On Aug 31, 2012, at 6:20 AM, Derek Atkins <[email protected]> wrote:
> John Ralls <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> If you look in an English thesaurus, you'll find that "invoice" and
>> "bill" are synonyms. Using one for Customer transactions and the other
>> for Vendor transactions isn't even necessary since they're in
>> different menus.
>
> At first they were not in different menus. That got changed later.
> Moreover, it does matter, internally, whether it's a Customer, Vendor,
> or Employee owner, and that needs to be configured when the dialog gets
> created. If everything had the same name then when you have a window
> pop up that says "Invoice", it doesn't let you know which flavor.
> Unfortunately the flavor is important.
What has that to do with anything? Of course the user gets a different dialog
box when she selects Business>Customer>New Statement or Business>Vendor>New
Statement.
>
>> Using "Purchase Document" and "Sales Document"
>> doesn't really help either, because the document you get from a Vendor
>> is always a "purchase document", regardless of the direction of the
>> cash flow. How about just "Statement" to replace both Invoice and
>> Bill?
>
> See above for why differentiation matters. Also in some languages there
> *is* a different word for an invoice you send out vs. a bill that you
> receive.
Translation hints to get the right words in whatever language are a given.
Anyway, we're looking for a term that can mean "You owe me money" ("Bill" or
"Invoice") and "I owe you money" ("Credit Note"). "Statement" works.
Regards,
John Ralls
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