Re: Feedback on new customer/vendor proposal

["Chris Travers" <..hidden..>]

On 11/8/06, Ed W <..hidden..> wrote:
> Hi
>
> > I want to make the current customer/vendor/shipto structure go away
> > for 1.3.  It would be replaced by:
> >
>
> Sounds excellent.  Just a few thoughts:
>
> - In general I only *buy* from my suppliers and only *sell* to my
> customers.  ie for 95% of my contact base there is a clear distinction
> as to whether I want them to be an option in the drop down list on
> different types of invoice.  However, there are a smaller (but
> definitely not zero) number of situations where I buy&sell to one
> contact (off the top of my head, sell to a customer then buy back second
> hand item some time later.  Also occasionally we sell a few line items
> to companies that we normally use as a supplier)

Never hurts to state the obvious.  This way we make sure it gets done.
 Adding the dropdown links was not something I had thought of.

> Sounds very useful.
>
> I deal a lot with customers who travel the world and so they have a) a
> normal billing address, b) a normal delivery address (which is probably
> the same as (a) ) and c) the actual delivery address where they are in
> the world right now.
So the invoice shipto should have an option (though not the
requirement) of saving the new shipto with the cutomer.

> Now the time consuming bit is as follows: I also have some of my
> suppliers ship direct to my customers (drop shipment), so I currently
> need to tap in the invoice for my customer, then duplicate the same
> invoice for my supplier, tapping in the delivery address into both
> invoices.

Maybe a drop shipping interface that allows you to copy shipto's from
a customer or sales order /invoice into a vendor invoice or purchase
order?

Technically, I don't think it is gaap-compliant to copy from a sales
invoice to a vendor invoice because one should not invoice until after
the vendor has shipped, but I suspect that it may be OK if one can
void it later if it doesn't ship.  Any feedback on this issue?

Best wishes,
Chris Travers