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Install InfyInvoices ​

Once you purchase InfyInvoices system then you will be able to find the zip named dist.zip.

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:

Copy files to web server ​

Upload dist.zip to your web server's root (public_html) and extract it there.

Default Database Setup ​

  1. Open PHPMyAdmin on your server and do a login.
  2. Click on the Databases tab.
  3. Create a new database and specify a Database name of your choice and Click Create button.
  4. Now on the left, select the database (infy_invoices) OR the one that you have created.
  5. Click Import in the top menu
  6. Under Import, choose the default sql file from dist/database/infy_invoices.sql and click button Go.

Environment Variables ​

Open .env file from your server's root folder.

Setup Default DB

You need to change the following information into your environment (.env) file.

App name and URL Setup ​

ini
APP_NAME="App Name"
APP_URL="https://your-domain.com"

Database Setup ​

ini
DB_HOST="DB Host here"
DB_PORT="3306" // this may changed as per your DB
DB_DATABASE="DB Name"
DB_USERNAME="DB Username"
DB_PASSWORD="DB Password"

Email Setup ​

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.

ini
MAIL_MAILER =
MAIL_HOST =
MAIL_PORT =
MAIL_USERNAME =
MAIL_PASSWORD =
MAIL_ENCRYPTION =
ADMIN_EMAIL =
MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS = "${ADMIN_EMAIL}"
MAIL_FROM_NAME = "${APP_NAME}"

Amazon S3 Storage Setup ​

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.

ini
FILESYSTEM_DRIVER=s3
MEDIA_DISK=s3
ini
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=
AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=
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.

Stripe Setup ​

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.

ini
STRIPE_KEY=
STRIPE_SECRET_KEY=
STRIPE_WEBHOOK_SECRET_KEY=

Razorpay Setup ​

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

ini
RAZORPAY_KEY=
RAZORPAY_SECRET=

PayPal Setup ​

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

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.

ini
PAYPAL_CLIENT_ID=
PAYPAL_SECRET=

Paystack Setup ​

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

ini
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.

How to setup cron job into Cpanel for Laravel ?

Admin login ​

You can do admin login by accessing given URL.

YOUR_APP_URL/login

Email: admin@infy-invoices.com

Password: 123456