SQL-Ledger for a legal office

[Jeremy M. <Je...@Ma...>]

I'm a lawyer from Australia and I run my office entirely on open source
software.  Well, almost.  The last package that I am using that is
proprietary is Quickbooks Pro, for accounting.  I am wanting to make the
move to SQL-Ledger.  However, there are some apparent omissions from
SQL-Ledger that will make the move difficult:

* It is imperative that separate matters or jobs be defined for each
  client.  The only way to accomodate this would be either to record an
  "order" for each matter (but this is not really acceptable, because we
  need to send out multiple bills on a single matter), or to record each
  new matter as a separate client (but this is not acceptable, because
  we need to then re-key all the client details for each matter they
  open).

* Lawyers record their time in 6 minute units.  We need some way to
  integrate a time tracking program (eg. gtt) into SQL-Ledger so that we
  can import the time entries directly into an invoice, the way that
  Quickbooks Pro does with its timer application.

There are others, but these are the main ones.  Does anyone have any
workarounds for this functionality, or do I just have to wait, or write
a patch?

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