[Vtigercrm-developers] Selling Subscription Services... (Again)

[Prasad]

>
> Gitlab CE has a Wiki which would be a really good place for design
> discussions and initial documentation but vtiger haven't enabled it by the
> looks of it...


Sorry too many places to follow up / monitor! Issues (with tag) should
suffice for now.

Regards,
Prasad

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On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 4:48 PM, Alan Lord <alanslists at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 02/02/16 10:42, Sutharsan Jeganathan wrote:
>
>> Hi Alan
>>
>> I am planning to develop a solution of simple service management linked
>> to SO, Services and Service Contracts.  I am thinking to push this into
>> code.vtiger.com <http://code.vtiger.com>.  Appreciate your comments here
>> if you have any ideas
>>
>
> Oh yes - lots :-)
>
> It's not easy; but I never said it was.
>
> 1. A Quote needs to be able to list multiple items that have different
> options:
>    * Frequency of billing (This is actually quite complex as you also need
> to be able to say, not only "monthly", "quarterly" etc. but also you need
> to be able to say things like "Billed on last Friday of Month, last working
> day of Month, last calendar day etc..)
>    * Duration of subscription
>    * Start date
>
> These then need to be removed from the "total" of the quote as they do not
> really make sense in this case - as they are recurring.
>
> Once a Quote is accepted, this information needs to be able to be
> propagated to Sales Orders and Invoices.
>
> There also needs to be support for automatic generation of Invoices based
> in individual line items from the Sales Order.
>
> There also needs to be some logic to handle things like Leap years and
> public holidays... Which needs to be configurable as each country is
> different.
>
> I said it's complicated ;-)
>
> However, this really is *not* an unusual requirement. Lots of businesses
> sell subscriptions to services _and_ products so other solutions must have
> already been developed to satisfy this need.
>
> I suggest, if there is enough interest, that it would be a good project to
> design and then build collaboratively on code.vtiger.com?
>
> Gitlab CE has a Wiki which would be a really good place for design
> discussions and initial documentation but vtiger haven't enabled it by the
> looks of it...
>
>
> Al
>
>
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