you also might want to change line 1006 to
$msg = _("Dear") . " " . $contact['name'] . ",\n\n"

77

(5 replies, posted in Items and Inventory)

I think I'll go the phpmyadmin route for what I need.

another reason the date is in the invoice it's also to give the illusion to your customer that you do more volume sales. most people don't realise that the front numbers are actually the date, and because it change a lot from there previous invoice, they can not figure out what your sell volume is.

yes, correct icon#10 can be remove since clicking on your invoice number dose the same thing

the problem with drop down box is about multi user platform, think iPad, mobile phone browsers etc. it become harder to navigate plus it will take a lot more TIME in the work flow.

the one thing that FA it's weak about, in my opinion it's the navigation workflow and menu. dashboard theme uses a better menu, but the drop down part it's just not efficient, specially using mobile and tablets devices.

it's all about TIME in your business

Here’s how my current invoice system work now; view the screen picture here: http://oi38.tinypic.com/25svj0k.jpg

I numbered each box and the explanation for it is bellow

1.    Invoice number. The format it’s YY-MM-DD- XXXX (this will help you identify the invoice faster when the customer call with questions. Customer reference or sidemark
2.    Company name with direct link to customer edit page (similar to sales/manage/customers.php? in FA)
3.    Contact person with direct link to branch edit page
4.    Invoice date
5.    Invoice amount
Status box I forgot to number, but that will tell you if the invoice its: open, paid, deposit, refund, late
6.    Email invoice to customer, or re-email invoice to customer. If the invoice it’s late the template text of the email change automatically to reflect that the invoice it’s late and we require payment asap (or other instructions) . Also every time you send an email, a time stamp will be entered in database so you’ll know when that email was sent. 
7.    User assignment for invoice. This allow customer to login in to the front end of the website and view there invoices. The pop up box will allow you to create new user account for login or assign the existing user I have on the website to login.
8.    Shipping info. If the invoice has been shipped, you’ll see the green box, otherwise just a black bar will show
9.    View invoice in a pop up window
10.    Edit invoice
11.    Save/download PDF invoice
12.    Save/download PDF packing list
13.    Print
14.    Mark invoice as paid. (this will not apply to FA since the workflow it’s different)
15.    Delete
16.    Sales man info. Pop up info related to sale man, commission info , email sales man the invoice

Almost all activities in this page happen in an ajax pop up page, so you’ll never live the main page (no back and forth on your browser)

80

(5 replies, posted in Items and Inventory)

i was going to use that for both, new items and customers

i tried to find some instructions on how to use textcart module and i can seem to find it anywhere. i'm trying to import my inventory and customer to FA the fastest way and i understand that's the best way..
any help will be appreciated.
thanks

yes, hyperlinks it's all it need. link info together for a better flow... (the more the better)
in my current invoice system that I use, i have 10 links in invoices view page (similar page with sales order inquiry)
The links are:
- email invoice to customer (one click and you'll email or re-email the invoice to your customer, also once you send the email the database will be stamped with date and time so later you know when the email was send, in case customer will say "I did not receive your bill"
- user manager (customer can login and view invoices online, front page of the site only)
- order shipping status - yellow and green light ( this will show if the order is shipped or not)
- view order
- edit order
- download/print as PDF file
- packing list
- print
- pay order
- delete order
- sales man info for this order (pop up view page with commission calculation and the option to email sale man this order - sales people love to know they have commission check coming soon )

i added all this futures because it save me a lot of time when i need to look for it + when i have a customer on the phone waiting for me to answer questions about order/delivery/invoices he will not have to wait for me 5 min to find the answer to his question

I know Joe, but assume you customer call you with a question about invoice#123 that was processed a few weeks ago, how do you access that info the fastest way. Reference# = my invoice#

how can i show the invoice# (if invoice exist for this order) in the Sales Order Inquiry page. This way, if the customer call and have questions about the order you can access all his info from one page, instead of going back and forth...( if he call/email and refer to the invoice# with questions)
This "view" is also helpfully to know what Orders are already invoiced and what's not.
Same idea can apply for delivery notes so you have a better control/info from one page. Time it's money, let's make it easy and FAST...

also link Customer name to: sales/manage/customers.php - this way, you have direct link to more detail info about the customer and his transaction FAST

i get a 500 internal server error accessing any Dashboard page
also from Setup/Miscellaneous/ i can not access the 2 links: setup and reminder

much better smile thank you, you're the man

is there a way to send an remind email to overdue account? something  like:

{contact_name},

Unfortunately, we have not received payment for invoice # {invoice_number} - sidemark: {sidemark}. We kindly request that you make the payment as soon as possible.

Invoice due date: {invoice_due_date}

is there a page to access to keep track of invoices or overdue invoices? I'm thinking something like the "sale order inquiry" but for invoices.
I know you can access invoices from "customer and sales report" but that's a lot of back and forth and not very productive specially when you have a hundred+ invoices a month to keep up with.

also, a way to resend invoices by email. my customers are always ask to resend invoices or tracking info.

thank you

88

(7 replies, posted in Accounts Receivable)

i thought so to, but it will not for some reason...

89

(7 replies, posted in Accounts Receivable)

That did not worked but i change line 270 in to this

        _("Order #") => array('fun'=>'view_link', 'ord'=>'asc'),

This will allow me to short by asc/desc but not by default. Once you navigate back from page, and come back you'll have to press "order#" again to rearrange the order...

is there a way to view all sales order in DESC mode/order by default?
i'm trying to figure this out to see if I can use FA for my company. We have hundreds of orders/invoices per month and it's very hard to keep track with invoices + overdue invoices if they are on the back of the list.

I can hack the php code to do this if i can get some pointers since i'm new here smile
thanks