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Is there an easy way to see some sample invoices/receipts? I didn't notice it. You should let prospects enter their email and get some fake invoices sent along to see how it looks. Sounds like a good incentive for me to give you my email address.

Do you think it's best for YOU to send the email directly to my customer, or really shouldn't it come from me? What about the confidentiality of my customer records. You mention 3GB of storage, are you keeping these invoices around on your server?

The Stripe API is powerful, but you definitely open up your data to 3rd parties when you leverage it like this.

Could you bundle a 'self-hosted' version which could be run internally?

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> You should let prospects enter their email and get some fake invoices sent along to see how it looks. Sounds like a good incentive for me to give you my email address.

And that's why we love HN. I suspect they are working on it right now:-)

I would be concerned about the customer record confidentiality issue. Here in Europe we could only consider working with you if you were signed up to the EU Safe Harbor Act. Its pretty minimal for you - and makes my life easier as I can actually not break UK law.

Actually we are a EU base company, so we support the Data Protection Directive :)

Where in the EU, OOC?

Spain and Germany.

Aha (sheepish look)

That's great really - I guess there is a new -ism, sexism, ageism now Delawareism - the unjustified prejudice that everything is an American company.

Good luck !

The sample invoices are a very good idea :)

We send the invoices on your behalf. Your customers will see only you emails address, not ours.

As we're an European based company, we support the European Data Protection Directive. All your customer records are safe.

At this moment we don't have plan to develop a 'self-hosted' version. But we can considere it in the future.

Thanks for your feedback!! ;-)

> We send the invoices on your behalf. Your customers will see only you emails address, not ours.

If you're not doing this with my SMTP credentials those emails are going to go straight into most folks' spam folders, as I have properly set up SPF records.

In that case you can add our mail server to your SPF records.

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