Sprout Invoices – Client Invoicing & Estimates vs UpdraftPlus

WordPress Invoicing Made Easy Our focus since day one 4+ years ago with Sprout Invoices has been to create a way for WordPress site owners to invoice and EASILY get paid. We also understand that customization beyond branding is important, and that’s why we built the most POWERFUL solution with the most integrations around. Sprout Invoices allows you to create beautiful estimates and invoices for your clients in minutes — not hours. If you’re not familiar with WordPress templating than our knowledgebase and priority support can help. Even though our goal is to make getting paid easy, providing fast and reliable support is a priority. We don’t want any user to feel alone. Trust the reviews and join an awesome community of happy users. Sprout Invoices Pro This plugin is the lite version of the Sprout Invoices Pro plugin that comes with all the invoicing features you will ever need including recurring invoices, recurring payments, pre-defined line items, client dashboards, Stripe and many other payment processors, advanced reporting, hundreds of integrations (including Zapier) and a ton more. Click here to learn more about the best Invoicing plugin for WordPress now! Getting Paid Efficiently Sprout Invoices is meant to remove the hoops and hurdles required in a typical workflow of accepting estimate requests, creating an estimate/quote, and getting paid. Learn more about this goal to improve your workflow on sproutinvoices.com. The Integration Powers of Sprout Invoices While Sprout Invoices automates many tasks the real power comes from the flexibility through integrations. Payments Integrations Sprout Invoices integrates with the most popular payment gateways around. Including: PayPal (free), Stripe, Authorize.net, Square, 2Checkout, eWay, NMI, and many more. Integrate with PayPal & make accepting invoice payments easy. The free PayPal plugin is available here. Easy Invoice & Estimate Submissions with WordPress Integrations with your favorite WordPress form plugins allow you to build an easy solution to creating dynamic invoices based on the prospective client’s form selections. Pre-defined Line Items (pro feature) are used to create the custom submission form and every form integration is easy! All form builder integrations are free! Gravity Forms Ninja Forms WP Forms Formidable Forms Invoicing Requirements Around the Globe Supporting many different languages is another focus of ours, and with that comes the responsibility of meeting local government invoicing requirements. Here are some of free plugins to help support the globe: EU Invoicing Requirements Australian Invoicing Requirements Canadian Invoicing Requirements ESP Invoicing Requirements (IVA & IRPF) If your invoice requirements are not met with one of the plugins above please let us know. Full Sprout Invoices Feature List Unlimited Invoices, Estimates and Clients. No restrictions! The best payment experience for your clients with options for them to pay via Check, PO or Paypal (additional gateways available). Hundreds of Integrations Fully customizable templates with your own theme. Payment management. Advanced Reporting (limited w/ free version) Client management. Multi-currency support with client specific options. Localization support for your language! Freshbooks, Harvest, WP-Invoice, and CSV Importing. Fully customizable notifications. Notifications are sent from your server and allow for plain-text and HTML. Nested line items. Advanced records with any extra tables! Includes a customizable estimates/lead generation form. Improved user experience with AJAX. Advanced Taxes for your region Client records with multiple points of contact No extra database tables! Pro Features All of the popular features listed below are bundled with a pro license. Consider joining the community of happy Sprout Invoices Pro users. Sprout Billings an effortless way for recurring invoices to be paid automatically on a set bill date, and easily settle outstanding invoices with a single click. Your customers/clients can easily manage their payment profiles from a dashboards or an invoice. Sprout Billings offers ACH support too! Recurring/Subscription Payments Recurring Invoices Client Dashboards Payment Terms Deposit payments WooCommerce Integrations Pre-defined Line Items Client Summary Notifications Accept Stripe Payments Accept payments from Authorize.net, Square, 2Checkout, eWay, NMI, and many more Time Tracking and Projects Line Item Commenting Dynamic Text Make sure to review the Sprout Invoices features page for more detailed information. Getting Paid with WordPress and Sprout Invoices Support Priority support is provided with an upgraded version. All free support will provided in the forums.

