They are used to setup payment terms like these:
a) "the order needs to be paid for 50% after 30 days, and the
remaining 50% after 60 days"
b) "the order needs to be paid for 50% after 30 days, and 30% after 60
and the remaining 10% after 90 days".
To do a) you will use "Payment net days, part 1" and "Payment net
days, part 2" properly setting the termDays and termValue fields; to
do c) you will use "Payment net days, part 1", "Payment net days, part
2" and "Payment net days, part 3"
You set the terms in the order, they are then copied to the invoice:
then you will be able to see (in the invoice detail screen) the
payment breakdown by due date; there is also another report that makes
use of them (under the "Payment" menu, you will find its link at the
top of the screen... something like "find payments by due date")
Jacopo
On Jun 29, 2009, at 1:24 PM, Joe Eckard wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone could clarify the difference between these
> different term types...
>
> "Payment (net days)" is of a term type: FINANCIAL_TERM
>
> while
>
> "Payment net days, part 1"
> "Payment net days, part 2"
> "Payment net days, part 3"
>
> are of the type: FIN_PAYMENT_TERM, which is a subtype of
> FINANCIAL_TERM.
>
> I did a full text search for the "part 1 / 2 / 3" term types, but
> couldn't find any usages in the project to help determine what they
> were.
>
>
> -Joe