Client Order Statuses! WOO HOO

[mavrik]

I'll try to explain quickly - I love the Graphistudio order tracking. It shows you when the order was placed, received, when it's in printing, binding, shipping back to you - VERY easy to follow where your order stands.

I wanted something like this for clients. Something I could tell them up front - just login to xxx and you'll be able to track your WHOLE order through every step. BUT I didn't want to pay someone to set that sort of thing up for me and since I don't speak SQL I thought I was SOL (ooh geek humor, I AM in a good mood)

ANYWAYS

I did it!

If you've seen my Taskfreak demo you know that I use Taskfreak to do list to track all of my own work. Why do the work x2? Why not just SHOW clients where I am on THEIR project!!

Go here:

http://pictureinfinity.com/taskfreak/login.php

First thing you'll notice - it's on my domain. I have full control of this. I also branded it with my logo & everything.

Login name = sample
password = wedding

When you get in, you'll also see that it's branded with our blues & greys. Very consistent with our site!

Once you're in you'll see 3 tasks and various percent complete projects. The due date is on there, and the logged in client can see their tasks as well as under view, sample wedding, past tasks - everything we've already completed!

They can't edit anything or change due dates. All they can do is view the status.

I can also give the CLIENT jobs such as "approve final album design" and due dates! I can't imagine that they will blame us for not getting their albums quickly if they know this status thing is update whenever they do anything.

WOW.

Ok, so now the question is - do you like it? I'm not worried about giving the client too much info and this is *almost* no extra work for me because I use this task list to direct my day anyways.

I'm super excited about this! haha I'll be doing a tutorial on it later.

HAHA

I just registered http://www.myphotographersrock.com and http://www.myphotographerrocks.com as the link I'll give clients.