Re: At the end of my teather with LSMB

[beamends <..hidden..>]

On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 07:00 -0400, Luke wrote:
> On Wed, 28 May 2008, beamends wrote:
> 
> > My current system only generates invoice (or anything else) numbers when
> > printing. If you subsequently want to e-mail it, it has an e-mail button
> > to do that. After printing, you can re-open (for e-mailing etc) or
> > re-printing etc, but cannot change the invoice in any way (except to
> > shorten/edit descriptions which can be needed for including special
> > instructions, serial numbers etc. This meets the UK accounting and VAT
> > requirement that all transactions have to be available in hard-copy on
> > request (to avoid "oh my computer broke" type fraud - yes, the buggers
> > have though of everything). Printing to a file or spooler gets round a
> > broken printer... 
> 
> So it requires you to print in order to post?  That's what it sounds like.
> 

It does.

> This requirement to print would drive a great many US based companies 
> crazy--they (domain registrars, for example) never deal with paper in 
> connection with the customer: it is all done electronically.  I would hate 
> to be such a company in the UK.
> 

It's a statutory requirement in the UK, at least for Limited Companies
registered at Companies House. It can be a till receipt though!

> Luke
> 

Cheers
Richard

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