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Re: [Openerp-expert-accounting] About Prepayment in ecommerce workflow

 

Hi,

On 11/16/2013 09:28 AM, Eric Caudal wrote:
Hi,
There is an aspect of OpenERP which seems to not very well implemented
while it is wildly spread in accounting practices: prepayment treatment.
In many countries (all?), prepayment accounts have to be different from
the AR/AP general account for the mere reason that they are on the other
side of the BS. This behavior is at least true in China, NZ, UK, AU and
probably in any anglo-saxon accounting countries.

We have created a simple module for this (
https://apps.openerp.com/apps/7.0/account_prepayment) to create a
separate property for AR and AP prepayments. In every implementation I
have in accounting, the prepayment strategy is a problem in standard
implementation that we can solve with this very simple module (my point
is that this module or similar should be actually a standard module).

In ecommerce sales strategy where payment is made on website, we can
rely on several modules such as sale_payment_method and
sale_automatic_workflow to automate the payment. Nevertheless, they rely
on the AR account to create the prepayment transaction which in my
opinion is not correct.
NB: This could probably be even more complex as for certain payment
method, account should "Uncleared Payments".

Not sure about that here... Frédéric's opinion is welcome :-)


I am thinking of adapting the sale_payment_method to make it dependent
on the account_prepayment and add a tickbox "Use prepayment accounts" in
payment method and automatic_payment method.

I think that's not the correct way: you should rather create a third module with 'auto_install' on "account_prepayment" and "sale_payment_method", so when both are installed you get the tickbox "Use prepayment accounts".



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