Chapter 2. FEATURES

A picture or in this case a website is worth a thousand words. So before I dig into the features of phpaga, I'd like you to take a minute and check out the live demo with user:demo pass:demo. It already has lots of companies, projects, invoices, quotations, and resources so you can see all the graphs and reports in action.

PHPAGA is a billing application that can keep track of your personal or small business finances, and is built on the LAMP or LAPP framework. What else can we say. Well it is international, handling billing for Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, and the USA. And that's just with the builtin plugins. If you don't find what you need, you can write your own plugin quite easily. It can handle invoices based on hourly work, or named items with a cost. It can handle projects with multiple resources each with different hourly rates. And if you use those folks on another project, they can have different rates on those projects too. It can produce spectacular PDF quotations and invoices for your clients at week-end, month-end, or however you like. Furthermore it has extensive reports such as paid and unpaid invoices (turnover), summary reports for people, projects, and categories. The main page or dashboard also includes a nice 52 week graph of weekly manhours work. All this information and presentation helps you begin to get a bigger picture of your business, and finances to help you run your business better.

  1. Major Features

    1. custom user logins

    2. persons (project resources) without logins

    3. default and per-project customizable hourly billing rates

    4. company (client) can have more than one project

    5. projects + subprojects

  2. Reports

    1. weekly manhours reports

    2. paid/unpaid invoices

    3. project timeline

    4. summary by persons

    5. summary by project

    6. summary by task

    7. summary by customer

  3. Internationalization

    1. international language support

    2. international currency support

    3. billing plugins for Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy & USA

  4. Invoices

    1. hour based line items at billable rate

    2. task based line items at fixed cost

    3. printable/emailable PDF for client

    4. enable/disable letterhead, tasklist, timesheet

  5. Quotations

    1. customizable line items

  6. Miscellaneous

    1. customizable company, person, project, and project status categories

    2. customizable color scheme

    3. default hourly billing rates

    4. customizable hourly billing rates by project