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A simple Django project for generating and email pdf invoices.

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# Django InvoiceProject

This is a Django project aimed at individuals and small businesses that are looking for a simple way to invoice their customers.

This sample project is aimed at a small pet services business, so the models and apps are customized for that use case. Anything can be rewritten to fit other use cases. The invoiceapp relies on Service, Pet, Customer, and Address. As of now, Address is the only published app. It can be installed with pip install django-simple-address (address in INSTALLED_APPS). I do not plan on publishing the services or pets apps as they are very simple and specific to my current use case. I may publish them bundled with the invoiceapp as it is dependent on them.

## Installation

To install the project clone the repository or download the project as a zip and extract it. Change to the django_invoiceproject directory, and install the requirements with pip install -r requirements.txt. Make sure this is done in a virtualenv.

Postfix is used to email customers the invoices.

Make sure that postfix is installed and configured.

For Ubuntu systems: sudo apt-get install postfix will install it.

To configure it: cp /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.debian /etc/postfix/main.cf Add the following lines to main.cf:

mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 [::ffff:127.0.0.0]/104 [::1]/128 mydestination = localhost

Then, reload this config file: /etc/init.d/postfix reload

For more information checkout the postfix documentation

Test that you can send email from the command line. If this is successfull, you are all done for sending emails

Lastly, configure your postgres database. This project assume that you have created a directory called otm unser /etc/ and created a pass and secret files containing your db user password and your djangi secret key respectively. So, the db user password is under /etc/otm/pass and the secret key is at /etc/otm/secret If you want to change the email host and information, change the configuration in the settings.py file

## Usage

Once all the required packaged are installed in virtualenv and postfix setup Run: python manage.py migrate to create the database tables Then create a superuser: python mange.py createsuperuser, Finally run the development server: python manage.py runserver Then go to localhost:8000/admin. Login with the super user credentials, you should be able to add your business information, and other goodies.

## Contributing

  1. Fork it!

  2. Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature

  3. Commit your changes: git commit -am ‘Add some feature’

  4. Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature

  5. Submit a pull request :D

## License

Look at the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file at the root of the project

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