Goalboost is a time and billing application written using Python, Flask, and MongoDb. It is employee owned source, not open source -- see the license.

You'll need Python 3 and MongoDb installed, as well as PIP3 if that doesn't come with your python3 distribution. Once you have these, follow these steps: Make sure the mongo service is running (mongod) To install the dependencies run "pip3 install -r /path/to/requirements.txt" (requirements.txt is in the source code folder root). Once you've done this you should be able to run the server in the source code root with the following command:

python3 manage.py runserver_debug

At this point you if all goes well you'll have a server running at http://localhost:5000. Because we're running mongo no datbase setup is needed other than to run the server -- collections will be created as we go along.

We keep track of our hours in docs/hours.json

• RocketMatter
• GetHarvest
• Toggle
• Bill4Time
• Foundation Time and Materials - construction
• Chrometa

See also the time and billing section of this article re Bill4Time and Chrometa.

• Team -- this is our customer's employees or associates, the folks doing the billing
• People -- "Subclasses" (conceptually) are TeamPeople (aka Users) or ClientPeople. The difference will be modeled this way:
• "userCredentials" will be none on non-users, or will contain userCredentials for users.
• Client -- This is a company (or person) which we bill for services
• Projects / Matters - a body of work that can be billed separately or used for tracking. Related to Clients / ClientPeople.
• Timers (Description, plus 1-N dates and times. Second precision but may need rounding rules for invoices?)
• "Billable" -- can be a project, a company, or a person.
• Invoices, which consist of invoice lines and reference a billable.
• InvoiceItem:
  • Is either a service or expense
  • Assumption for services is rate * hours = amount. May elect to show hours and rates on invoice or not.
  • Contains a description of task (timer description), a short service title (e.g senior partner, designer, paralegal, etc.)
  • Edit form contains simple checkbox to exclude or not, edit controls for everything else to adjust (hours etc.)
• Rates:
  • Are either by Billable (client, project etc.) or by ServiceTitle (Senior Partner, Senior Partner Courtroom, etc.), or both.