On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Brian Wolf
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wrote:
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?