8 Commits

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
johnnyq	26437daa44	AI stage 4: Billing use case falling back to General; Write it with AI on quotes and invoices whose lines can still change - say what it is for and AI picks lines from the product catalog at catalog prices and frequency, labor in quarter hours at the client's rate, and anything else unpriced for the agent to set (AI never sets a price), with a suggested scope, client note and pre-send checks, optionally using the quote's ticket and the client's people, sites and devices (ticket and documentation only with Support); ticked lines added through billing_ai_lines, taxed by kind, scope and note kept on request, lines that can't go on listed; Write it on the ticket Invoice window describes the work done from replies and notes for the client under the usual ticket line, passwords never sent nor written back; new functions/ai_billing.php, ai_billing_draft and ai_ticket_invoice_description endpoints, billing_ai_writer modal, billing_draft and invoice_description features; callAiApi remove mode also strips made-up secret placeholders; changelog	2026-10-20 21:23:52 -04:00
johnnyq	afaaa5fc32	Taxes stage 1: Admin > Taxes rebuilt (renamed from Tax Rates) listing each rate with its whole percent, parts, description, registration number and usage (invoices, quotes, recurring invoices, products, clients), Current and Archived tabs showing what replaced a rate, Restore, Make default, and Delete only for a rate never used; rates made of parts (state and county, GST and QST) with parts charged on top of the ones above, the whole rate shown as typed, four decimal places and a registration number per rate or part printed with the company details on invoices, quotes and PDFs; changing the percent or parts of a rate on a sent invoice or quote makes a new rate of the same name and archives the old one, so billed lines keep the old rate while products, client rates, the default, recurring invoices and optionally drafts move to the new one, and archiving offers to move whatever still uses it; How lines are taxed settings for the default rate, taxing billed time, trips and expenses, and discounts taken off before tax (on by default, shared across lines by amount, paid, cancelled and answered documents never recalculated); clients get their own tax rate and tax exempt with certificate number and expiry on the Billing tab, new lines defaulting to the client's rate then the product's then the default and to no tax for exempt clients, exempt badge on the client header and overview, a warning with Take the tax off on open documents that still carry taxed lines for an exempt client, and Tax exempt with the certificate under the client on untaxed documents; totals, PDFs, guest and portal views show tax by part; Unbilled Time can bill at each client's usual rate and the ticket, Add Tickets, Add Expenses and Add Trips windows start on it; API client fields for rate and exemption and tax_id default on invoice item create; Tax Collected shows exact percents; demo taxes get parts and registration numbers, demo clients their rates and two nonprofits exemptions; database 3.1.1 makes tax_percent decimal(9,4) and adds tax description, registration and replaced-by, tax_components, client rate and exemption columns and the tax settings; new functions/tax.php and js/tax_form.js; changelog updated	2026-10-17 13:00:54 -04:00
johnnyq	a2a0823163	Trips stage 2: mileage money - Trips and Mileage in Admin > Settings > Invoice with miles or kilometers, the rate an agent is paid back for their own vehicle and the expense category it goes under, and what a trip bills a client as a trip charge, a rate a mile beyond the distance the charge covers and the invoice line name; the trip form has In their own vehicle starting as the driver's latest trip and Bill the client starting as the ticket is billable, each showing what it pays back or bills; the list gets To pay back and To bill pills, an owed card (Owed to you for agents without financial access), who is owed what and marks on each row; Pay Mileage pays one driver for the ticked trips at the usual or a past rate as a mileage expense per client paid personally by them under the mileage category to a Mileage vendor made on first use, paid back there and then from an account or later with Reimburse; Unbilled Time has Travel to bill beside the expenses at an editable price going on the client's invoice with their tickets and expenses, billing every client includes trips and Not billable writes them off; the invoice gets a Travel card with Add Trips and Take off Invoice, and deleting the line or invoice makes a trip to bill again; paid back and billed trips keep their distance, driver, vehicle, client and billable and can't be deleted, and deleting the mileage expense puts its trips back to pay; bulk Set Vehicle, Set Billable and Pay Mileage; the trip quick look shows what it pays back and bills and the mileage expense lists its trips; dashboard Trips to bill and Mileage to pay back, client overview Trips to bill and the Unbilled Time count include trips; export Vehicle, Paid Back and Billing columns; the Mileage report and dashboard chart follow the unit and the report rate starts at the mileage rate; demo data with recent trips in own vehicles and billable when trips bill; database 3.0.4 with trip_own_vehicle, trip_expense_id, trip_billable, trip_invoice_id, trip_invoice_item_id and the mileage and trip billing settings; CHANGELOG updated	2026-10-16 20:35:51 -04:00
johnnyq	8d5e5091ad	Expenses stage 3: billable expenses and pass-through costs - mark an expense for a client billable with a markup (default in Admin > Settings > Invoice), expenses to bill sit beside the time in Unbilled Time and go on a new or draft invoice with the tickets as a line each at a price that can be changed, the invoice gets an Expenses card with cost against billed and the margin plus an Add Expenses window, taking one off or deleting its line or invoice makes it to bill again (paid invoices keep it, cancelled ones keep the line), the quick look and list link billed expenses to their invoice with To bill and Billed pills and Bulk Set Billable, recurring expenses can be billed on each time or covered by one of the client's recurring invoices with a Costs card showing the monthly margin, expenses to bill counted in the menu, dashboard and client overview, export Billing and Billed On columns, demo data with recent client expenses to bill, database 3.0.1	2026-10-16 18:36:43 -04:00
