Hello all.
The subject says it all. I have a couple of recurring invoices set up for the first day of every month. However, sometimes i don’t get to generate my sales invoices that day, and get to it a couple of days later. When i finally do get to it the invoices are generated with the date of the first, but i’d like it to instead generate them with the date they’re being generated on.
After all, it’s not the customers fault if i’m a couple of days late in making there invoices, but as it stands now i need to go to each invoice and correct the date.
Is there a way to make this happen? and if not, could it be considered as a feature request?
No, there is no way. I also doubt you will see your suggestion as a feature. For everyone like you who wants a flexible recurring invoice, there are more who expect their recurring invoices to match the way they are set up. And how would you handle the next invoice? Would you delay it? However you would answer, others would have different opinions. Soon, the options become unwieldy. The philosophy behind recurring transactions is that they are standardized.
Also, I don3 quite understand the problem in creating an invoice on 4th of May and dating it 1st May
Not all accounting transactions are entered on the date they actually occur - I often receive invoices from my gas supplier days after the date on the invoice
I for one understand your request and would support an enhancement request (idea) to be able to do this. Thinking of due dates and terms on invoices, even more so. However, I also understand that there are more import ideas which should get attention. For the moment, I would recommend that you create the invoices and use the Batch Update function to change the date to the day when the invoices are generated.