Hiveage

Hiveage
Development status Active
Available in English
Type Software as a service
Website www.hiveage.com

Hiveage is an invoicing and billing software as a service developed and launched by Vesess Inc. in 2014.[1] It is the successor to CurdBee, launched by the same company in 2008.[2] Hiveage has a user base covering more than 140 countries.[3]

Features

Hiveage has a free plan which supports unlimited invoicing and unlimited clients, with PayPal as the payment gateway. In addition to fully featured premium plans, it also has a modular pricing scheme[4] which allows users to selectively add more features, such as estimates, time, expense and mileage tracking, recurring and auto-billing, team members, and other payment gateways such as Stripe, Authorize.net, Braintree, WePay and 2Checkout. Hiveage supports localization, which allows users to send invoices in multiple languages.[5] In March 2015, it added Bitcoin payment support through Coinbase. [6] [7]

CurdBee

CurdBee logo, with the text and an image of a bee
The CurdBee Logo

CurdBee was initially developed by Vesess as an in-house PHP application to invoice clients.[8] The public version was developed using Ruby on Rails and launched on 17 June 2008.[9][10] It was mainly used by small businesses and freelancers.[11][12]

CurdBee had a free plan which supports unlimited invoicing and unlimited clients, with PayPal and Google Checkout as payment gateways.[13] Paid plans had additional features such as multiple payment gateways, recurring invoices, time and expense tracking and custom domains.[14]

Notes

  1. "New Hiveage Billing Platform Reduces Small Business Overhead and Boosts Annual Growth up to 20 Percent". Yahoo Finance. 21 January 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  2. "Hiveage simplifies invoicing, electronic payments". ZDNet. 22 January 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
  3. "Hiveage: The Invoicing Platform That Wants to Surpass Freshbooks and Harvest". tech.co. 14 May 2014. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
  4. "The Power of Customizable SAAS Price Modeling". 10 October 2014. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
  5. "Popular Online Billing Application Hiveage Now Available In Your Language". 25 September 2014. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
  6. "Online Billing Service Hiveage Adds Bitcoin Support with Coinbase". 8 April 2015. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
  7. "Bitcoin for Freelancers: Popular Billing Service Hiveage Adds Bitcoin". 10 April 2015. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
  8. "The Bee". 17 June 2008. Retrieved 8 February 2012.
  9. Fitzpatrick, Jason (5 August 2008), Invoice For Free With CurdBee, Lifehacker, retrieved 8 February 2012
  10. Blitstein, Scott (27 August 2008), CurdBee Could Be The Billing Service For You, GigaOm, retrieved 8 February 2012
  11. Lorber, Laura (21 June 2010), Managing Technology: CurdBee, The Wall Street Journal, retrieved 8 February 2012
  12. "The Inside Scoop". 3 February 2009. Retrieved 8 February 2012.
  13. Purdy, Kevin (30 January 2010), Top 10 Tips and Tools for Freelancers, Lifehacker, retrieved 8 February 2012
  14. Send Invoices, Make Friends and Earn Money with CurdBee Partner Program, Yahoo News, 15 April 2010, retrieved 8 February 2012

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