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FreeAgent generating illegal invoices?
Hi - just started using FreeAgent after incorporating my business at the start of the month. It's already time for my first invoices to be raised. Loving the ability to customise CSS templates, however a big issue strikes me which seems thus far unresolved.
As mentioned in this thread (http://community.freeagentcentral.com...) FreeAgent Invoices do not currently allow me any way to meet my legal obligations to specify Trading As and Registered Office addresses. Like many, my registered office is at my accountants. The last thing I need for my cashflow is for clients who are paying by cheque to further delay the credit to my bank account by adding an unnecessary hop to my accountant's office with their cheque. Sadly, if I set my main address as Trading Address via FreeAgent (perfectly possible, I know), I am in breach of Companies Act by now also displaying my Registered Address.
I work in IT - I know how hard it is to prioritise bug-fixing/enhancements with new functionality - but this one really does seem terribly easy to resolve. Simply allow a "Footer text" property somewhere in the Company Settings config and append this as a simple HTML / text DIV tag to the end of any documents that are generated by FreeAgent.
Sure, I'm simplifying things, but I can't be far of the mark... :)
As mentioned in this thread (http://community.freeagentcentral.com...) FreeAgent Invoices do not currently allow me any way to meet my legal obligations to specify Trading As and Registered Office addresses. Like many, my registered office is at my accountants. The last thing I need for my cashflow is for clients who are paying by cheque to further delay the credit to my bank account by adding an unnecessary hop to my accountant's office with their cheque. Sadly, if I set my main address as Trading Address via FreeAgent (perfectly possible, I know), I am in breach of Companies Act by now also displaying my Registered Address.
I work in IT - I know how hard it is to prioritise bug-fixing/enhancements with new functionality - but this one really does seem terribly easy to resolve. Simply allow a "Footer text" property somewhere in the Company Settings config and append this as a simple HTML / text DIV tag to the end of any documents that are generated by FreeAgent.
Sure, I'm simplifying things, but I can't be far of the mark... :)
I’m puzzled why this feature doesn't already exist
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Inappropriate?Hi Greg,
When you create an invoice you can use the Additional Info section to add whatever text you like to the footer of an invoice, so you could add your Trading Address there.
At the minute. you have to do this manually for each invoice, which is a bit of pain, so in an upcoming release we'll let you specify default text that's added to the bottom of every invoice.
Does that help you?
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this answers the question
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Inappropriate?OK, let me retract my sensationalist post subject. In the absence of a permanent solution, this is exactly the interim solution I would have expected.
Sorry I didn't spot this myself. *embarrassed*.
I’m wishing I'd spotted this solution for myself
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Inappropriate?It raises an interesting point though. I was searching on this issue and found this post from a year ago:
http://community.freeagentcentral.com...
Are there any plans to allow multiple company addresses? I know very few small businesses who have the same registered and trading address, and everything FreeAgent central offers to date is a workaround (headed paper, notes section, etc.) rather than a true accommodation of the problem people are continuing to have.
What most of us would like to be able to do is have a SEPARATE registered and trading address. The registered address could show as a footer under notes, or something like that - the trading address could show on the invoice where the registered address currently appears.
This "feature request" has been rumbling on for a while now. Any plans to address it?
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