This is a lovely little tool. Very simple, does what it's supposed to do and no more.

To the developer: I'd recommend using a disk image instead of a zip file to distribute the app.

I've been evaluating nearly every invoicing/accounting package that would be suitable for a small consulting business, and SoftBooks is better than most. It certainly contains most of the *functionality* that I need.

However, there are two things that are essentials for me that make SoftBooks not right for me:

- I need to be able to completely customize an invoice for my company look & feel. As a former graphic designer, it drives me nuts to have someone else's idea of what *my* invoice should look like. Even an "export" function would be acceptable, so I can read the invoice data into another app to do the actual invoice.

- Customer/vendor data must integrate with Address Book. I refuse to retype all the contact info that I use everyday with Mail and other Address Book-aware apps. Address Book is a standard framework under OS X; there's no reason you can't pull records from there.

I also feel that SoftBooks needs some help in the UI department. It's clean, but nearly *too* clean -- it needs some tightening up of buttons & fields, and could use some separators in the forms to delineate, for example, the main invoice info from each invoice item info.

I'll watch this app to see if it improves over time.