On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Chris Travers <chris.trav...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Brian Wolf <br...@activustech.com> 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?
>
>
Having looked at this, it is not as simple as I had hoped. I may be able
to devote some time to it this week. It doesn't look too bad though
maybe with some extra time I will see an easier way to do this.
Best Wishes,
Chris Travers
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