New Invoicing - Allow us to have Negative quantities on invoice
In the Classic Invoicing, we could set a negative item amount which was useful to make it clear to clients that we had refunded something. It also corrected the stock levels in the inventory. In new Invoicing, you can set a negative financial amount but you are not allowed negative quantities, as such it is not clear and it messes up the stock inventory levels. You can do it via credit notes but this requires more things to be issued to clients etc.
John Knight
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Michael Hart
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Yes I used to do this all the time as our sales distributors always have a mixture of sales and returns. This has doubled the amount of invoices I now need to create!
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Freya Pieroz
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I just had a customer reject an invoice over this, because I couldn't say -5 units @ $20 each +5 units @ $30 each = $50 net, only +5 units @ -$20 each +5 units @ $30 each = $50 net.
Because both units must be positive, the customer's accounting system says they are taking in 10 units costing $50 net, and not replacing units sent back with different units. So because the units received don't match the units on the invoice, they're rejecting the invoice.
This needs to be fixed.
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Naomi Gibbins
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Agreed - it would be much better to be able to credit and charge clients on the same document. They like having less processing to do, and so do we. This would is a necessary change.
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Freya Pieroz
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At the moment, because new invoicing won't allow negative quantities, I cannot make clear on an invoice that employees worked for 105 hours but I'm spotting the client 5. I can say that they worked for 100 hours at $200/hr and 5 hours at $0/hr, or I can say that they worked for 105 hours at $200/hr plus discount of 1 unit of -$1000 but I cannot say that they worked 105 at $200/hr minus 5 at $200/hr which would show the client better what the value of the income foregone is.