[cms] ui/ux improvements: domain invoices/dcc counters (notifications)

[ta-lind]

Similar to proposals.decred.org, counters could be added next to Domain Invoices and DCC's tabs to work as a sort of rudimentary notification. Worth to discuss what's more practical – whether if the counter resets upon being viewed, or every month and simply displaying the no. of "status=active/waiting for review/unpaid" items.

[xaur]

To serve as notifications, the counters must be somehow connected to the amount of items I can/need to do something about. So I vote for

displaying the no. of "status=active/waiting for review/unpaid" items

This way Domain Invoices [9] would mean there are 9 invoices awaiting payment that I can review and possibly spot any errors.

If we talk about notifications, there is one very important engagement problem to solve: make people submit invoices early.

A few months ago we added 2 extra email notifications but I still see people missing/forgetting about it. I would like the UI to be loud about it, even if it comes to using bloody red colors :)

[ta-lind]

The trouble with notifying about "submitting the invoice on time" on CMS is that you'd actually need to log in to CMS first to see the notification. Doing that = most likely already submitting the invoice.

So it should be more out of the box or carrot or stick approaches, than just being loud about it. As its a recurring event, we'd need to root the users to always find time in these first 5 days of the month or something like that to get it done. Like showing a timer to create some urgency, that there's X days remaining until end/beginning of invoicing period.

As part of onboarding/tutorials, adding the invoicing period to own calendar to better stick with it; communicating that if you're late, you're payments will be later more probable the DCR price gone through more change; more trouble for reviewers, etc.