[Vtigercrm-developers] Selling Subscription Services

[Rodrigo Souza]

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*Rodrigo Souza de Oliveira*

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> On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Alan Lord <alanslists at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> 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?
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>> No?
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>> See here: http://lists.vtigercrm.com/pipermail/vtigercrm-
>> developers/2012-March/021973.html
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>> This has just come up again.
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>> A telecoms business sells various things:
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>> * Hardware like Phone systems, handsets, cabling etc.,
>> * Installation type services (one off cost),
>> * Recurring services like Line rental, Hire Purchase/Lease fees etc.
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>> 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).
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>> There is still no way to handle this from what I can tell without major
>> surgery.
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>> 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.
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>> The really good bit is this information also needs to be accessible in
>> the Reports. :-)
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>> New UIType perhaps?
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>> Suggestions welcome.
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>> Cheers
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>> Al
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