Issues with Jobs and Purchase Orders.

[Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd)]

On 29 May 2017 at 16:53, Bruce Danielson <DanielsonB at logroom.com> wrote:

> I see that clearly Dave as an excellent addition – and quotations are
> related to purchase orders as invoices are to bills and customers to
> vendors.
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> Thanks for that bit of insight.
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> Bruce
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I doubt quotations and/or purchase orders will be added any time soon - if
at all.

I did offer one of the GnuCash developers a modest sum ($100) if he could
add support for quotations, as it would benefit my business. He did not do
jobs for money, but someone else who would, had no time to do the job. But
the developer estimated  adding support for quotations would be 100 hours
of work, and I told the amount of money a software developer earned in
Silicon Valley was about $500/hour. A simple bit of maths indicates that to
pay for this to be developed on a commercial basis ($50,000) , which was
far in excess of the $100 I was offering.

The developers have a roadmap,

https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Roadmap

which seems primarily on cleaning up the code. Hence unless there was a
substantial amount of money raised, I don't think quotations will be added
any time soon, and I'm lead to believe purchase orders would be similar
code.

*If *someone could find a GnuCash developer willing to add purchase orders
/ quotations for a fixed feed, and there was crowdfunding to get it going,
*conceivably* these features could be added. But I don't think this is
likely to happen to be honest.


Dave