Day 8 of 30

On the eight day…

A few more features were added such as subscriptions and discounts. I’m currently working on the sales and sale items feature. The subscriptions feature manages subscription purchases. I initially thought of including this information in the sale item table but in the end decided against it. The discounts feature are for those products that attract a discount voucher or coupon. For this feature, I could have left to the user to simply specify the discount rate during the sale record creation but I tried to cover the situation where there are several discount coupons for a product because of a marketing campaign etc.

Another feature I added was having an alert/message/notification window pop-up when the application starts. The purpose of this window is to inform the user of the important things that need to be done for the day. Examples of items appearing in the alert window can be: producing or generating the billing report for the month; producing invoices for clients of subscription mode etc; activities marked as urgent etc. Here is a screenshot of the Alert window. This window can also be displayed by selecting the appropriate menu option.

After I finish the sales and sales items feature I can then move on to the enquiry area which I think is the part of misvCRM that should give the user the greatest benefit. In this area the user should have a 360-degree view of his/her client. The enquiry window should be able to show in a single glance to the user client details such as purchases, licence keys or licence numbers, requests for support and bug reports, etc.