Hi,
This seems a good one :)
As I can see, this is similar or could be used for recurring services, like
rent a virtual machine (monthly), a domain (yearly or two years), workstation
(monthly) etc.
Example real life scenario could be handy to see.
One example:
rent a service, monthly fee, not for fixed period -> like renting a virtual
machine or a hosted ledgersmb, without time limit -> it ends when the customer
cancel his subscription, for example 30 days before,
rent a car for a year, monthly fee, fixed 1 year period
house cleaning until cancellation (similar to the first one) - monthly
accounting service - monthly
rent a smartphone :)
Are these examples suitable for the idea?
Of course, some of the situation there are fixed assets units (computer, phone,
car, building, whatever), in other cases not.
Cheers,
István
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Feladó: "Chris Travers" [email protected]
Címzett: "Development discussion for LedgerSMB"
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Dátum: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 02:47:28 -0800
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>
>
>Hi everyone,
>
>
>
>I am beginning work on an add-on for 1.4 regarding tracking rental equipment,
>etc. I
>wanted to toss my ideas in here for feedback.
>
>
>
>MODELLING
>
>
>
>I think the best way to model this would be to track rentals against fixed
>assets. I.e.
>you rent out a fixed asset, and this should allow you to do more fine-grained
>profit/loss
>reporting on individual rentals than otherwise possible.
>
>
>
>So my thinking is that you would have:
>
>
>
>Fixed assets -> multiple "rental slots" (i.e. "units" available for rental).
>For
>example, a building might be available to be rented for x events, but a piece
>of construction
>equipment might be available to be rented only once at a time.
>
>
>
>Rental slot -> Service. Each rental slot would be associated any number of
>services.
>This could be changed over time to include more services, but for now I only
>expect to support
>a 1:1 mapping in the front-end
>
>
>
>Rental slot -> Usage Contract. Each rental slot can be associated with any
>number of
>usage contracts, but only one at a time.
>
>
>
>Usage contract - Service. The contract would contain all the information
>needed to
>fill out a line in the invoice and ar tables. A contract would be assumed to
>match to one line in
>orderitems or invoices.
>
>
>
>WORKFLOW
>
>
>
>1. Adding Rental Slots:
>
> a. Rentals/Manage Slots
>
> b. Enter asset tag, continue
>
> c. Add slots as needed (number, label, services) and save
>
>d. Slots can be retired here as well (basically an end date would be added).
>
>
>
>2. Renting Unit.
>
> a. Rentals/Rent
>
> b. Search for customer, enter asset tag, start and end dates
>
> c. Select available slot
>
> d. Enter information and save
>
>
>
>3. Return of rental
>
> a. Rentals/Search
>
> b. Enter asset tag, date, and/or customer information. Search
>
> c. Enter date of return, check "Returned" and save.
>
>d. If desired you can also click "bill," "generate order" or "renew" (in which
>case a new
>usage contract will be created).
>
>
>
>INTERFACES
>
>
>
>
>SQL and Perl Interfaces:
>
>
>
>1. Wrapped in Asset/Rental.pm class:
>
> asset__list_rental_slots(in_id)
>
> asset__list_rental_slots_by_tag(in_tag)
>
>
>
>2. Wrapped in Asset/Rental/Slot.pm
>
> rental_slot__list_services(in_id)
>
> rental_slot__add(...)
>
> rental_slot__search(...)
>
> rental_slot__retire(...)
>
>
>
>3. Wrapped in Asset/Rental/Contract.pm
>
> rental_contract__add(...)
>
> rental_contract__renew(...)
>
> rental_contract__generate_order(...)
>
> rental_contract__bill(...)
>
>
>
>DEPENDENCIES
>
>
>
>PostgreSQL 9.2 (needed for range types and exclude constraints)
>
>PGObject::Simple::Role 1.1 (not out yet, will probably be out tomorrow)
>
>PGObject::Simple 1.6
>
>PGObject::Util::DBMethod 1.0
>
>
>--
>
>Best Wishes,
>
>Chris Travers
>
>
>
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