Popular Online Billing Application Hiveage Now Available In Your Language / Hiveage, an online billing application aimed at small business owners and freelancers, this week launched its localization feature, allowing its users from over 140 countries to serve their clients in their language of choice.

Hiveage, an online billing application aimed at small business owners and freelancers today launched its localization feature, meaning that it can be used in multiple languages at the same time. Now, their customers from over 140 countries can in turn invoice their clients in 16 different languages, with more coming soon.

“Though we are based in Sri Lanka and the United States, our focus has always been global,” said Lankitha Wimalarathna, Founder and CEO of Hiveage. “We love the fact that our app serves the whole world, and we’re really excited about this feature precisely because of that. We know that this is going to help a new business on every continent this week, and well, that’s something, isn’t it?”

Though Hiveage’s main user base is American, they also have thousands of users from Europe, East Asia, South Africa and Latin America. “Everyone at Hiveage HQ speaks two languages, and thus we know more than anyone the importance of being able to communicate in a language you are comfortable in,” said Prabhath Sirisena, co-founder and Creative Director. “We offer out of the box support for over 15 languages right now, with more coming soon. Ultimately, we’d like to have every language a customer or one of their clients uses, and we’ll be working with our users to make sure their ones end up in the app.”

Hiveage’s free tier allows users to send unlimited invoices forever, and the web application is thus a hit among new businesses. In fact, Hiveage has thousands of free users who don’t pay a dime to use the service. “The Internet has allowed for a growth in small businesses the world over, and we think that’s great,” said Lanktiha. “As a SME ourselves, our mission has always been to help others like us do business better, and we think a part of that is giving new startups the opportunity to bill their clients without getting charged for it.”

Hiveage has always had a global focus, and to this end has consistently added more and more payment gateways so their worldwide user base has a choice regarding how they get paid. “Getting paid online is much harder than it needs to be, and we think that small businesses often get the short end of the stick in this regard,” said Prabhath. “By adding more payment gateways, we’re trying to give all our users the opportunity to find a payment option that works for them, no matter where they are in the world.”

That’s not all Hiveage is working on. “Our product roadmap for the next few months is pretty stacked,” said Lankitha. “We have our mobile apps coming, and our API is almost ready as well. We hope to have both live by the end of the year.” 

The Hiveage API will allow third party developers to create applications that talk directly to Hiveage’s servers, allowing them to develop applications that can be used by the online billing service’s extensive worldwide user base. “In the end, we see Hiveage as a small business platform, and if other applications can connect to it and enhance the way our users do business, that’s a win for everyone,” said Lankitha.

FullSpeed Provides Spreadsheet-like Macros in Cloud-based Accounting Apps: QuickBooks Online, Xero, and Others

Mark Wilsdorf for Fullspeed writes: Most people who have used word processing software know what a macro is: a group of commands you can put together quickly to do a repetitive job, like adding blank spaces at the beginnings of several lines, or changing underlined words to italics on an entire page. Wouldn't it be great if someday macros could apply calculations to multiple lines of data in applications like QuickBooks Online, Xero, or other cloud-based accounting software?

That day is here! FullSpeed lets you set up simple formulas in its own internal spreadsheet and applies them to data in other programs at the press of hotkey. In fact you can have multiple macros defined, each with its own unique hotkey.

What kinds of things can FullSpeed do? ...calculations involving multiple columns of an invoice, column subtotals and totals, calculate discounts or freight surcharges or special taxes, autonumber lines, provide customized messages like "A discount of $123.45 is available if paid by October 15, 2014", and a lot more. FullSpeed supports a wide range of Excel-compatible spreadsheet features such as numeric and statistical functions, IF logic, date/time functions, text manipulation, and plenty of ways to format results: currency, numeric, date/time, etc.; even the ability to display decimal amounts as fractions.

FullSpeed works in invoices, estimates, purchase orders, sales orders, bills, checks, sales receipts, grids, etc.--almost anywhere you can enter accounting data. It is compatible with any Windows-based Web browser which supports Microsoft's UI Automation technology, such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, or Microsoft Internet Explorer. FullSpeed is not limited to browser-based apps though: it also works in some native Windows applications like QuickBooks desktop editions. (Though FullSpeed can work with a variety of application types, it has mostly been certified to work with accounting applications in this first release of the product.)

Many cloud-based accounting applications have limited space available for data or calculated results. For example, neither QuickBooks Online nor Xero currently supports custom fields in the line items area of invoices. But FullSpeed overcomes this problem in two ways:

(1) It supports storing data in the Description field of sale or purchase items, and can extract it to use in calculations. For instance, users can store a per-unit shipping weight in each item's Description, and FullSpeed can use it to calculate the total shipping weight for an invoice.

(2) FullSpeed's Scratchpad feature allows macros to temporarily store results of intermediate calculations, so they don't have to be written to the target application where no space may be available to hold them.

Maybe the most unique feature of FullSpeed is that it works directly on data in the target application. Users get to see the results of calculations immediately while working in an invoice, purchase order, or other form. There's no need to export the form's data to do calculations in Microsoft Excel or some other program, and no need to re-import or Copy and Paste results that were calculated elsewhere.

FullSpeed is priced at $119 for a single-user license, less for multi-user licensing. FullSpeed is compatible with Microsoft Windows XP (SP3) and all later versions including Windows 7 and Windows 8.

A downloadable 30-day free trial and step-by-step examples are available from FullSpeed's main Web page: http://www.goflagship.com/products/fullspeed.htm