David,
thanks this helps me a lot to clarify this.
I guess I'll need some help/suggestions from Si too because he recently
did a lot of work in the billing account processes, and he can probably
help to find where the issue is.
Jacopo
David E. Jones wrote:
------- Original Message -------
From: Jacopo Cappellato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org
Sent: 3/27/07, 1:46:39 AM
Subject: Questions about Billing Accounts and new FinAccount code
David, Andy, all,
I'm really interested to the new code about FinAccounts; I don't know
much about them but I'd like to figure out if in some way that can be
used in place of billing accounts.
I'm asking this because in my opinion there are some issues in the way
billing accounts currently handle invoices/payments, for example:
if you create a billing account with the amount field set to, let's say,
$1000, and then you take an order for $500 and associate it to the
billing account, when the invoice is created for it, it is automatically
marked as PAID (by the billing account amount). And this is not what I
need for it (I would like to use the billing account to keep track of
existing invoices and real payments, but only real payments should be
applied to invoices).
That sounds like a BillingAccount bug, and a big one too! In fact that is a
deal killer bug.... A credit limit is just that, not a payment, so the invoice
shouldn't be marked paid...
The FinAccount stuff isn't an alternative to a BillingAccount, it is for a
different purpose. They are for tracking how much money you hold for a
customer, like a bank account or a gift card or a pay in advance for small or
high risk purchases.
-David