The UpdraftPlus Backup & Migration Plugin is trusted by the WordPress community to backup, restore and migrate their WordPress websites. UpdraftPlus is actively installed on more than 3 million websites around the world. Backup with UpdraftPlus UpdraftPlus is the world’s highest ranking and most popular scheduled backup and migration plugin. Backup to your preferred storage location and restore in just three clicks. Backup to Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon S3 (or compatible), Rackspace Cloud, FTP, DreamObjects, Openstack Swift or email. The paid version also allows you to backup to Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Backblaze B2, SFTP, SCP, pCloud, WebDAV or UpdraftVault, our integrated storage option for UpdraftPlus. Backup manually or schedule to run every 2, 4, 8 or 12 hours, daily, weekly, monthly or fortnightly. Restore with UpdraftPlus Your WordPress website is vulnerable. Your site may get hacked. Something could go wrong with an update or your server could crash. You might need to reverse a change made or a mistake caused by human error. Whatever the reason, you can restore your WordPress website in just a few clicks with UpdraftPlus. Choose which components to restore (e.g. plugins, themes, database etc.), click again to restore, then click again to return to the main screen. Migrate with UpdraftPlus It’s easy to migrate your WordPress website to another web host, server or domain with this free version of UpdraftPlus. To migrate, simply download your database, plugins, themes etc. from the source site, then upload them into your destination site. When migrating, a built-in search-and-replace engine identifies old strings and replaces these to reflect the new location. UpdraftPlus saves you time and reduces the risk of broken links or missing files associated with manual migrations. Why UpdraftPlus? Writing a reliable backup and migration plugin that ‘just works’ consistently across millions of different WordPress deployments is hard. UpdraftPlus is relied upon to do exactly that. We’re trusted and actively deployed on more websites around the world than any other WordPress backup and migration plugin. UpdraftPlus: Backs up, migrates and restores Offers a huge number of remote storage locations Allows you to schedule backups, so you can ‘set and forget’ Is comprehensive and easy to use Is proven to work on over 3 million sites. UpdraftPlus Premium The free version of UpdraftPlus will back up and migrate your website perfectly well. However if you need more features and options you can purchase our Premium version. Backup and Migrate with UpdraftPlus Premium, and: Get automatic backups before updates. Restore the very latest version if a WordPress or plugin update breaks your site. Backup Incrementally. Changes are added to the master, saving server resources vs repeatedly backing up in full. Get more remote storage options including Microsoft OneDrive, SFTP, Microsoft Azure, WebDAV, Google Cloud, SCP, Backblaze and pCloud. Get 1GB of integrated storage with UpdraftVault for 99.999% reliability, redundancy and scalability. Get more control over how many backups are stored in a specified interval. Restore from other backup plugins including BackWPup, BackupWordPress, Simple Backups and more. Run backups at set times e.g. during periods of low traffic. Backup to more than one location for added protection. Get detailed reports. Includes cryptographic checksums so you can verify the integrity of the backup files and more. Get Premium migration. Migrating to the destination site is more direct and can be done from the source site. Get Multisite / multi-network compatibility. Backup non-WP files and databases e.g. tables belonging to your e-commerce store or customisations to WordPress core. Get database encryption. Manage your backups and migrations from the WP-CLI. Get Premium Support. Find out more on our comparison page. UpdraftPlus Premium is available for purchase here. Managing multiple websites? UpdraftCentral is a powerful remote control dashboard for WordPress that allows you to manage your backups, as well as updates, users, pages, posts, plugins and themes from one central location. Choose between: UpdraftCentral (free, self-hosted) UpdraftCentral Premium (paid-for, self-hosted) UpdraftCentral Cloud (paid-for, fully-hosted) Optimize your sites centrally by combining the power of WP-Optimize and UpdraftCentral or manage your backups centrally by combining the power of UpdraftPlus with UpdraftCentral. Need to create a temporary clone of your site? UpdraftClone makes it quick and easy to create a temporary sandbox for changes you want to try out. Simply select the versions of WordPress and PHP that you want, and we’ll do the rest. More about UpdraftClone The full suite of plugins from Team Updraft and friends UpdraftPlus. Backup, migrate and restore. Rated 5* on the plugin directory and trusted by more than 3 million WordPress website owner WP-Optimize. Clean the database, compress images and caching. Optimize your WordPress website. 5* user rating. 1 million + active installs. All-In-One Security (AIOS). Secure your WordPress website. Comprehensive, feature rich and easy to use. 5* user rating and 1 million + active installs. WP Overnight. Quality Extensions for your WooCommerce store. 5* rated invoicing, order and product management, customer management solutions and more. Easy Updates Manager. Take control of updates. Lots of features for free, and a Premium version with even more – over 300,000 users. Internal Link Juicer.Boost your SEO. Automate internal links within your WordPress website. Save time and rank higher in the search engines. For other useful, free plugins see our lead developer’s profile, here. Are you multilingual? Can you translate? Do you want to help people that speak your language to backup, migrate and restore their WordPress websites? The UpdraftPlus backup, migration and restoration plugin is ready and waiting. The translation process is easy, and web-based – please go here for instructions: https://updraftplus.com/translate/. Or, if you’re already an expert WordPress translator, just pick out the .pot file from the wp-content/plugins/updraftplus/languages/ directory – if you scan for translatable strings manually, then you need to get these functions: _x(), __(), _e(), _ex(), log_e(). Many thanks to our existing translators. License Copyright 2011-24 David Anderson This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA Non-English translators are provided by volunteers, and wordpress.org does not give plugin developers control over their translations; thus relying on them is at your own risk; UpdraftPlus cannot guarantee that translations from the original English are accurate. 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