I’ve been a great fan of this little web 2.0 application. It’s been simple to use and effective, best of all it has been completely free. Invoice Machine is a free web based application to make invoices simple, enter in the fields of you and your client, add in the details for the invoice, choose a design template and then create the invoice and have a PDF pop out at the end. All this can be done in roughly 5 minutes.

Recently, I went to use the Invoice Machine for one of my clients and found that while the site was up, it had an error and was no longer producing the PDF at the end.

I made my way to Bombia Design who created the Invoice Machine to see if there was any news on if it would be coming back or not. Looking at their Blog, something is in the works from Bomba Design and our favourite little application is on it’s way back with some luck. There is a blog post about the Invoice Machine, below is what it says.

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The Invoice Machine 2.0 Video Teaser
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Our handy little web application to create PDF invoices has been very well received by small businesses and free-lancers around the world. At times it’s been so heavily used that our server became overloaded. It’s now running on a new dedicated server to handle the increased traffic.

However, since the server move it haven’t been working correctly. The PDF file does not render, instead it shows up a bunch on characters. We apologize for this and thank you for your patience while we’re trying to figure out a solution.

We are currently working on version 2.0 and we’ve put up a little video teaser to demonstrate some of the new features and the lovely new interface. The Invoice Machine 2.0 will soon be open for voluntary beta testers and hopefully the final version will be ready to release in a couple of months.

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You can see the teaser movie here (Quicktime Movie) for Invoice Machine 2.0.

I emailed the creator asking how far off it was, and also that I’m interested in being a tester for the Beta of Invoice Machine 2.0, and we should be seeing something in the coming months.