New features proposal and asking

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Hi Hillel,

I’m getting back to you to propose some new features for Invoice Ninja.
I am working on a fork of the project, and I’d like to know if you were planning on working on one of these in a near future:

— I had talked to you about an invoice electronic signature at confirmation of a quote by a customer from his dashboard. Do you think you will add this feature anytime soon? http://willowsystems.github.io/jSignature/#/demo/

—Is it possible to choose if we edit an invoice at 100%, or a deposit invoice at 30% at confirmation of a quote by a customer, from his dashboard?
( i already asked on your Trello ! )

— Would it make sense to add the notion of “Projects”? A project could be a group of several tasks, quotes, invoices, etc… At least, a project could enable to categorize and group tasks.

-- CLIENT 
-------- PROJECT
-----------------QUOTE
-----------------TASK 
-----------------TASK 
-----------------TASK 
-----------------TASK 
-----------------INVOICE
-------- PROJECT
-----------------QUOTE
-----------------TASK 
-----------------INVOICE

Would it be possible to add:

— the option to create an amendment to a quote ?

— a simplified, and mobile version of the timer would be interesting

— the option to manage travel fees on an invoice ? May be possible now with vendors and expenses

— an “Update” tab when the source is to be updated?

— french date&time formats, such as day/month/year, 24h format, e.g. 29/09/2015 15h45 (24h)

Thanks a lot !
Best regards,
Wilhem

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Thanks for your great suggestions!

  • The electronic signature library looks great. It isn’t high on our priority list but if you’re able to get it working we’d definitely merge a pull request.

  • As of now this would require custom changes to the code. If you’re interested in working on it I can try to point you in the right direction.

  • We’re planning on adding Labels which could provide similar functionality https://trello.com/c/mdAGFKkp

  • Can you provide an example of what a quote with an amendment should look like?

  • We’re planning to implement the timer as a browser extension https://trello.com/c/9t8vEOWp, it’s possible we’ll be able to use this in a mobile solution. We’re also working on an iPhone (and then Android) app which should provide the best experience.

  • I think our new expenses module should work well for this.

  • We’re hoping to add this in a future release.

  • We curently use the strtotime PHP function so we’re a bit limited in the separators we can use http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php#100144

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You’re welcome Hillel, we love invoice ninja !

– The electronic signature library looks great. It isn’t high on our priority list but if you’re able to get it working we’d definitely merge a pull request.

> Ok we will.

– As of now this would require custom changes to the code. If you’re interested in working on it I can try to point you in the right direction.

> Ok great, i’ll speak about that to my dev, and we’ll keep you in touch.

– We’re planning on adding Labels which could provide similar functionality https://trello.com/c/mdAGFKkp

> Ok very nice !

– Can you provide an example of what a quote with an amendment should look like?

> I’m sorry if my english is bad ; i’ll try to explain to you.
First quote is 1000$ with 1 item.
Client need a new item / add-on / or expend the initial scope : extra charges of +500$.
Than, you have two solutions =
— 2 quotes, 1000$ + 500$, then 2 invoices.
— 1 initial quote 1000$, 1 amendment 500$, then 1 invoice of 2 quotes for 1500$

– We’re planning to implement the timer as a browser extension https://trello.com/c/9t8vEOWp, it’s possible we’ll be able to use this in a mobile solution. We’re also working on an iPhone (and then Android) app which should provide the best experience.

> ok !

– We’re hoping to add this in a future release.

> great !

– We curently use the strtotime PHP function so we’re a bit limited in the separators we can use http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php#100144

> ok

Thanks a lot,
Best regards,
Wilhem

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Thanks for the explanation of quote amendments.

With tasks we support adding tasks to open invoices, it’s possible we could support something similar for quotes.

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Ok thanks Hillel

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Hello,

I am looking for a small feature enhancement in the Client listing table, i.e. Phone Column. Is this already there or is there any way we can enable/disable columns we want to show in client listing table?

Thanks,
Nasir

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We don’t support showing/hiding columns.

If you want to modify the code here’s where the table columns are defined:

https://github.com/invoiceninja/invoiceninja/blob/master/app/Ninja/Datatables/ClientDatatable.php#L14

You’d also need to make sure the field is loaded here:

https://github.com/invoiceninja/invoiceninja/blob/master/app/Ninja/Repositories/ClientRepository.php#L42