Third question, service products.

[Xavier Olivella <xa...@xoli.cat>]

Hello guys,

I have another question, this one related to products.

We sell a kind of product that is an hour package, I mean, a customer
can purchase 10, 20 or 40 service hours in advance (getting a better
hour/price each time) and I need the following things:

- Invoice is made at purchase time
- Half-hour granularity
- As hours are getting done, we need some kind of document with customer
number, order number, date and number of hours "spent".
- Obviously package hour "countdown" must be modified.
- It's no necessary (but desirable) that customers can order it in the
web site.

I am thinking about doing this with product packages and different
shipping orders, but I'm not sure this is the best solution.

Any Idea?

Thanks a lot.

Re: Third question, service products.

[Xavier Olivella <xa...@xoli.cat>]

El dj 05 de 07 del 2007 a les 05:51 -0600, en/na David E Jones va
escriure:

> This is what the WorkEffort stuff is meant for, including time sheets, billing, etc.



Oh! great! I really didn't looked at this module yet, so I'll take a
look.


> Of course, for ANYTHING where you have very specific and inflexible business requirements and processes you're just not going to find something that is exactly everything you need. What you're describing can certainly be done with OFBiz (as with your other questions), but some customization is definitely required to automate what you're describing (unless you want to manage it manually).



Ok, thanks a lot for your help.

Re: Third question, service products.

[David E Jones <jo...@hotwaxmedia.com>]

This is what the WorkEffort stuff is meant for, including time sheets, billing, etc.

Of course, for ANYTHING where you have very specific and inflexible business requirements and processes you're just not going to find something that is exactly everything you need. What you're describing can certainly be done with OFBiz (as with your other questions), but some customization is definitely required to automate what you're describing (unless you want to manage it manually).

-David


Xavier Olivella wrote:
> Hello guys,
> 
> I have another question, this one related to products.
> 
> We sell a kind of product that is an hour package, I mean, a customer
> can purchase 10, 20 or 40 service hours in advance (getting a better
> hour/price each time) and I need the following things:
> 
> - Invoice is made at purchase time
> - Half-hour granularity
> - As hours are getting done, we need some kind of document with customer
> number, order number, date and number of hours "spent".
> - Obviously package hour "countdown" must be modified.
> - It's no necessary (but desirable) that customers can order it in the
> web site.
> 
> I am thinking about doing this with product packages and different
> shipping orders, but I'm not sure this is the best solution.
> 
> Any Idea?
> 
> Thanks a lot.
>