[Vtigercrm-developers] Selling Subscription Services

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On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Alan Lord <alanslists at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Remember way back when in March 2012 I kicked of a discussion about the
> limitations of handling subscription/rental services in Quotes, Sales
> Orders and Invoices?
>
> No?
>
> See here: http://lists.vtigercrm.com/pipermail/vtigercrm-
> developers/2012-March/021973.html
>
> This has just come up again.
>
> A telecoms business sells various things:
>
> * Hardware like Phone systems, handsets, cabling etc.,
> * Installation type services (one off cost),
> * Recurring services like Line rental, Hire Purchase/Lease fees etc.
>
> These third items have to go on the Quote and be propagated through to the
> Sales Order and Invoice. But these types of items have a frequency (i.e
> monthly) and a term (i.e. 24 months).
>
> There is still no way to handle this from what I can tell without major
> surgery.
>
> Can the devs suggest a way to extend vtiger (6.1) so this can be handled
> properly? I'm thinking some kind of extension module that extends the
> Services module (or build a new one) that becomes available as a line item
> in the Quote/SO/Inv and offers the user the ability to enter the frequency
> and term when they are building the quote.
>
> The really good bit is this information also needs to be accessible in the
> Reports. :-)
>
> New UIType perhaps?
>
> Suggestions welcome.
>
> Cheers
>
> Al
>
>
>
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