[Gnumed-devel] Billing/invoicing for GNUmed - ideas wanted

[Sebastian Hilbert]

Hi all,

Here is what can potentially be accomplished with Lx-Office and maybe sql-
ledger or ledger-smb.

1.) Via submit button or menu item new invoice GNUmed could check in the lx-
office database whether or not a client exists and if not create it via 
command line in the background.

2.) I could then start a browser such as Firefox and send you to the page 
inside lx-office where you can create and invoice. Lx-office will let you save 
that as a draft and let you recall it to add items. How much of this can be 
automated is yet to be seen.

3.) Via submit button or menu item produce invoice it will take you to the 
draft page and let you book the invoice, effectively booking it to an account 
and giving you the option to print a pdf of it.

4.) Another button or menu item could send you to the list of open invoices 
and whatnot for either that patient or all patients. this can either be done 
inside lx-office in the browser or one could write a plugin for that which is 
not recommended as it would replicate the UI without giving any obvious 
benefit. For die hards the lx-office database can be queried directly.

5.) A fifth item would take you to lx-office to mark it as paid once you have 
received compensation.

Any input , ideas, questions are welcome.

Sebastian