johnnyq	775edc53d8	Products makeover stage 1: products and services with cost and margin, the vendor they are bought from with its part number, internal notes and default billing of one time, monthly, quarterly or yearly per user or per device that fills in Billed on quotes and Counted on recurring invoices, a per-product Track stock switch so only tracked items move stock and refuse to be invoiced past the shelf while untracked ones are ordered as needed, rebuilt Products list with what catalog lines bring in each month on recurring, sales over 90 days with the top seller and stock value at cost, tabs for Services, Products, Recurring and Stocked, a vendor filter and part number search, a new product page with price, margin, 12 month sales, monthly recurring, stock with recent moves, recurring invoices, open quotes, invoices and history tabs, inline notes and Copy, one New and Edit window with live margin, rebuilt Add Stock, import by column heading with update by code for price lists, export with cost, margin, billing, vendor, part number and stock, agent-only margin on invoices, quotes and recurring invoices, a Products tab on our vendors' pages, search results opening the product page, billing defaults in the starter catalog and costs and vendors in the demo data. Fixes bulk Restore of archived products doing nothing, deleted products leaving stock behind, Add Stock recording zero units or a missing expense, and a backslash before an apostrophe in agent names in billing history. Adds DB 2.9.4 with product cost, vendor, part number, notes, frequency, seat source and track stock set for products with stock history plus product keys on line and stock tables, functions/products.php with productSave() as the one write path, productUsage() and billingMargin(), agent/product.php, a shared product_form.php, copy_product and product_set_notes handlers, removes product_model.php, and updates the 26.11 changelog	2026-10-16 15:23:05 -04:00
johnnyq	1a51fc8dd6	Invoices, quotes and recurring invoices makeover stage 3: Unbilled Time page under Billing and in each client's menu with a count, listing every client's billable resolved or closed tickets not yet invoiced with time logged, hours to bill, rate, amount and oldest waiting, invoicing many clients at once onto a new draft each or each one's newest draft, and per client reviewing each ticket's hours before billing onto a new or existing draft with a line per ticket or one for all, live totals, and Not billable to write tickets off, Billing Time settings under Admin Settings Invoice for rounding to 6, 12, 15 or 30 minutes or the hour, nearest or always up, a per-ticket minimum and the line name, defaulting to the nearest 15 minutes, rebuilt ticket Invoice window showing time by agent, hours to bill and the client or default rate with add-to-draft and an open ticket warning, Add Tickets on an invoice now adds lines for the tickets' time with an option to attach without lines, client overview, dashboard and Unbilled Work report linking to it and counting unbilled time the same way, ticket billing written to ticket history instead of an internal note, invoices from tickets and copies due on the client's terms including On Receipt. Fixes ticket invoice line placed near the top of existing invoices, a ticket billable twice from two windows, no rate when the client had none set, and no hours filled in for tickets with 100 hours or more. Adds DB 2.9.2, billingTimeInvoice() as the one billing path with ticket claiming, billingUnbilledSql() and related helpers, unbilled_invoice, unbilled_invoice_clients and unbilled_write_off handlers, js/unbilled_time.js, and updates the 26.11 changelog	2026-10-16 13:42:06 -04:00
johnnyq	422088fb60	Invoices, quotes and recurring invoices makeover stage 2: per user, per device and per license recurring lines that take their quantity from the client's contacts (all or tagged), devices (ticked types or tagged, lost/stolen/retired left out) or a license's seats (in use or bought), counted again for every invoice with an optional contract minimum, set from a Counted choice on the add row or the full Quantity from section in Edit Line with a live count, marked on each line and listed in a new Seats card with Update now when the client has changed, quarterly frequency alongside monthly and yearly counted as a third in MRR on the dashboard, client pages, client portal and reports, period words {month} {quarter} {year} {period} filled into scope, notes and lines, schedule card showing the period the next invoice covers, recurring_invoice_anchor_day so month-end schedules return to the 31st after a short month, nightly run and Invoice Now consolidated into recurringInvoiceGenerate() which claims the run so it is billed once, refreshes seat counts and takes taxes at current rates, nightly run now bills runs missed by up to 7 days, Invoice Now bills the next run early and moves the schedule on from that run instead of restarting from today, recurring email goes to non-archived primary and billing contacts once per address and stays a draft when outgoing mail is not set up. Fixes portal recurring card ignoring yearly-only clients and counting archived ones, edit recurring invoice resetting the billing day. Adds DB 2.9.1, recurring_invoice_sync and recurring_seat_count handlers, itflowBillingSeatForm(), and updates the 26.11 changelog	2026-10-16 13:09:59 -04:00
johnnyq	fee0a5cb80	Invoices, quotes and recurring invoices makeover stage 1: one shared document page for all three with inline line editing (product pick, live line totals, drag to reorder, lines locked once paid or answered), shared New/Edit form, late recurring invoices offer to skip to the next date without billing missed runs, Add Payment shows remaining balance and account balances, Batch Payment lists the invoices it will pay, Add Tickets takes several at once, new PDF layout for invoices, quotes and packing slips with pay/answer QR codes and paid/answered stamps, Letter or A4 by country, guest invoice Pay Now with other open invoices, guest quote Accept/Decline then signed copy or PO upload. Line amounts rounded to the cent on save, expired quotes can no longer be accepted from the link, Batch Payment skips non-billable invoices, recurring list creation-date filter removed. Fixes discount reset to zero on invoice/quote edit, stock not moving on invoice item quantity change, invoice status not updating on payment edit, autopay left behind on recurring invoice delete. Consolidates line items, totals, statuses and PDFs into functions/billing.php, includes/billing_paper.php, agent/post/billing.php and functions/billing_pdf.php with a single billing_items_order ajax reorder; removes the three item edit modals, link_invoice_to_ticket, guest_quote_upload_file_modal.php and js/product_autocomplete.js	2026-10-16 12:37:50 -04:00