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[Alain Rivet <alain.rivet@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hallo,

I confirm, there are many uses for proforma invoices. Normally, it's
always to give an indication of value of the goods, but there is no
mandatory relation with the sales price ! I confirm the miss-using
explained by Jan Verlaan (Veritos) #4 as "invoice" or "quotation"  for
pre-payment in many situation (web sales is an example).

>From my point of view & experience, in EEC a pro forma should never post
in the accounting and of course  if no posting its not possible to have
an accounting document number (but well a number range out of the
accounting number ranges. For the other countries a did implementation
(China, Japan, US, ...) I never met another use.

Kind regards
Alain

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pro-forma invoices: documentation doesn't match implementation
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Bug description:
I'm not an international accountant, but it seems the term "pro-forma invoice" is ambiguous and can describe 2 kind of invoices, and unfortunately there is an ambiguity about what pro-forma invoices are supposed to be in OpenERP: with or without accounting moves attached.

The manual reads "A Pro Forma invoice doesn’t yet have an invoice number, but the accounting entries on the invoice that’s created correspond to the amounts that Open ERP will record as the customer’s payables": http://doc.openerp.com/book/3/3_7/accounting_workflow.html#open-or-pro-forma-invoices
This is one way of managing pro-forma invoices: an invoice without a number, with accounting entries. It seems to be a disputable practice, and it's forbidden here in France, but in some places people seem to understand "pro-forma invoices" this way however.

But in the implementation of v5.0, pro-forma invoices really are invoices without a number and without accounting entries. French people (among others) understand "pro-forma invoices" this way.

So, either the doc is wrong or the implementation is wrong - but it has to be settled and fixed.
Lionel.