[freeside] Starting/Previous Balance(s)

[Steve Poirier]

What we do is that we manually enter packages for the customers the day they
must be rebilled and when the balance is zero. On the other hand, for the
customers who have a contract of 1 year, this method can seem not to be a
good one but almost all of our customers are billed monthly or every two
months. I think this is better than adding customized packages or applying
credits, it's more "clean". But if you find a way to add a prior balance
without having to play with packages, let me know :)

Steve Poirier
Inet Technologies Inc.
http://www.inet-technologies.com


> On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Jay Benfield wrote:
>
> > All of our users are now setup in Freeside with the exception of
> > their prior balances. The only spot I see in the documentation
> > pertaining to prior balances is in the FS::cust_bill man page (i.e.
> > $total_previous_balance). I did not see anything in the schema
> > document that jumps out me as a place to insert such data.
> >
> > What table/field is previous balance information retained in?
> >
> The only way to do what your talking about at this point in development is
> to create a invoice using cust_bill with your previous balance.  Generate
> an invoice that has the past amount due for the customer.
>
> man FS::cust_bill
>
>
>
> > Thank you in advance.
> >
> > - Jay
> >
> >
>
> --Adam
>
>