Automatic WWW invoices

[joereddington]

writing it out for a second time

The invoicing system for White Water Writers is painfully manual and I don't like doing it.

I've been working on autoamtically creating invoices for clients.

The current stage is that a script reads the list of open camps and groups the ones for each client. It then produces a latex file for each. This file has to be manually compiled, but it's better than was.

The goal

I want a script that automatically 'ties off' the current invoice. It should take a purchase order as input, create the finalised invoice and move it to a archive location, and then update the invoice number for the new blank invoice that is arriving.

Plan

• [ ] Invoice number should be seperately input into files
• [ ] the current invoice should be updated by cron
• [ ] fixed the bug where slugs (like "HH") match parts of longer slugs "HH_done"
• [ ] write the 'tie-of' script
  • Read the invoice number
  • copy the file to the invoice number
  • increment the invoice number
  • add the purchase order before compilation
  • modify the list of camps

[joereddington]

I need to rewrite the code for this because dreamhost messed it up. Very vexing, much annoying - and my fault for not putting it in the cloud.

[joereddington]

I mean, we've not invoiced anyone for a bit so this can wait...

[joereddington]

Is this still valid if we are using Quickbooks for all our ordering? I think it's a rewrite....