Contact / Project Manager

Overview I need a program to help my business keep track of ongoing jobs and customers. It will essentially be a combination contact manager and project manager. This will be the first part of a larger program to be built in stages. The complete program will store customer data, job data, schedule resources, create forms from existing data, handle simple job cost accounting, track ongoing job status and summarize all ongoing jobs in a “dashboard?? format as well as provide complete reporting on all jobs and customers. Having a simple clean interface is very important because some users of the program are not comfortable with computers. My ideal interface is something like Microsoft Money, whereas the main page summarizes all ongoing activity and simple links take you to the detail. Summary of Phase One The first part of the program that I would like to have is the customer manger component that would be very similar to Outlook or ACT! Other than just keeping track of the data, I need to have a “notes?? element in which we can enter customer phone calls, e-mail etc. and have them be time and date stamped automatically. The program also needs to have a section in which we can attach document files that are related to that customer. I will also need to create forms and pull specific customer data fields to be printed on the form. (similar to mail merge) I know little of programming and tend to think visually, so the winning coder must be able to explain how something will look and provide examples. (without making fun of me. haha) I have attached a simple overview of my business which may help offer a few more details. ## Deliverables 1) Complete and fully-functional working program(s) in executable form as well as complete source code of all work done. 2) Installation package that will install the software (in ready-to-run condition) on the platform(s) specified in this bid request. 3) Exclusive and complete copyrights to all work purchased. (No GPL, GNU, 3rd party components, etc. unless all copyright ramifications are explained AND AGREED TO by the buyer on the site per the coder's Seller Legal Agreement). ## Platform I would like the program written in VB.net on a SQL Server database unless convinced otherwise.