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5 months ago Hi Jose!
While I understand the need for tracking accounting information, I really do think that adding accounting is out of scope for netbox-inventory. Same as NetBox itself which provides sufficient information for billing tenants as a single source of truth, the billing itself is left to business applications that have accounting and billing functionality and that interface with NetBox via API to retrieve said information. I personally think that netbox-inventory should also stay within the same scope: provide sufficient information about assets as a single source of truth but leave the rest to business applications that are specifically designed to do the task. Just my 2 €-cents.
Not sure if this would be part of the scope of the plugin but at a minimum I think order total cost (Currency/Qty) should be part of the model. Expanding on that each each purchase could be associated to a funding source; could be as simple as a free text field or more detailed like a new table with Funding Sources and details about them like contacts (POC, Approvers, Auditors, ...), Date range etc.. Which would allow to quickly get an idea of how budget you have available and how much have you used. And create custom reports.
I will be adding this as custom fields under a Finance/Accounting Section, but thought it may interest others.