Re: [Gnumed-devel] Billing/invoicing for GNUmed - ideas wanted

[Karsten Hilbert]

That is a good plan.

On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 02:53:08PM +0200, Hilbert, Sebastian wrote:

> Here is what can potentially be accomplished with Lx-Office and maybe sql-
> ledger or ledger-smb.
> 
> 1.) Via submit button or menu item new invoice GNUmed could check in the lx-
> office database whether or not a client exists and if not create it via 
> command line in the background.
> 
> 2.) I could then start a browser such as Firefox and send you to the page 
> inside lx-office where you can create and invoice. Lx-office will let you 
> save 
> that as a draft and let you recall it to add items. How much of this can be 
> automated is yet to be seen.
> 
> 3.) Via submit button or menu item produce invoice it will take you to the 
> draft page and let you book the invoice, effectively booking it to an account 
> and giving you the option to print a pdf of it.
> 
> 4.) Another button or menu item could send you to the list of open invoices 
> and whatnot for either that patient or all patients. this can either be done 
> inside lx-office in the browser or one could write a plugin for that which is 
> not recommended as it would replicate the UI without giving any obvious 
> benefit. For die hards the lx-office database can be queried directly.
> 
> 5.) A fifth item would take you to lx-office to mark it as paid once you have 
> received compensation.

Karsten
-- 
GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net
E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD  4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346