.com/invoiceninja

Thanks again!!

Invoice Ninja 12 years ago

You can set the currency for the client which will update the invoice. Hope this works for you.

Invoice Ninja 12 years ago

Hi, thanks for all the great feedback (I'm the developer of the app).

@matthewmacleod That's a good suggestion, we'll work on it.

@lnanek2 Yes, but we're free :)

@ville, Our first concern is to perfect the application, making money will come later.

@peteacc. I’ll need to look into it, thanks for catching it.

@photoGrant If you set the payment terms for the client it will automatically set the due date for you.