WEB-BASED INVOICING SYSTEM FOR A. N. COMPANY

Abstract

Information Technology has successfully combined with various sectors and operations of the business world and one such operation is sales invoicing. This project report and the proposed system that it documents seeks to build an effective and efficient automated invoicing system for A. N. Company, a medium-scale growing organisations in the timber furnishing industry of Sri Lanka. The existing invoicing system of A. N. Company is largely a manual based system with insubstantial utilisations of Information Technology. Such a system generates numerous drawbacks and shortcomings that act as a leeway for ineffectiveness. Predominant drawbacks of the existing system of A. N. Company include the inability to effectually modify invoices and the high frequency of the human mistakes. Accordingly, the proposed system will seek to implement a computerised solution that will automate the data processing and invoice generation as well as invoice posting processes. This will eliminate any human-induced inaccuracies and ensure that the entire invoicing system of the organisation will operate in a much faster, accurate, and reliable manner. Furthermore, the various security measures that will be applied to the proposed system will ensure a high level of data security. The scope of this particular project includes the creation of a web-based invoicing system that will operate in conjunction with ERP ACCPAC and this system will handle all invoicing requirements of the five divisions of A. N. Company. The design of the proposed system will be carried out according to the Layered Development Architecture. The primary tools and technologies utilised so far for designing and implementing the system includes Bootstrap, JavaScript, C#.NET, ASP.NET, SQL Server 2008, and Crystal Reports. At present the analysis and designing phase of the entire proposed system has been completed. All the user interfaces for the web-based segment of the proposed system have been finalised.