[freeside-users] Generate invoices early?

[Charles Sprickman]

> On Apr 7, 2018, at 2:06 PM, Brian Mine <bbooker45 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Nathan, 
> 
> Thanks for your help with this. Unfortunately I'm still stuck. I tried it on a test/dummy account as:
> 
> freeside-daily -d date --date='+1 month' +%m/1/%y freeside 012.
> 
> That tried to pass off  +%m/1/%y as the user. If you would kindly
> point out my rookie error it'll be much appreciated. 

You want to execute the date command, so put backticks (`) around it.

For example:

freeside-daily -d `date --date='+1 month' +%m/1/%y` freeside 012

That will execute the command between the backticks.

Charles

> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> On Sat, Apr 7, 2018, 11:22 AM Nathan Kennedy <nathan at nkent.us <mailto:nathan at nkent.us>> wrote:
> On Sat, 2018-04-07 at 13:51 +0000, Brian Mine wrote:
>> We bill on the 1st of the month. How do we set freeside-daily to generate the invoices around the 25th of the previous month?
> Hello Brian,
> 
> You need to run freeside-daily with the -d flag and pass the appropriate date to it. You can do this using the date command, for example:
> date --date='+1 month' +%m/1/%y returns a date showing the first of the next month.
> 
> You also need to schedule things properly in your freeside users crontab so on every day but your billing day it runs normally and on the billing day it runs freeside-daily normally and then the freeside-daily with the -d flag defined.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Nathan Kennedy
> Contracted Professional IT
> (360) 637-1090
> https://www.nkent.us/ <https://www.nkent.us/>_______________________________________________
> freeside-users mailing list
> freeside-users at freeside.biz <mailto:freeside-users at freeside.biz>
> http://mail.freeside.biz/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freeside-users <http://mail.freeside.biz/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freeside-users>
> _______________________________________________
> freeside-users mailing list
> freeside-users at freeside.biz
> http://mail.freeside.biz/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freeside-users

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.freeside.biz/pipermail/freeside-users/attachments/20180407/034a1626/attachment-0001.html>