Re: SQL-Ledger for a legal office

[Nique N. <ne...@ta...>]

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, you wrote:

> > 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?

Jeremy,

I'm currently working on translating data out of an MYOB system to sql 
ledger, so far I've managed to move a few of the tables with some problems, 
you could find this to be your biggest head ache, but there are always drugs 
to fix that problem...

It may be quicker to write a patch for this, if you come up with one I would 
dearly like to know.. because if you don't discover one or do it yourself 
then I'll be onto it soon, as soon as I learn perl, postgres, etc, etc...

Regards,

Nicholas Tomlin.