Working Contract: Overlapping project bookings not calculated more than once in WC

[PentaPaetzold]

Our Employees are Working on different Projects, sometime for two Customers at the same time.
While the Project- Time should be billed for each Customer as the Time is Booked, the Times with overlapping bookings should not be calculated more than once for the Working- Contract times.

e.g. One Employee works from 8:00 to 16:00 o'clock.
While the "Customer A"s Project is from 8:00 - 12:00 = 4 h, the "Customer B" is from 11:00 - 16:00 = 5 h
The Time from 11:00 - 12:00 was a meeting, where all three Parties joined. So while Customer A will be charged 4h and B will be charged 5h, the Working hours were only 8h on that day.

My Suggestion would be to have the choice for each Employee whether to have hours only calculated once, or not (by Lead)

[kevinpapst]

Thanks for the suggestion!

I will add a settings to choose an explicit project which will be calculated as working time exclusively.

Then you can have three parallel times.

• Two for billable hours
• One for working time calculation

Fiddling around with overlapping bookings will not be added, that is too expensive to calculate on runtime.

[PentaPaetzold]

Thank you for the proposal.
Can this project automagically be started and stopped among the real project when using the two buttons on the top?
And will the time be changed when a booking time is changed later on, so that times are matching?

[kevinpapst]

No and No, at least for the first version.

[zer777]

This sounds like a great feature and would improve our workflow a lot. Do you have any timeline on this @kevinpapst ?

[kevinpapst]

See also #186 and #112