Re: Purpose of invoice reference number

[adityasharma]

Moving it to user mailing.

Hi Ashish,

As far as my understanding, one scenario could be if there are different
shipments received for a single PO. For different invoices, there may be
the same (external) orderId in the reference number field.

Though it is not my forte.

Thanks and regards
Aditya Sharma


On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 3:13 PM Ashish Pandey <
[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hello Devs,
>
> Currently, we have support to create manual invoice from the Invoice screen
> and after that, we can update the reference number for an invoice from the
> update screen. The same reference number can be assigned to multiple
> invoices.
>
> I was wondering about the purpose of the reference number for the invoice,
> Shouldn't reference number be unique for each invoice?
>
> Please share your thoughts on this. Thank you!
>
> --
> Kind Regards,
> Ashish Pandey
> Enterprise Software Engineer
>
> *HotWax Systems*
> *Enterprise open source experts*
> cell: [phone]
> office: 0731-409-3684
> http://www.hotwaxsystems.com
>

[Jacques Le Roux]

Yes in OFBiz the reference number concept is different from the invoice Id which must be unique

Other systems use the same, eg https://learn.kometsales.com/display/public/KB/Adding+a+reference+number+to+an+invoice where several invoices can use
the same ref #

HTH

Jacques

Le 22/06/2019 à 13:11, Aditya Sharma a écrit :

> Moving it to user mailing.
>
> Hi Ashish,
>
> As far as my understanding, one scenario could be if there are different
> shipments received for a single PO. For different invoices, there may be
> the same (external) orderId in the reference number field.
>
> Though it is not my forte.
>
> Thanks and regards
> Aditya Sharma
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 3:13 PM Ashish Pandey <
> [hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> Hello Devs,
>>
>> Currently, we have support to create manual invoice from the Invoice screen
>> and after that, we can update the reference number for an invoice from the
>> update screen. The same reference number can be assigned to multiple
>> invoices.
>>
>> I was wondering about the purpose of the reference number for the invoice,
>> Shouldn't reference number be unique for each invoice?
>>
>> Please share your thoughts on this. Thank you!
>>
>> --
>> Kind Regards,
>> Ashish Pandey
>> Enterprise Software Engineer
>>
>> *HotWax Systems*
>> *Enterprise open source experts*
>> cell: [phone]
>> office: 0731-409-3684
>> http://www.hotwaxsystems.com
>>