I had a large company that wanted to buy a copy of PainlessSVN. They have a very convoluted buying process. I was down to the last step, which was to send an invoice. Here's where things broke down...

I had initiated a purchase order process through FastSpring. Unfortunately, this customers pays using SWIFT transfers, which FastSpring doesn't handle at this time. This meant that the purchase order and invoices that I had sent would not work for this customer. They needed an invoice that was initiated from SystemWidgets, instead of FastSpring.

Enter Zoho Apps. I had created an account with them early this year, but had totally forgotten about it. I signed up for their free account. I went and looked, and lo and behold, they now have an invoicing app. I setup the info in about 2 minutes. Then took me about another 2 minutes to setup the invoice. That was mostly because I had to hunt down the billing address for the customer, and also enter information on PainlessSVN itself.

So total time from login to sent invoice: 4 minutes. I'm impressed!

Zoho Apps has a bunch other web applications that I didn't notice before. Time to explore!