Thank you for the feedback, Samuel, I appeciate it.
Samuel Murray wrote:
The site claims that no user manual is necessary because everything is straight-forward, but even when creating a dummy invoice I was a bit baffled by some of the options, although I'm sure that I would have learnt what everything does and where everything is as soon as I created a few dummy jobs to see how things appear on the invoice.
Is there anything specific that you found baffling? If you refer to the icon buttons, the meaning of the icons is not quite clear just by looking at them (there are no universally recognized icons for taxes for example), but since there are only 3 options, I thought it shouldn't take too long to get the hang of them.
Samuel Murray wrote:
UI elements are not always standard (e.g. when I wanted to add a new client, I could not figure out how... I kept looking for a link or a button that would start the client creation process, and after hovering my mouse over various parts of the screen I discovered that one of the sub-headings is actually not a sub-heading but a button), but again, I'm sure once you have used the product for just a little while, you may remember them.
I'll update the client page to improve the visibility of the button to add a client.
Samuel Murray wrote:
The wizards for creating various things use the page-turning method whereby instead of just placing all the elements of the wizard on a single page, every bit of information that is needed appears on its own little screen after clicking Next, Next, Next etc. Perhaps the developer thought that users might feel overwhelmed by too many fields? (-:
The job creation wizard is divided into different sections for a couple of reasons: first, to avoid dropdown menus and scrolling, and second, because the steps are dependent on the previous steps. For example, after selecting a client in the first step, job types and language pairs in the next step are sorted according to the client. In step 3, selecting currency and unit and setting a rate can be skipped for existing clients.