Kyle is a web application built with Laravel for web developers and small companies to efficiently track and stay on top of yearly expenses related to services. We believe that having a calendar with reoccurring meetings or relying on email notifications from service providers is not a trustworthy source of information to bill clients for the services they use.
Kyle attempts to provide you with a clear and simple way to see which client uses which services and when those service need to be billed. The idea behind Kyle is very simple "Never forget to bill a client for the services that he uses".
Names and prices displayed in this image are all fictional and are provided here for demonstration purposes.
- Overview of services for current and upcoming month
- Service breakdown by month
- Keep track of services that a client uses
- Group services by custom defined categories
- Yearly report and statistics
- Track is the offer sent, payment received and receipt sent
- Email notifications (Planned)
Install by issuing the Composer create-project command in your terminal:
composer create-project --prefer-dist laravelista/kyle
Change values in .env file related to DB_ and APP_ keys.
You need to set your database values including:
- DB_HOST
- DB_PORT
- DB_DATABASE
- DB_USERNAME
- DB_PASSWORD
Also you need to set application to production env and disable debugging if you are planning on running Kyle on a production server:
- APP_ENV=production
- APP_DEBUG=false
Run migrations with:
php artisan migrate
To populate Kyle with sample data and see how the Overview and Report pages look like, use this command:
php artisan db:seed
Warning! This command will populate the database with a lot of sample data. Use only while testing or if you understand what will happen once this command has triggered.
This will create a sample user with which you can login:
| Password | |
|---|---|
| sample@user.dev | password |
To create a new user use this command:
php artisan user:create "John Doe" john@doe.com
You will be asked for the password.
At the start of every year 1st of January a command occurrences:spawn is executed using the task scheduler.
Be sure to add Cron entry to your server:
* * * * * php /path/to/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1
This command creates new occurrences for services that will occur in the new year.