Business contact manager for SOHO use?

Hello

I'd like to find a basic PHP+MySQL contact manager, so that we can
keep a list of our customers, and a contact history (ie. whenever they
call us for a problem, it'll be in the file). There may be other nice
features I should know about, but I don't want any of those enterprise
softwares like SugarCRM etc. that are just too complicated.

Actually, I'm thinking of a cross between a contact manager and a
bugtracker, since customers usually call for issues and (more rare)
suggestions.

Seen anything like this?

Thank you.

Re: Business contact manager for SOHO use?

Gilles Ganault wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'd like to find a basic PHP+MySQL contact manager, so that we can
> keep a list of our customers, and a contact history (ie. whenever they
> call us for a problem, it'll be in the file). There may be other nice
> features I should know about, but I don't want any of those enterprise
> softwares like SugarCRM etc. that are just too complicated.
>
> Actually, I'm thinking of a cross between a contact manager and a
> bugtracker, since customers usually call for issues and (more rare)
> suggestions.
>
> Seen anything like this?
>

Sure, but usually written by me.

Its really not hard.

In my case there are four tables

Customers
==========

Full contact details

Employees
=========

The people handling the problems,


Tickets
=======

A support ticket for every issue that is raised, with a status, who
started it, which customer its associated with,which manager is
responisble for it, and which support person its currently assigned to.
Date when opened, date last action taken. Urgency.

Notes
=====

Free form text associated with an interaction between a support person
and a problem, time stamped, and with employees stamp on it too.
Possibly also a BLOB field fotr an upladed file.

E.g.
June Bloggs
1/1/2008
"Tried to replicate problem and found bug. See attached file.
Referred to Muggins for code fix."

Thats the basic SQL database details.

Then a few forms to add a ticket,
review selections of tickets, buy customer, by support person, by
urgency, by age, etc etc.

Plus a ticket updating system to add further notes.

You need a login system for employees and a way to distinguish support
staff from support manaagers as well.









> Thank you.

Re: Business contact manager for SOHO use?

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 09:15:45 +0000, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:
>Sure, but usually written by me. Its really not hard.

I know, but I don't have time to write and maintain this. Why didn't
Google return anything simpler than entreprise-grade contact managers
like SugarCRM, Compiere, etc.? SOHO users also need some basic CRM
software.

Re: Business contact manager for SOHO use?

Gilles Ganault wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 09:15:45 +0000, The Natural Philosopher
> wrote:
>> Sure, but usually written by me. Its really not hard.
>
> I know, but I don't have time to write and maintain this. Why didn't
> Google return anything simpler than entreprise-grade contact managers
> like SugarCRM, Compiere, etc.? SOHO users also need some basic CRM
> software.

Sure, that's why I am writing what I am writing. ;-)

If you can wait a year...

Re: Business contact manager for SOHO use?

On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:00:01 +0000, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:
>If you can wait a year...

Unfortunately... :-)

I think I found one, although it's US-centric, so I'll have to make a
few changes so it's locale-independant:

http://www.simplecustomer.com/