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[Leonardo Pistone <leonardo.pistone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Holger,

can't that be handled with a write-off, leaving the original move
generated by the invoice intact?

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Holger Brunn <hbrunn@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hello community,
>
> in Austria and Germany, you would offer your client a discount when
> paying early. So you write a usual invoice, but the payment terms say
> that you are allowed to subtract 5% of the total amount when paying
> within a week and 3% when paying within two weeks. This is to give
> customers an incentive to pay as soon as possible.
>
> First question: Do other countries have sort-like arrangements and how
> is it called there?
>
> Given that you don't know when the customer is going to pay, you'll
> have to invoice the full amount and see what happens. From the OpenERP
> point of view, this means you'll have to fiddle with the already
> posted move for the invoice.
>
> There is a port of account_cash_discount which implements that:
> https://www.openerp.com/apps/7.0/account_cash_discount_61/ , but with
> some drawbacks (no multiple discounts, too much raw sql in the code
> imho), so I reimplemented that and proposed it to account invoicing:
> https://code.launchpad.net/~therp-nl/account-invoicing/7.0-account_cash_discount/+merge/203359
>
> My second question would be if some Austrian/German (or other
> countries where that's relevant) developers could have a look at it?
> For discussions, we maybe better use the MP instead of the list.
>
> I'll soon start working on the possibility to also accept a
> configurable amount of deviation. Currently, if there's a discount of
> 5%, you have to pay exactly 95% for the magic to work, so if you pay
> EUR95 for a EUR100.10 invoice, it won't be seen as payment with the
> discount. In practice, businesses would want to accept that.
>
> Thanks in advance for your input,
> regards,
> Holger
>
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