Steve and I met up to talk about some new flags and tags for quotes (being used as orders or a pre-state before a real invoice). As we were talking, I remembered that Alan and I had a similar conversation a couple of weeks ago. It was dealing with both quotes and invoices and being able to add sub invoice types (virtual flags) to both invoices and quotes. This was for things like normal, delivery, shipping, etc. We sent Alan a text and he jumped on with Steve and I on the GoToMeeting session. Steve is going to be headed in that direction and Alan should have his new code done (sub invoice types for quotes and invoices) in the next couple of days. Good stuff. Light piggybacking between projects.

Small thought from Steve - "You almost need to get big in order to get small." It is funny, if you start out super small, it makes it hard to grow. You just aren't deep enough. If you are big and then need to show/hide or trim things down, it takes time, but once the new interface is in place, you get the best of both worlds. You have to first centralize the data and catch it (make sure you get enough of the story to play the game). Once you have the data, you can start dealing with how to show it or display it. You can't show what you don't have, but you can hide much of what you do have, if needed. Make it look simple or streamlined. Smoke and mirrors.