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Works for me, Joe.  Thanks!

Regards,

Chris

FYI, I'm fairly new to FA too, so I'm still learning about how it works too.

Yes, the Direct Invoice function allows you to enter a supplier invoice without having to create a purchase order and goods received note.  There's also a Direct Invoice function in the sales modules which allows you to invoice a customer without going through the quotation -> order -> deliver -> invoice process.  I use both the sales and purchasing Direct Invoice functions because I'm a small, one-man operation so I seldom need to go through the full processes.  The only time I use the Sales Quotation function is if I'm asked for a quotation and the customer insists on a formal, written quote.  Other than that, I skip right to the invoice.

Another set of functionalities you might want to look into are Quick Entries.  When using the Direct Invoice functions in sales and purchasing, you must create an item and supplier/customer.  The Quick Entry functions allow you to bypass all that and post entries directly to the GL.  I use quick entries for repetitive monthly entries (e.g. rent, utilities, etc.) and for one-time transactions where it isn't worth the time/effort to set-up a customer/supplier and/or item.  As well, you can use quick entries to do some pretty fancy calculations before posting the transaction.  For instance, I work out of my home so my monthly rent and utilities quick entries do an automatic split between personal and business costs, and only posts the business costs to my GL.  It's a bit complex to figure it out at first, but ver handy once you do.  Check it out!

Anyway, I'm glad my comments were helpful.  I'm not a programmer so I can't contribute much on the technical side of FA, but I do try and contribute on the non-technical side when I can.

Regards,

Chris

Did that.  No change.    I still get the 500 error but when I refresh the page I get in.

Regards,

Chris

Again, it's best to talk to your accountant about the best way to establish your chart of accounts and items to meet your business needs.  I'm only offering "things to think about" as opposed to accounting advice.  Your requirements will be unique to your specific business, so only you can decide what's "best" for your business.

The same comments I made before apply whether you're only recording expenses or whether you're recording both revenues and expenses for an item.  Since you're creating "service" items for domains, nothing is hitting inventory so all tracking/analysis takes place through GL reports (trial balance, balance sheet, income/expense, etc.)  If you don't need to separately track/analyze expenses for internal domains, then creating one item called "internal domains" will do.  But, if you need to analyze/track expenses for internal-only domains separately, then your choices are:

• create individual items for each internal domain, or

• create separate GL expense accounts for each internal domain

The latter way (separate GL expense accounts for each internal domain) gets messy quickly, but if you only have one or two internal domains and not a lot of GL expense accounts it's doable.

Anyway, the "bottom line" is what you think your future reporting/tracking/analyzing needs are going to be.  Think very long and hard about this NOW, before you start entering transactions into FA.  While you can change things around later, it gets quite time-consuming and messy doing so, and you'll lose the consistency and continuity in your records.  So, it's better to decide one way or another now and stick to it rather than rushing into a decision and finding out later it should have been done another way.

Hope all this is helpful.  Again, maybe have a chat with your accountant.

Regards,

Chris

After a bit of sleep....

Okay, I checked and when I install the extension it creates the directory modules/rep_stock_movement but it doesn't add the report to reporting/reports_main.php.  I tried to manually add this to reports_main.php:

$reports->addReport(RC_INVENTORY,"_stock_movement",_('Stock &Movement Report'),
    array(    _('Inventory Category') => 'CATEGORIES',
            _('Location') => 'LOCATIONS',
            _('From Date') => 'DATE',
            _('To Date') => 'DATE',
            _('Comments') => 'TEXTBOX',
            _('Destination') => 'DESTINATION'));                

That adds the report to the Reports and Analysis screen.  I can now bring up the report but when I click on Display: Stock Movement Report I get this error:  Cannot find report file '_stock_movement'.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

Regards,

Chris

Actually, I went into Standard Cost in Items and Inventory, and it shows $1.81 for Item "B" and $0.00 for Item "A" which is exactly what was used to move the value of the items from Inventory to COGS when I made the sale.  So I went ahead and correct the amounts.

The question is, how the heck did those costs get there???  I did a random check of the Standard Cost for various other items and they are all correct...  they're the purchase cost when I bought the items from suppliers.

That's really weird!  Is there a report/query I can run that will show all of the standard costs for all items so I can easily check everything?

Not that I remember.  I did void a sales invoice for the sale of the two items because the account coding was all messed up, but that appeared to process correctly.  Maybe that caused the problem?

Anyway, I'll keep an eye on things and let you know if I find any more such quirks.

Thanks for your help!

Regards,

Chris

In case it will help, I did a screenshot of the page info in Firefox for one of the instances when the login bombed with a 500 error.  Since I can't upload it here, it is available for viewing here.  As well, a search of the logs for my site found the following line:

70.67.201.56 - - [19/Jan/2013:12:23:46 -0500] "POST /accounting/ HTTP/1.1" 500 568 "https://www.crazychris.ca/accounting/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0"

Hope that is helpful to someone...

Regards,

Chris

2.3.13

My site is hosted by HostPapa.  Here's some info on their setup:

Operating system     linux
Architecture     x86_64
Kernel version     2.6.32-379.9.1.lve1.1.9.7.2.el6.x86_64
Apache version     2.2.23
PHP version     5.3.20
MySQL version     5.5.28-cll
Perl version     5.10.1

Btw, I have the following in my includes/session.inc file in case it's useful:

// ini_set('session.save_path', dirname(__FILE__).'/../tmp/');

ini_set('session.gc_maxlifetime', 36000); // 10hrs
ini_set('session.cache_limiter', 'nocache'); // prevent 'page expired' errors

$Session_manager = new SessionManager();
$Session_manager->sessionStart('FA'.md5(dirname(__FILE__)));

// this is to fix the "back-do-you-want-to-refresh" issue - thanx PHPFreaks
header("Cache-control: nocache");

Hopefully the info provided above will help someone track down the problem and fix it.  In the meantime, it's no big deal...  I'll just keep refreshing the page when I login.

Regards,

Chris

DUH!!!!

It's in the Wiki.

Sorry for wasting time/space with a very dumb question!  (blush!)

Regards,

Chris

Sounds like it's going to have some great new features!  I'm looking forward to it coming out!

Thanks for the info...

Regards,

Chris