[freeside] Our humongous patch
ivan
ivan at 420.am
Mon Dec 11 12:03:39 PST 2000
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 11:29:25PM -0800, Kristian Hoffmann wrote:
>
> On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, ivan wrote:
>
> > > Removed cust_credit and merged it into cust_pay so credits would apply to
> > > invoices after they were created. Because of this, we can remove
> > > the cust_bill.owed field and calculate invoice balances on the fly.
> > > This removes the ability to post a credit before an invoice is
> > > generated. Included script fix-credits converts old-style credits
> > > into new credits.
> >
> > Hmm, I'm all for removing the cust_bill.owed field, but I would prefer
> > to keep cust_credit.
>
> Yes, removing cust_credit was not entirely necessary. The main problem we
> were having was that people in billing would credit an invoice and then
> re-order another package. Since the credits were being issued after the
> invoices, they weren't being calculated into the owed fields in
> cust_bill. The cust_bill->owed method fixes that though. I forgot what
> my point was.
Can't help you with that :), but like I said, I totally agree with moving
owed from a database field to a dynamically calculated method.
> Actually, would you mind adding a patch for cust_bill->void
> method? Voiding an invoice would be a cleaner way to cancel it rather
> than issuing credits.
What would you want voiding an invoice to do, precisely?
> In general, freeside works properly and does the
> right thing (tm). The problem is the people that wait until after they've
> been billed to decide they want to change packages.
>
> Narf,
>
> -Kristian Hoffmann
> <khoff at pc-intouch.com>
>
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_ivan
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