Install InfyInvoices
If you have purchased the InfyInvoices system then you will be able to find the zip named dist.zip
.
If you want to setup InfyInvoices
into your local environment then you can take help from
here.
Now if you want to setup InfyInvoices on your server then you can directly copy the dist.zip
folder to your web root
directory on a server and the following steps:
1. Copy files to web server
Upload dist.zip
to your web server's root (public_html) and extract it there.
2. Setup Default DB
- Open PHPMyAdmin on your server and do a login.
- Click on the Databases tab.
- Create a new database and specify a Database name of your choice and Click Create button.
-
Now on the left, select the database (infy_invoices) OR the one that you have created.
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Click Import in the top menu
- Under Import, choose the default sql file from
dist/database/infy_invoices.sql
and click button Go.
3. Setup environment .env file
- Open .env file from your server's root folder.
- Update your .env file
You need to change the following information into your environment (.env) file.
- APP_NAME - Name of your Application
- APP_URL - Change this URL with your server URL (including trailing path if you are putting it in sub folder or root website)
- DB_HOST - Put your database hostname here
- DB_PORT - Put your database port here if it does not default to 3306
- DB_DATABASE - Change it to your database name
- DB_USERNAME - Name of your database user
- DB_PASSWORD - Password of your database user
You will also need to set up mail configuration and update the following variables. You can use the below video for the reference on how to setup email configuration for cPanel servers.
- MAIL_MAILER
- MAIL_HOST
- MAIL_PORT
- MAIL_USERNAME
- MAIL_PASSWORD
- MAIL_ENCRYPTION
- ADMIN_EMAIL
- MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS=${ADMIN_EMAIL}
- MAIL_FROM_NAME="${APP_NAME}"
If you want to store your files to direct your s3
bucket then you have to use following .env
variables.
You need to change FILESYSTEM_DRIVER
and MEDIA_DISK
value to s3
when you are using AWS file storage.
- AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=
- AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=
- AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-east-1
- AWS_BUCKET=
- AWS_ENDPOINT=
- AWS_URL=
Or you can use your choice of storage driver to store your media assets if you want. All of your attachments will be placed into that.
Set Stripe configuration it is using while Invoice Bill payments. Here are some links by using it you will get an idea about how to generate stripe API keys.
Set up the Razorpay Credentials into env:
You have to create account from Here and then you can find steps here to generate keys Here
- RAZORPAY_KEY=
- RAZORPAY_SECRET=
Then we have added another payment gateway called PayPal. Therefore, update the .env
file with below keys and find the step to Setup PayPal credentials
Setup PayPal Credentials
You just need PayPal Client ID, PayPal Secret.
You have to create account from Here and then you can find steps here to generate keys from Here or Here
Once you get the PayPal Client ID and PayPal Secret add the below keys to your env
file.
PAYPAL_CLIENT_ID=
PAYPAL_SECRET=
Setup Paystack Credentials
You have to create account from Here and then you can find steps here to generate sectet keys Here
Please use your email into Merchant Email
- PAYSTACK_PUBLIC_KEY=
- PAYSTACK_SECRET_KEY=
- PAYSTACK_PAYMENT_URL="https://api.paystack.co"
- PAYSTACK_MERCHANT_EMAIL=
DO NOT FORGET TO FOLLOW GIVEN STEP :
Also please set the redirect/callback URL to APP_URL/paystack-payment-success
from your paystack account.
Cron jobs Setup
Enable recurring invoices in cPanel. Here is the link by using it you will get an idea about how to set the cron for the recurring invoices.
4. Admin login
You can do admin login by accessing given URL.
YOUR_APP_URL/login
email: admin@infy-invoices.com
password: 123456