Hi Rich

The AR Aging Report, gets you half way there... and at least shows you all
outstanding Invoices for customers. It has been a problem for me as many of
my Customers (I am in manufacturing) are on account, I guess a bit like you
on Retainer, And they pay on Statement and not Invoice. The added problem I
have is that they pay on the last day of the month for the previous months
invoices... so even the "30, 60, 90 day listing isn't quite accurate for me.
I tried writing  a PHP script (or at least getting it written for me I'm
clueless with programming) that interrogated the Database but struggled
finding the payments made as they were allocated to individual invoices and
not as a total. I have landed up exporting the data off SL (Copy and paste)
to an openoffice spreadsheet template that produces the Statements I
require, a bit of a hack, but isn't too time consuming for my Secretary.

Its not Ideal but it works for me while I wait for the developers to get
around to these kinds of requirements. Anyway just a thought to help with
the lateral thinking process.

Cheers

Tim Wade
Penguin Products



On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>wrote:

>  In /usr/local/sql-ledger/templates/rshepard/ is statement.tex. (That's
> right, I have not changed the directory name to l123.) Anyway, ...
>
>  I cannot find where in the menu system statements are prepared and
> produced. I looked under A/R, Order Entry, Reports, and other main headings
> that looked likely, but I saw nothing about statements. Here is what I need
> to do and what I think is needed.
>
>  My business is all consulting services. Most clients pay against an issued
> invoice for a fixed fee. Generating such invoices is easy for me to do.
>
>  Some clients want to pay for time and expenses. For these folks I use the
> time card system and submit both the detailed time card report and a
> one-line invoice (because I cannot yet produce an invoice that has the time
> card note details, time, and rate by date). (Such apparently can be done if
> each service has its own code, but the tasks for which I bill are far too
> varied for that to work. All my efforts are in a single service
> code/description.)
>
>  Less frequently, but when I work with attorneys and now with an industrial
> client on a high-dollar-value project, I work on retainer. What I want to
> do
> is enter the monthly retainer (is that in A/R against a retainer invoice
> that needs to be produced once a month strictly for internal use?) and
> produce a statement at the end of the month showing the amounts received
> (this can be a cumulative statement over the life of the project), the time
> expended and expenses incurred, and the running balance. About 18 months
> ago
> Armaghan posted on the wiki the work flow for working with retainers. This
> coming weekend I will look at this again and write the work flow to the
> list
> to ensure that I have it correct. But, how to produce statements that show
> amounts received, due, and the balance?
>
>  I'm not a perl coder, but I do know LaTeX, and I'm willing to help make
> time card invoices and retainer statements easily available for those of us
> in the service industries.
>
> Rich
>
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