I’d like to join this topic and at the same time pull together some topics on this subject. They all have more or less to do with this:
- Sales invoice from timesheet - #9 by Softwareprofs
- Sales Invoice Time log
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IT services company - how to efficiently
track/invoice time?
(How do I refernce other topics?)
Some things to start:
We bill time towards our customers for the work we do helping them with all sorts of it-related problems. Where possible we have started to use the given ERPNExt workflow Quotations>Sales Order>Project>Sales Invoice. Though we still do small jobs <30 mins where it’s to much work to follow this workflow. In that case we user Issues from the Support. We have implemented a custom field in our Timesheet Detail in which we can choose the according Issue.
More on this: Timesheets/Timetracking - #9 by wojosc
We have no trouble with the fact, that timesheets are not calculated and added to the item list automatically, as this is a good place to have a last check on the correctness of the work and the billing towards it. Also it is good to be able to seperate billable work if done on weekends with a different rate.
An issue to us right now starts at the point of actually printing or sending the invoice.
Here is how the invoice looks when creating:
Now, in an ideal world we are trying to build with ERPNext 
we would like to have the green box on the first page of our invoice with a short text saying “for closer reference see page X”.
Then on page X we’d like to have the orange box listed. The orange box as it is right now is no good to us or our customers at the moment, as they would call me up right away wanting to now what the hell TS-00353 is and why they should pay for it.
The list on that page should look a little like this:
It’d be important that the detailed description in the picture above is always on a seperate page.
We are working on the subject with newmatik.io at the moment and are hoping to have this implemented for our erpnext instance for 2018. If anyone is interested in supporting this endevour please get in touch with me.
@quintact thank you for your call earlier this week. correct me if I’m wrong, but I think this is pretty much what you need, right?