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Re: Invoice Sent Date

From: Shawn Hogan
Date: Wednesday, March 1, 2000
Time: 8:28:01 pm

George A. Ruzzier Jr. wrote:

>I know it wasn't sent. But who cares... it is "closed"?
>
>We create a lot of invoices for our development work which don't get
>sent out right away.
>
>We run a report for empty Sent Dates to make sure we get them out
>eventually. Now I have to weed through all the closed invoices with
>blank Sent Dates. It seems to me that if the invoice gets closed out
>during a billing, that the logic could also put the close date in the
>Sent Date field at the same time.
>
>What would that hurt if it is being closed anyway?

It would hurt the integrety of the data. What if a customer calls and a
disputing that he got an invoice, and to your employees, it's looking
like he got it because it has a sent date. I just think it's a bad idea.

Why not just search for OPEN invoices with no sent on date for your query?

- Shawn

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Shawn D. Hogan
President, Digital Point Solutions
http://www.digitalpoint.com
(858) 452-3696


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