Can I use a product group to create invoice for custom work

[Magistar]

Is it possible to use a general product group to charge time based work? Right now I create manual drafts that have no related product and this has a few disadvantages, mainly that you have no control over which payment options are available. If I could charge as a subset of a product then I could disable the payment option for that invoice type. Also it would give me a better insight into which part of my revenue is coming from that service.

[brian!]

11 hours ago, Magistar said:

Is it possible to use a general product group to charge time based work?

you mean have a product, e.g Development Time, and create an order for it in the admin area or use billable items ?

if an order, I suppose you'd have to use the price override option, as using multiple quantities (e.g a quantity being 1 hour) would result in the client having multiple versions of the same "product" shown in their client area.

[Magistar]

I guess I could adjust override the price value per "job" and use a one time product. Does sound like a lot of effort to prevent local companies using paypal instead of their bank :P.

[brian!]

13 hours ago, Magistar said:

I guess I could adjust override the price value per "job" and use a one time product. Does sound like a lot of effort to prevent local companies using paypal instead of their bank :P.

another way might be an invoices hook that removes gateways that you don't want the client to use on this invoice... if it were a custom invoice, then the 'type' value should be empty in tblinvoiceitems and that could be used to trigger when the non PayPal gateways are removed.