On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Brian Wolf
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One of our clients asked about shipping products after making a
sale.
They created a sales order, and then a sales invoice (from the sales
order). Now, how do they ship it? The sales invoice is not
displayed in Under Shipping > Ship.
The currently supported workflow is that workflows can be shipped, not sales invoices. The problem I see as far as our support right now is that payments can't be attached to orders. In other words shipping happens prior to invoice. I suspect that the shipping routines could be modified to track shipping of invoices.
I can see this might be a common requirement since very often you take a payment prior to shipping. I have generally wanted to redo this as a part of redesigning order management with the idea that invoices could be issued after shipping (and I still want to do that) but I think we could really use something more immediate because this is a significant limitation. Let me see what is involved in this and see whether we can offer this as a new feature in 1.4 and maybe a backport for 1.3. My gut says this shouldn't be too difficult but I won't know for sure until I get into it.
Question for everyone else: Is a "ship after invoice" workflow something that would be generally helpful to everyone else?
Best Wishes,
Chris Travers