[Vtigercrm-developers] Selling Subscription Services

Doug sailsfast at gmail.com
Sat Jul 5 13:39:21 GMT 2014


Agreed... +100

Doug Gouty

Sent from my phone. I apologize in advance for the brevity or any
misspellings
On Jul 5, 2014 9:34 AM, "Rodrigo Souza" <rodrigo at hostplan.com.br> wrote:

> +1
>
> Atte,
> *Rodrigo Souza de Oliveira*
>
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> 2014-07-04 23:41 GMT-03:00 Siam Translations LLP <
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>> +1
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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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