This is the Loading Deck billing application that was until early May 2014, offered as SaaS. We have since decided to refocus our company on consultancy and offer this as a free product under the Apache licence. Please familiarise yourself with the Apache licence before downloading this software.

This software is a large project and has involved a number of developers to date. Most notably, it was managed by James Hadley under Loading Deck Limited. If you like the software, please consider hiring Loading Deck as your web consultants, or make a small donation to my coffee fund.

Key features of this software include module support (but unfortunately no modules) for web hosting billing, invoicing, estimates, project management, inventory management, bulk data import/export, recurring billing, integration with Paypal, Stripe and GoCardless, and great aesthetics.

1. Get a (virtual) server. This app is quite demanding and doesn't work well on shared hosting. 1GB RAM is probably enough.
2. Install a web server and PHP 5.4. We recommend Apache because it's easy to use and doesn't involve writing lots of additional rewrite rules.
3. Install Wkhtmltopdf. We found that version 0.9.6 works best.
4. Clone the repository using Git
5. Point your web server to the "web" directory
6. Change the parameters commented in app/config/parameters.yml and app/config/config.yml
7. Run php composer.phar update to get the vendor packages
8. Import the SQL file
9. Run php app/console assets:install to generate the static assets
10. Add php app/console app_admin:generate_recurring to your crontab to run daily
11. Change the permissions on app/cache and app/logs to 777
12. Log in with username "admin" and password "123456" at URL "/login"

1. Backup app/config/parameters.yml and app/config/config.yml
2. Get the new files from Git
3. Restore the backed up files
4. Run php composer.phar update to get the vendor packages
5. Backup your database
6. Run php app/console doctrine:schema:update --force to make any necessary changes to the DB schema. Check the new structure and restore your backup if it's done something wrong.
7. Run php app/console assets:install to generate the static assets
8. Change the permissions on app/cache and app/logs to 777

If you need additional help, please consider our forum that you can use to discuss the software with us. Paid support and development are also available by email and telephone (see above).

Both issues and PR are welcome via the Github repository. If you know Symfony then we'd appreciate you taking the time to send us a PR. Issues and PRs will be reviewed within our spare time. We are aware of a number of bugs already, from both before and during the transition away from SaaS. Use this software at your own risk!

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Please let us know if we've forgotten anyone.