Day 41 - A Hard Decision

Yesterday, I decided to rip apart the Sales/Sale Items module of misvCRM because I was not exactly pleased with the process of recording a product sale especially in situations wherein there is more than one item sold e.g. CD backup or software assurance. In essence the Sales/Sale Items module is actually an invoicing module except that it is used after a sale has been done e.g. the user receives a confirmation email from his or her payment processor such as PayPal or Share It etc. The flow of recording a sale was not smooth and this annoyed me. In order to make the user experience more I had to change it so that its use is more intuitive and requires less mouse clicks as well.

The other thing that was in my mind was being able to record a group sale or when a company orders more than one licence and provides names for the different licence holders. The current version did not cater for this situation which was pointed out by someone who has downloaded the pre-release version of misvCRM a couple of weeks ago.

I know that this decision might impact on the proposed release date at the end of the month and it is something I have to adjust if needed. I think one has to find a balance between being able to release early for the first version and the quality of the product. I already have entries slated for version 2.0 even before I finish version 1.0! I have already given some thought on how to implement this new change and I am confident that the end of the month is still a possibility.

Here is a screenshot on how the Invoice detail page looks like:

At the end of the day I’m actually much happier with this layout than the original one. Now, gotta get back to coding and making sure it works