New topic: looking for feed back on how to generate invoices in app
<http://forums.realsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?t=37066> Page 1 of 1 [ 3 posts ] Previous topic | Next topic Author Message coryhefner Post subject: looking for feed back on how to generate invoices in appPosted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 3:49 pm Joined: Thu Dec 10, 2009 2:00 pm Posts: 60 Location: Calafornia I am triying to put together a small app that allows me to generate an invoice and bill at certain intervals based on the invoice. (ie.. is a one time invoice or a recuring invoice.) I am looking for input on how people have handled this and what are some rules of thumb if anyone has any hints. 1) what are the types of fields that are kept and or referenced in the database? (some or pretty straight forward. (invoice number, account number, customer name, amount, items, taxs ) 2) In situation were you have a subscription service. Do you generate a new invoice everytime the billing period comes up, or reuse invoice and track a number or count 3) How do you handle accounts payable (past due, current, future)? Any sugestions would be helpful in laying out what I am working on. Thanks Cory Top timhare Post subject: Re: looking for feed back on how to generate invoices in appPosted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 3:55 pm Joined: Fri Jan 06, 2006 3:21 pm Posts: 8903 Location: Portland, OR USA A recurring invoice is actually a template, from which you generate an actual invoice at regular intervals. I keep them in a separate table which has additional fields like interval, number of times to generate, number of times remaining, next date, etc. The main point being that an invoice must stand alone as a discrete document. That makes the other issues you mentioned, managing your receivables, doable. Otherwise, it's a real nightmare. Top coryhefner Post subject: Re: looking for feed back on how to generate invoices in appPosted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 6:17 pm Joined: Thu Dec 10, 2009 2:00 pm Posts: 60 Location: Calafornia that makes since, I was orginally thinking that I was going to have to keep updating the main tables, based on how long it is supposed to be and figure out date calculaions for generating new invoices every billing period... Do you or anyone know if there are specific data requirements like Reg e or if that is only for online transactions? Top Display posts from previous: All posts1 day7 days2 weeks1 month3 months6 months1 year Sort by AuthorPost timeSubject AscendingDescending Page 1 of 1 [ 3 posts ] -- Over 1500 classes with 29000 functions in one REALbasic plug-in collection. The Monkeybread Software Realbasic Plugin v9.3. http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/realbasic/plugins.shtml [email protected]
