I don't (yet) have a mobile account with VFNZ, but for our home/internet we get the option of email, which suits fine. Presumably the TXT option only applies if your account is a mobile one? Is there an option to have the invoice delivered by email?
If invoice notification is coming via TXT, I'd definitely want it to show the balance, and I think it's only really a practical way of receiving an invoice if you can pay the bill via the same medium. For that reason I wouldn't choose to invoice via SMS. >From your original description Gold, it sounds like it just gives you notification of the invoice being available, without a $$$ figure - is that true? No, I don't think anyone's obligated to send a physical invoice, and I think that would be a wasteful requirement. I'm all for one less envelope to recycle and piece of paper to file, so the emailed invoices we get work for us. FWIW, I have a single customer who requests a printed copy (annually, mind), and another one who insists on printing out invoices and mailing them back to us (each month - gee, thanks for that!). Old habits die hard I guess :) On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Aaron Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Aaron Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> I'm sure it's very legal. VF wouldn't be so stupid to implement such a > >> massive infrastructure change without doing their legal homework. I > >> beleive > > > > Heh. I think you have too much faith in the ability of larger > > companies. My experience is that they tend to think "some other > > department must have approved that". > > Ha, yeah I guess I do. But this thing has been in the press a few times and > no one in the legal know or the IRD has bought up a problem yet. So I'm > assuming it's A-OK. > > >> the only legal requirement for invoices is that it contains the word > "Tax > >> Invoice" on it somewhere, and the details of both yourself, and the > >> customer. > > > > Really? Cool. I'll start drawing up invoices to them for the time it > > takes to go to their site, download and print the invoices. I'll make > > them available on my site. All they need to do is log in, identify > > themselves and download them. If not paid I'll bundle them up each 6 > > months and pass them on to baycorp or someone... ;) > > You know what? When you put it that way, it really is a pain in the ass and > simply passing extra costs onto customers. I wonder how much of my printer > cartridges they are going to chew up. If these new bills are colour, then > VF > are total bastards for making me have to remember to push the B&W button on > my printer too. Easy to see that giving a discount incentive for people to > opt-out of paper is the least they can do after feilding the entire cost of > invoicing since the beginning. > > Pretty valid points about simply changing this though. I have read however > that this change is only going to apply to Personal and Home Business > customers. So there may be a way for you to go status quo depending on how > your account is structured. > > You do have to admit. Most personal account owners read the bill, pay it > and > bin it. It's probably only the home business people who are going to have a > wide spread problem with this as they need to store the bills for taxation. > > I myself will simply be paying mine as usual, and printing the lot out at > the end of the fiscal year. (They are storing 13 months worth at a time) > > Aaron > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
