Re: Thoughts on payment handling in 1.4.x

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

On 4/27/07, John Hasler <..hidden..> wrote:
> Ed W writes:
> > One area though that I think is likely to drop out is that sales orders,
> > sales invoices and sales quotes are all special cases of the same object.
>
> Invoices are accounting transactions.  Sales orders and quotes are not.

In particular, when you convert an order to an invoice it becomes a
financial transaction.

Having said this, they are still phases of the document and might get
stored in the same table (though an order would not reference any
Journal entries).

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers