Quoted text is from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, by Brian Lehrhoff
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>You NEVER calculate totals in an invoice. That is the job of the
>applications program. How do you know that your calculated total
>matches the value posted to A/R? If your applications folks don't
>understand this, i'd be happy to come over (on their dime, plus
>expenses) and explain it to them.
In principle I am with you 110% there, but reality was ever ready to
compromise principle. The application sometimes doesn't export the
information (particularly for different tax rates and discount
categories). Getting heavy with the application folks is not an option
because the 'application' is a shrink-wrap accountancy package, and you
have already given the poor woman in Accounts a bad time by searching
blasphemously through the Help until you worked out for her a way of
getting invoice information exported in some form that could be
converted to EDI. To adjust the decimal precision and rounding
conventions used in the EDI system so that its results correspond to
the few totals the accountancy package deigns to generate in a printed
invoice is one of the lesser headaches.
I have been trying to think of the occasions in the last ten years when
we haven't needed to use scripting in the EDI system to complement the
application information in order to satisfy the requirements of a
Tradacoms Invoice 9. I can count them on one hand with fingers to spare.
Working with enterprises who are the S of SME is a different world.
Regards
Chris
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EDIMatrix Ltd work: 0845 126 0680 or +44 20 8501 3097
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