Re: [Tiki-devel] Started work on Tiki Invoices

[Marc L. <mar...@ti...>]

Hi Robert!

This is awesome!

About name overlap: current invoice file is for payment system.

I think there should be an 'invoice' feature and appropriate
permissions, etc and it should plug into 'payment', 'accounting' and
an eventual 'time sheet' feature

In the past, I have found that something like Tiki invoice should be a
dedicated feature vs using trackers. Perhaps the new flexibility of
trackers will change all this.

Since there are so many freelancers in Tiki, I predict plenty of dogfood!

Thanks!

M :-)

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Robert Plummer
<rob...@gm...> wrote:
> Hey Guys,
> So the work with trackers is all well and good, but the end result isn't
> just to make trackers faster, and more flexible, but to make them more
> extendible (ie, api).  For this reason I started putting together "Tiki
> Invoices" as a good use case for this very thing.  We can probably change
> the name before I commit it because I know there is a bit of conflict in
> naming with sending an invoice for tiki payments.  Admins, let me know.
> What I started to do is copy the very simple table structure that Bamboo
> Invoices has.  I plan on using inspiration from how Bamboo Invoice is laid
> out for TIki Invoices but not copy anything directly.  Because the
> application is so simple, it should make seeing how we should extend
> trackers for 8 and best help us create the Tracker API that we've been
> hoping for.  Also, I can't stand using an outside system for entering
> invoices, as I use Bamboo Invoices.  I think this simple app will help the
> tiki community very much and I can't wait to use it myself, as soon as it
> becomes something even remotely usable, I'd like to make it a profile and a
> feature.  One key feature that I think will help us is a "Re-invoice" type
> Item, where it can be attached or sent to another invoice, and thus
> re-invoiced to the client.  Making management of application development
> much easier, because, well, we'd get paid :).  And we'd spend less time
> managing invoices, and more time developing :).  Another type of feature I'd
> like to add is a sort of live invoice, where you start on a project, and end
> it at a given time (like check in, check out).  Thus being able to count
> your hours accordingly.
>
> Tiki adds many complexities when it comes to managing trackers.  I'd like to
> make that as simple as possible with this app, and keep the bulk of the work
> in trackerlib, that way not only does it show developers how to integrate
> into tiki, but also, it lets us know how we should create the api.
>
> Anyway, just fyi.  What are some features you'd like to see in this app?
>
> --
> Robert Plummer
>



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