Re: [ANN] Org Invoice 1.0.0

[Peter Jones <mlists@pmade.com>]

Ulf Stegemann <ulf-news@zeitform.de> writes:
> If you plan to expand your package I'd have suggestions for it:
> Currently, times are always given as hours and rates as hourly rates. 
> This is fine for a collection of smaller tasks. For projects it's much
> more common to use person days, -weeks or -months. So it would be nice
> if one could choose between these calculation schemes (or if the best
> scheme would be chosen automatically). NB that it's quite common that a
> person day is not hourly rate times eight, so different rates would be
> necessary, too. And while we are at it, a column that indicates the rate
> used would be fine.
>
> Another nice feature would be to have invoice items with a fixed price,
> i.e. where the price is not calculated based on work or clock time.
> Imagine e.g. hardware sold along with IT services or things like that.
>
> Those things are rather ideas than feature requests but nevertheless, I
> thought I'll let you know as I think org-invoice has quite a good
> potential, e.g. I can imagine that it's not only handy for actual
> invoices but also for project planning, cost estimates, bids and all
> other things where a cost component is involved.

Great ideas Ulf, thanks.  I've started a TODO file for org-invoice
(using Org of course).  I'll probably be adding new features to it after
the new year.

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Peter Jones, http://pmade.com
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