Hi, although at TUL we discussed a little bit about payment terms with the german guys, and it seems that is not much of a problem for them, I'd like to explain a little bit the improvements we're working on, and which we already discussed with B2CK.
The idea is to remove "PaymentTermLineDelay" (which lets the user choose between netdays and end of the month). And replace it with three fields: "months", "days" and "day". Note that months is not the same as 30 days as with months with more or less than exactly 30 days, the due date is different, and that is important in Spain. For the "day" it will be possible to set "31" as a replacement for "end of the month". "PaymentTermLineType" is also replaced by a selection field which will allow four options. The existing "fixed", "percent" and "remainder" as well as the new "division" option. The latter is more intuitive as allows users to say that the amount is divided by 3 instead of setting the "33.333333" percent. Another important change is that the whole invoice amount will be passed to payment term lines for calculation instead of the remainder. This means that if an invoice is splitted in three payments, you currently must configure: first => 33.33333 percent second => 50 percent third => remainder With this change: first => 33.33333 percent second => 33.33333 percent third => remainder This makes amounts more predictable (apart from being able use the division option). Out of the standard account_invoice module we're working on two new modules: account_payment_days and account_payment_holidays. *account_payment_days* will add a new field to party's where one ore more payment days can be configured. That is, if the party has days 10 and 20 as payment days, and after applying the party's payment term the due date is the 5th, it will be moved to the 10th. If the due date is the 11th it will be moved to the 20th (if it's in the 21th, it will be moved to the 10th of next month). *account_payment_holidays* will depend on account_payment_days and will allow to configure per party payment holidays. That is, periods in which the party will not pay and the due date will automatically be moved after the holidays. Regarding this module I hesitate how to do it. Should we have a party_holidays module in which we could set when the party closes for holidays? Also, in many companies, those holiday are recurring each year. Any idea on how to make that smart so users do not need to input the holidays each year? Then, the account_payment_holidays module could add the "does not pay on holidays" checkbox. Opinions? -- Albert Cervera i Areny http://www.NaN-tic.com Tel: +34 93 553 18 03 http://twitter.com/albertnan http://www.nan-tic.com/blog -- tryton-dev@googlegroups.com mailing list
