Re: Questions about Billing Accounts and new FinAccount code

["David E. Jones" <jo...@hotwaxmedia.com>]

> ------- Original Message -------
> From: Jacopo Cappellato <ti...@sastau.it>
> To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org
> Sent: 3/27/07, 1:46:39 AM
> Subject: Questions about Billing Accounts and new FinAccount code
> 
> David, Andy, all,
> 
> I'm really interested to the new code about FinAccounts; I don't know 
> much about them but I'd like to figure out if in some way that can be 
> used in place of billing accounts.
> 
> I'm asking this because in my opinion there are some issues in the way 
> billing accounts currently handle invoices/payments, for example:
> if you create a billing account with the amount field set to, let's say, 
> $1000, and then you take an order for $500 and associate it to the 
> billing account, when the invoice is created for it, it is automatically 
> marked as PAID (by the billing account amount). And this is not what I 
> need for it (I would like to use the billing account to keep track of 
> existing invoices and real payments, but only real payments should be 
> applied to invoices).

That sounds like a BillingAccount bug, and a big one too! In fact that is a deal killer bug.... A credit limit is just that, not a payment, so the invoice shouldn't be marked paid...

The FinAccount stuff isn't an alternative to a BillingAccount, it is for a different purpose. They are for tracking how much money you hold for a customer, like a bank account or a gift card or a pay in advance for small or high risk purchases.

-David 

Re: Questions about Billing Accounts and new FinAccount code

[Jacopo Cappellato <ti...@sastau.it>]

David,

thanks this helps me a lot to clarify this.
I guess I'll need some help/suggestions from Si too because he recently 
did a lot of work in the billing account processes, and he can probably 
help to find where the issue is.

Jacopo

David E. Jones wrote:
> 
>> ------- Original Message -------
>> From: Jacopo Cappellato <ti...@sastau.it>
>> To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org
>> Sent: 3/27/07, 1:46:39 AM
>> Subject: Questions about Billing Accounts and new FinAccount code
>>
>> David, Andy, all,
>>
>> I'm really interested to the new code about FinAccounts; I don't know 
>> much about them but I'd like to figure out if in some way that can be 
>> used in place of billing accounts.
>>
>> I'm asking this because in my opinion there are some issues in the way 
>> billing accounts currently handle invoices/payments, for example:
>> if you create a billing account with the amount field set to, let's say, 
>> $1000, and then you take an order for $500 and associate it to the 
>> billing account, when the invoice is created for it, it is automatically 
>> marked as PAID (by the billing account amount). And this is not what I 
>> need for it (I would like to use the billing account to keep track of 
>> existing invoices and real payments, but only real payments should be 
>> applied to invoices).
> 
> That sounds like a BillingAccount bug, and a big one too! In fact that is a deal killer bug.... A credit limit is just that, not a payment, so the invoice shouldn't be marked paid...
> 
> The FinAccount stuff isn't an alternative to a BillingAccount, it is for a different purpose. They are for tracking how much money you hold for a customer, like a bank account or a gift card or a pay in advance for small or high risk purchases.
> 
> -David