[Jah Electric]

Do any of you guys print invoices from your van or do you COD and print and mail an invoice later?
If you use an ipad and printer in truck does a laser printer work better than an inkjet?

 

[HARRY304E]

Do any of you guys print invoices from your van or do you COD and print and mail an invoice later?
If you use an ipad and printer in truck does a laser printer work better than an inkjet?

I use an iPad and just email them,I keep a few paper invoices just in case but never really use them anymore.

 

[sparky402]

I use an iPad and just email them,I keep a few paper invoices just in case but never really use them anymore.

What programdo you use for invoicing.

 

[Mshow1323]

What programdo you use for invoicing.

See the signature :no: totally paperless

 

[chicken steve]

I use a standard paper form & an ink pen

sometimes in the winter, if the pens freeze, i use a pencil

we're always riding the edge of the new wave in VT!


~CS~

 

[Switched]

I use a standard paper form & an ink pen

sometimes in the winter, if the pens freeze, i use a pencil

we're always riding the edge of the new wave in VT!


~CS~

That's one of the funniest things I think you have said! BTW, sunny and 75 at the beach here in Cali.....

 

[electricguy]

I like walking in with a Printed Work order sometimes with some of the companies we do work for I need to print a work order while mobile. i have a HP office jet mobile printer

 

[FrunkSlammer]

I use Freshbooks for all my estimates and invoices and time tracking, as well as expenses.. it's sweet software. So far everyone has been fine with emails, it seems like everyone who would call an electrician has signed up for email.

The day some amish farmer demands a printed invoice on the spot is the day I'll start shopping for a printer, or the day I stop doing work for amish farmers.

 

[macmikeman]

Before Ipads and email got so easy, I was totin this very laptop around in the van all day long, and I had me a Cannon Pixma brick sized . jet printer set up running off of an inverter. Worked.

 

[FrunkSlammer]

Grandpa, what's a laptop? :001_huh:

 

[HARRY304E]

I use a standard paper form & an ink pen

sometimes in the winter, if the pens freeze, i use a pencil

we're always riding the edge of the new wave in VT!


~CS~

:laughing::laughing:

 

[glen1971]

Email it

I either email them a copy of the unpriced one or copy it to a stick and let them take it then and there, if they need it for labour tracking.. Or (usually) I email them copies of the priced ones and they email back the signed and coded copies for invoicing.
When we first went to electronic, they wanted me to carry a printer and I said "Why?" and explained what I was going to do... I don't think there are 5% of our guys that carry a printer on a daily basis in their truck..

 

[99cents]

I use a standard paper form & an ink pen

sometimes in the winter, if the pens freeze, i use a pencil

we're always riding the edge of the new wave in VT!


~CS~

That's what cigarette lighters were for, to warm up ballpoint pens. My old truck still has one .

 

[99cents]

Grandpa, what's a laptop? :001_huh:

It's where grandma dances.

 

[ProLectric]

We still use handwritten invoices, but have been kicking around the idea of electronic.

 

[Magnettica]

It's funny because I occasionally work with an old timer that does kitchen cabinets and he just got an iPhone and doesn't know how to use it. Says, "I don't text and never will." Then he goes on and tells me how he's moving forward and into the future by getting a printer in the van. I'm like, "you have an iPhone, you don't need any of that anymore. Let me show you some things..."

 

[FrunkSlammer]

An iPhone is my single greatest and most critical business tool.

 

[captkirk]

Yea I am thinking of going electronic for daily stuff...

Anyone use anything by intuit for this...?

 

[oksparky]

I use Quickbooks for my book keeping and I use hand written invoices. I invoice on the job take a picture and send it to my bookkeeper with my phone.

 

[sparky402]

Where in the van do you keep yourprinter