Welcome to BriskBills

BriskBills is an extensible Rails App designed to provide a billing and basic accounting features for small businesses. BriskBills currently provides:

  • Automatic PDF-based invoicing, via email, to clients

  • An extensive interface for managing time, materials, and proposals for multiple employees in an organization

  • Tax collection and tracking

  • Payment and Account Balance tracking

  • Basic Client Roster Management

  • Comprehensive unit tests

  • Excellent stubs for fleshing out your own organization’s specific models & controllers

Getting started

BriskBills is a traditional Ruby on Rails application, meaning that you can configure and run it the way you would a normal Rails application.

  1. Once the brisk-bills gem has been instakled, start a new brisk-bills deployment using the brisk-bills command and your site name. Ex: brisk-bills myorganization

  2. Change directory into myorganization and run “rake brisk_bills:first_time_setup” to create your administrative account and get started.

  3. Start the web server: script/server

  4. Go to localhost:3000/ and login with your administrative account to begin creating employees and get started

  5. Visit www.briskbills.com to read more