I am interested if anyone is doing time and materials billing or project management? What about job costing, project management or contracting? In construction industry we are using "assemblies" as the base building block for a job then ending up with a parts & labor invoice (parts and services). This is because there is not a fixed price on our quote, it is only an estimate. So we use an assembly to pull in 100's of parts and hours of labor with just a few items. In construction it is customary for customers to need actual dates worked and lists of materials upon invoice so the assemblies are broken down upon becoming a order. Then what actually happens can be billed. However we don't have a blank check, workers are not allowed to continue after the alloted time is run out so there is a budget set for time cards. Time cards above budget are not allowed until the customer approves a order and it is added to the project. Timecards are then added to invoices and not used to generate new sales orders. Viewing a project (really a JOB) shows all open and closed quotes / orders / timecards and invoices plus projects have an address, permit and contact info. Is anyone else interested in this reversal of business logic? We also track all orders / invoices on a per job basis. If there is any interest I'll set up a demo site over the holiday. -- Cheers Turtle _________________________________________ FYI the .asc file is a digital signature see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy for more info.
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