Ask HN: Please make your SASS' invoices filenames human-friendly
Please make your SASS' invoices filenames human-friendly and save your clients hours of frustrating, menial, error-prone work.
Every month I and countless other paying customers of yours have to download your invoice and have it processed with my company's accounting.
I need to do this for 5-10 SAAS services every month.
Most of these files are named completely randomly, often like this (ex. - 'Browserstack: Invoice-8a28fd166d2cace7016d34cbe6f06e11-20190915.pdf') or just the word "invoice", or just a hash, or sometimes, the invoice date but no company name. Some don't even allow a downlnoad so I have to save the screen as PDF myself.
Here's what would make mine and many, many others' lives easier and happier:
Use a filename like this:
saas_name--date_of_invoice--amount_of_invoice.pdf
This is what my accounting dept is asking for and is a major PIA.
It is trivial to automate and would make me and countless other paying customers delighted by the thoughtfulness and care of your company much much more than any PR initiative you can think of.
Please, please bring this up to the decision-makers in your company.