[freeside] Starting/Previous Balance(s)

[ivan]

On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 09:50:36AM -0400, Jeff Finucane wrote:
> "Jay Benfield" <jayb at fli-online.com> wrote on Wed, 1 Aug 2001 08:05:28 -0400:
> 
> +----------
> | Thank you for the response.That being the case do you have any
> | recommendations as to the most effective way to add prior balances?
> +----------
> 
>   You could create a package called 'Starting Balance' and sell it
> to them.  Adjust the price as neccessary.

Yes, this is what to do with the current system.

In the future, this is what the database would do internally, but
eventually I'd like the user-interface and the Perl API to offer a
one-step way to "add a starting balance" that does this underneath. 

I'm also thinking it might be necessary for accouting reasons to add a
flag to these charges and payments against them, so you can run totals and
reports ignoring them.  Not sure about this.

-- 
meow
_ivan