Re: percentage discount not calculating properly

[Bob Miller <..hidden..>]

Hi Luke,
Okay, this makes sense to me...
I will pass this by my client, but pretty sure it's not going to fly
very well based on the PITA factor.  We all know how clients describe
things like: "rounding is a simple thing, you would think it would be a
simple matter to get the computer to do it."  While I understand that
nothing is a simple matter with programming (or computers for that
matter), most end users don't get (and don't want to get) it, and mostly
they shouldn't have too.  I suspect this kind of work around will end up
being a show-stopper for this client.
Hopefully Chris thinks up a solution that is a bit more user-friendly.
Thanks Luke, much appreciated...

On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 14:38 -0500, Luke wrote:
> Okay Bob, since it seems an immediate fix is not available (didn't think I 
> saw that in the Changelog, but figured I missed it.:)), the only current 
> way I know of to get around this, is to tweak the item price on the 
> invoice until the discount works well enough to get you close to where you 
> want to go.
> It is a PITA, and takes some minutes playing with a calculator, but I've 
> had to do it on about 1 out of 8 invoices for a while now, and at least 
> with my product line it works.
> 
> The other option is to use an adjustment item.  That involves creating a 
> service item of price 0.01, and adding it to the invoice.  Once it's 
> added, adjust the price on invoice to the amount you need to make up, and 
> modify the description to "adjustment to foregoing due to software 
> rounding error" or some such more or less descriptive phrase, and let that 
> solve your problem.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Luke
> 
> 
> On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Bob Miller wrote:
> 
> > Hi David,
> >
> >> Out of interest which version of 1.2 is the client running.
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> David Godfrey
> >>
> >
> > That would be 1.2.18.
> >
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