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What migrations - caused by changing existing expense types - need to take place? | As of , only “pesticide” → “Pest control” Duncan Brain. |
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Does it make sense for custom expense types to be at the end? Should they be elsewhere? | TBD! | |
How do we make types both short and crisp and descriptive? | Make the short descriptions searchable such that if someone searches for “lease” it brings up “Land” and “Machinery” since both of those might have the idea of a lease embedded within them. |
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Is alphabetical sorting the best ordering for expense types? | TBD; we would need a very good reason to move away. If we do move away, it needs to be statically ordered. | |
With 13 default categoriestypes, it feels like we’re right on the edge of tiles being a useful tool. Do we need to rethink the selection process / flow? | Include a search bar. Remove or reduce icons role and move to list view rather than tile view. Loic Sans thinks he can also support longer titles on a list view as needed. |
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It’s often difficult to disentangle whether something is purely labour, purely machinery rental, or a combination of both. Do we need to be able to answer this or is it sufficient to allow the user to select one or both? | Guidance for user onboarding and support 👇
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Is there a way to make “Services” more useful of a categorytype? Examples from the data include:
| Short description helps with this. Will re-evaluate a few months post-release. |
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There were roughly 20 instances of “Other” expenses that related to livestock (Loic Sans). These fell into 6 main categoriestypes:
Animal purchases (e.g. “Chicks”, “35 egg layers” “50 Cornish Cross Broilers”)
Animal feed (e.g. “Feed - poultry layer”, “Goat feed - hay no receipt”)
Veterinary care (e.g. “Vet consultation organic”, “Vet barn cat”)
Animal equipment (e.g. “Chicken waterer”)
Animal housing (e.g. “Building Goat Town 2022”)
Animal nutritional supplements (“Shamrock Goat Mineral”)
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