[Web-erp-developers] Intro & Questions

[Jesse P. <jes...@st...>]

Hello all. I've been looking over web-erp and similar opensource apps =
for some days now and have decided this one is best suited for my =
current needs. Of course I have many, many more, so I will certainely be =
developing against it. If I have to do that, it would certainley seem =
best if it could help out the project too. The top 3 items I am =
concerned about in it's current state are Serialisable Items, Usage =
based billing, and extended Sales Functionality (with some notes on each =
below).
I don't want to duplicate efforts, so I'm wondering what is planned for =
those 3 areas, the top priorities the current developers have, and if =
there are any other plans already set out. I've seen the Phil Daintree =
has asked people before to send source straight to him - if I do, do you =
want the full PHP files, or diffs?

k, here goes...=20

A couple Quickies...
* SelectOrderItems.php =3D>  Lookup by Cust Name does not seem to work =
in 2.8 or 2.9
* I noticed discussions of PDF libs to use - my 2 cents is that R&OS is =
the best opensource one for php that I've worked with.

My Top 3....
* Individual Stock Items w/ Barcode (=3D serial no/mac addr/etc)
-------[I see it's been started]--------------
PO_Items.php:if ($hide_incomplete_features =3D=3D False)    {
PO_Items.php:if ($hide_incomplete_features=3D=3DFalse)      {
Stocks.php:                     if ($hide_incomplete_features=3D=3DTrue) =
{
Stocks.php:if ($hide_incomplete_features=3D=3DFalse) {
SupplierInvoice.php:if ($hide_incomplete_features=3D=3DFalse) {
----------------------------------------------
* More Sales Functions?=20
	- SalesGroups (that contain Persons/agents).
	- Let them do acct mgmt of their customers. ie,
		+ Agent could view his customers accounts & submit orders, but not all =
Group accounts.=20
		+ Groups of course could view all of their Agents' accounts

* Saw a mention of Utility Billing - anything to look at? That should be =
what I know as 'Usage Based' billing. I'm quite interested in that. =
Further thoughts - with Utility/Usage billing you generally need some =
very granular access to each Item. For example, I live in the telecom =
world and would want something like:
	- Travel Card: I consider this a Telephone Calling Card where someone =
is Post billed, ie. they make calls for the month and are billed for =
their usage.
		+ If I talk to that customer, there is a good chance I will need to =
look at the calls they've been making, so I would want to be able to =
write some sort of module to 'Maintain' the Travel Card Item. There =
probably would need to be a way to create Credit Notes for Usage as =
well, then, so I could 'credit calls'
... that's one of the most simple cases...

Other Ponderings....
* DB Independence - I don't care, but why not ADODB to help that?
* Template support, just to clean up code?



Thanks for you time.


jesse