Installation on Windows and macOS

Packages for Windows and macOS. Both install a self-contained application; no runtime needs to be present.

Windows

An Inno Setup package (InvoiceflairDesktopSetup-<version>.exe), default directory C:\Program Files\Invoiceflair\Desktop, a wizard in nine languages, an optional desktop shortcut.

Uninstalling asks first

Namely whether the local data should be removed as well — the settings, the stored licence and the folder-sync journal. Deleting without asking would be wrong: anyone merely updating, or removing the program by accident, would lose along with the licence the one-off trial licence of that workstation.

Your invoices and folders are never touched.

macOS

An app bundle plus a PKG installation package, for Apple silicon (osx-arm64) and Intel (osx-x64), installing to /Applications.

Code signing is still open

Both platforms warn on first start

Platform	Current position	Consequence
Windows	no code signature	SmartScreen warns on first start
macOS	ad-hoc signature only, no Developer ID, no notarisation	Gatekeeper warns; on Apple silicon a wholly unsigned bundle will not start at all

Both are prerequisites for the application starting without a warning on someone else’s machine, and neither has yet been done. This needs planning for distribution through a software deployment system.

Notes for software deployment

• What is shipped is a publish folder, not a single file. A single file unpacks itself to %TEMP% on start, and that is precisely what domain policies such as AppLocker forbid on customer systems.
• The eight language satellites must be in the package. The build scripts check this and abort otherwise — without that check, a single-language package would only surface at the customer, and there as “the translation is missing” rather than as a build fault.
• The application writes nothing next to the program files. What it retains sits in the user profile: settings and the licence in settings.json, the folder sync journal in the SQLite file beside it.

If the application does not start

Then a boot-crash.log sits in the same folder as the settings — the first file to look at.

After installation

Next, activate the licence — online once, after which everything runs offline.