[Vtigercrm-developers] Selling Subscription Services

[Sreenivas Kanumuru]

 <http://vtiger.com/>

> Unfortunately we have a go live date for a new customer at the end of
> June so we will need to do something to resolve this before then. How do
> you suggest we approach this? It doesn't seem to be something we can
> achieve through vtlib so we'll probably need to modify core code to add
> support for subscription sales.


for now, i would recommend your suggestion of creating a separate SO for
each service, and add custom fields to the SO to track the start and end
dates.


On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 2:00 AM, Alan Lord (News) <alanslists at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 21/03/12 22:14, Sreenivas Kanumuru wrote:
> >
> > You are right. Service Contract might be too heavy for just tracking a
> > couple of fields (start and end date). But, if you want to track more
> > details about the service (example, tickets or tasks related to the
> > service) then creating a Contract might be better.
>
> That makes sense, as long as the Contract's relation to the Sale Order
> can be readily "discovered" by the users.
>
> >     Personally, I think the "right" way would be to provide the admin
> user a
> >     way to be able to choose some number of custom fields (of whatever
> type)
> >     they have added to a product/service module to be displayed *in* the
> >     line item block of the Quote/SO/PO/Invoice etc... (I'm visualising
> this
> >     in the same way the description box is presented now.
>
> Of course, I should have said here it might be that the user wants to
> use one or more fields (they might be custom or standard ones). It
> shouldn't be just for custom fields.
>
> > This is nice feature to have (show custom fields in line items). We are
> > beginning work on major UI changes which we hope to release as part of
> > vtiger 6 in July/Aug timeframe. We'll review to see if this feature can
> > be included as part of the release.
>
> Thanks and that is interesting.
>
> Unfortunately we have a go live date for a new customer at the end of
> June so we will need to do something to resolve this before then. How do
> you suggest we approach this? It doesn't seem to be something we can
> achieve through vtlib so we'll probably need to modify core code to add
> support for subscription sales.
>
> > We'll share more details on the vtiger 6 plans in April, after the 5.4
> > is released.
>
> I look forward to reading about it!
>
> Thanks
>
> Alan
>
>
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