Ulf Stegemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you plan to expand your package I'd have suggestions for it: > Currently, times are always given as hours and rates as hourly rates. > This is fine for a collection of smaller tasks. For projects it's much > more common to use person days, -weeks or -months. So it would be nice > if one could choose between these calculation schemes (or if the best > scheme would be chosen automatically). NB that it's quite common that a > person day is not hourly rate times eight, so different rates would be > necessary, too. And while we are at it, a column that indicates the rate > used would be fine. > > Another nice feature would be to have invoice items with a fixed price, > i.e. where the price is not calculated based on work or clock time. > Imagine e.g. hardware sold along with IT services or things like that. > > Those things are rather ideas than feature requests but nevertheless, I > thought I'll let you know as I think org-invoice has quite a good > potential, e.g. I can imagine that it's not only handy for actual > invoices but also for project planning, cost estimates, bids and all > other things where a cost component is involved.
Great ideas Ulf, thanks. I've started a TODO file for org-invoice (using Org of course). I'll probably be adding new features to it after the new year. -- Peter Jones, http://pmade.com pmade inc. Louisville, CO US _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
