WorkFerret

About

WorkFerret (WF) is an application for tracking billable work done for different clients, generating invoices, and recording payments. It is essentially a special-purpose accounts receivable.

History

WF was originally written in MS Access 97, and ported to PHP as a MediaWiki extension sometime around 2005-2010. The code was first posted on GitHub in May 2015 (see #Links). As of 2017 I am porting it as a Ferreteria drop-in module.

Features

• Ways of entering work done:
  • Stopwatch for timing a work session
  • Manually correct start/stop times
  • Manually enter adjustments to work session total (add or subtract)
    • e.g. to allow for distractions (minus), or forgetting to start the clock at first (plus)
  • Manually enter start or stop times
  • Manually enter total time in session
  • Manually enter flat amount to charge
• Allows different hourly rates
  • Keeps track of which rates are used for which clients (with client-specific description)
  • Global rates also listed for all clients
• Invoice generation
  • keeps track of which sessions have been invoiced to prevent double-billing for a session
  • automatically totals session costs, doing whatever math is needed
  • formats as HTML table (copy/paste into word processor document with letterhead)

Future

• Generate complete invoice (currently requires existing document to use as a template, copy/paste data from browser into doc)
• Sync with payments in FinanceFerret (using a pre-designated category or equity account)

Technical

• /tables

Links

• Repository: WorkFerret is now part of the Greenmine project
• portfolio page
• project on VBZ Redmine (old)