Re: Anyone doing time and materials billing?

["David Mora" <..hidden..>]

Hi all!,

Turtle, sure that will be a great thing to see, i have some
contruction deployments

Merry XMASS to everyone

2008/12/24 turtle <..hidden..>:
> 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
>
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