Creating Invoice Based On Activities

[dgerman]

I posted this in the developers corner/extensions was that the wrong place?

Forgive cross posting.

 

Is blesta billing suitable for a activity based environment?

 

I have a  system where the customers are charged $10 per retrieval.

There are no reoccurring charges.

 

How do I transfer / import activity records into blesta?

the records are in the form:

blestaAccount#,uname,$,description

 

There are a few hundred customers with 50-90 actives each.

 

For example:

Invoice ###

 

customer 1

 

userA

11/20/13  retrieve aaa   $10

11/23/13  retrieve yyy   $10   

11/27/13  retrieve xxx   $10

                subtotal $30

userB

11/20/13  retrieve aaa   $10

11/23/13  retrieve yyy   $10  

                subtotal $20

 

                   total $50

                                  

 

userA

11/20/13  retrieve aaa   $10

11/23/13  retrieve yyy   $10   

11/27/13  retrieve xxx   $10

 

               total     $30

 

 

 

Invoice ###

 

Customer 2

 

UserC

11/19/13  retrieve rrr   $10

11/26/13  retrieve uuu   $10

                 total   $20

[Cody]

Totally. You'll just need a plugin to either automatically poll your activity stream to generate invoices, or to allow you to upload acitivity reports and invoice from those.

[dgerman]

Where do I find a such a plugin?

 

Thanks

[Cody]

You'd have to hire a PHP developer. We might be interested though, contact sales or open a trouble ticket and we can discuss.

[dgerman]

I am surprised that some kind of import is not already available.

 

Would the PHP developer use:  the create invoice API ?

 

 

There had been a reference at

http://www.blesta.com/manual/API:Create_Invoice

 

but that seems to be  no longer available.

ARGH I hate when this forum buggers a link.

 

manual/API:CreateInvoice

[dgerman]

Is this code sample still valid?

 

<?php

include("/home2/realger1/www/blesta/inc/init.php");

 

// http://www.blesta.com/manual/API#Local_Access

// http://www.blesta.com/manual/API:Create_Invoice

 

$api = new API();

 

$data array ();

    $data ['key'] = "abcdefg1234567";

    $data ['createinvoice'] = "true";

    $data ['uid'] = "1514";

 

I guess not for version 3

[Tyson]

Are you using v3 or v2.5 of Blesta? We're assuming v3, in which case you would take a look at the source documentation, SDK, and Invoices::add().

[dgerman]

I need to hire someone to do this.

Can you recommend anyone?

[Paul]

I need to hire someone to do this.

Can you recommend anyone?

 

We can quote you with enough details. Also, there's someone on the forums here, zaveo that may be interested as well and would likely be cheaper.

[dgerman]

I updated the opening  of this post with some additional detail.

 

each account has as many as 20 unames and the invoice needs to subtotal  by uname.

 

What other information do you need.

[Cody]

Email sales or open a trouble ticket and we can discuss.

[dgerman]

My current license is under mid phase.

Should I buy another license in order to open a ticket?

 

I emailed sales Friday, but I guess they are on holiday.

 

I have  an idea which is MUCH simpler and more useful to anyone:

 

PLEASE see my post :Import Invoice Data From File

 

thank you.

 

PS I private message zaveo and he said he would contact a developer.