I have invoice ninja 4 and used it for years. The problem was trying to install freaking version 5 which is completely different. At first I thought I could install it using softactaculus, and although I connected my server fine, it refused to install there using remote softaculus account. I thought I was being smart.
So then I stumbled upon a 3 minute video from the invoice ninja youtube where he clearly just installs the files, even though I read in documents you can’t just ‘install the files and set it up’. Yet, he did it in the video! Why isn’t that mentioned in the documentation? I was beating myself in the head over this. And even here, upon asking, no one told me it was that simple…??
So after WEEKS I simply installed the files and went to /setup and low and behold It seemed I could setup just fine. and I went thru each testing process where I was cleared and connected until I got to the bottom and started to create my account. and then when I submitted ALL the info that was acccepted and working fine, instead of creating my new account on my server, the screen refreshed BACK to the setup page and did not make my account at all. no warning, no errors, just reverted back to the setup page. and it did it twice! I gave up at that point. I just gave up.
I gave in and purchased the pro plan for version 5 on the hosted invoice ninja website and am still having a few issues. I imported my json file from v4 self hosted, to v4 hosted. then migrated that to version 5 and now I’m having weird issues with version 5 I’m trying to solve with the customer service!! I want to pull my hair out.
I’ll try and self host down the road when v5 is much more stable and if it becomes easier to install without all these bugs I see everyone else has with installation too.
All in all, I guess its worth the headache because I do love Invoice ninja when compared with competitors. I"m just curious now…what happened to proposals in version 5?? that was the entire reason I made the switch to invoice ninja in the first place years ago…ugh…