Re: Billing Accounts

[David E Jones]

-David


On Nov 25, 2007, at 11:54 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

A Payment applied to a BillingAccount does not mean the payment is closed, in fact I'm not even sure what it means to say a payment is closed... did you have something in mind? Whatever it means to you, a payment is either not, partially, or fully applied.

Jacapo

https://localhost:8443/accounting/control/editPaymentApplications

and one of them involves applying it to the billing account.

I don't see the point in applying a payment to a billing account.



see the point in the Tax Auth Geo ID.


are no invoices to apply to, the Payment should stay open.  It makes
everything else then so easy.


Skip



-----Original Message-----
From: Jacopo Cappellato [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2007 11:45 PM
To: dev@ofbiz.apache.org
Subject: Re: Billing Accounts


Skip,

I very well remember that valuable message from David: it helped me a
lot when I've recently refactored the billing accounts.
Where is the current implementation not following David's notes?

Thanks,

Jacopo

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Otherwise, how to you know when an invoice is paid? What happens later, do you take the money out of the billing account and apply it to an invoice? There may be some european need that I am not aware of to apply a customer payment to a Tax Authority, but that is not the case in the U.S, so I don't The main one for me is applying a payment to a billing account. If there

I just ran across this in the Wiki from David concerning Billing Accounts

from back in July.

http://docs.ofbiz.org/display/OFBIZ/Billing+Account


document.  The "addon" I partially provided here:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-1421


is a shame that billingAccountId ended up in so many entities.


than me:


relation to regular Invoice and Payment processes. With or without a
BillingAccount those operate and flow the same.

A BillingAccount simply allows for more organization of Invoices and

list by any means):"



Skip

The current Ofbiz implementation does not operate as described in this follows it exactly or nearly so. Furthermore, the logic is so simple. It I think these paragraphs bear repeating because he says it so much better "A BillingAccount is essentially nothing. Just forget that it exists in Payments related to things like the following (which is not an exhaustive

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