Re: Thoughts on payment handling in 1.4.x

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

On 4/27/07, Gerald Chudyk <..hidden..> wrote:
> 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.
> > --
> There may be exceptions to this. There are some businesses who treat
> signed sales orders as binding as purchase orders.  At least, they
> report them as business items to management and shareholders. I am not
> trying to draw exact parallels between purchase orders and sales
> orders, but work flow security and auditing issues should be dealt
> with in both the above cases.

Sales orders and invoices are both potentially legal documents.

Invoices are financial transactions while orders are not.

Again, information-wise they can still be part of the same physical
layout, but the order will not have the financial component.

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers