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On Tuesday 30 March 2010, you wrote:
> In spain pro-forma invoice have no number no account movements. Account
> movements are only registered when invoice is valid. That is when
> invoice number has been generated.
> 
Here, too.
AFAIK there is no formal definition for Pro-Forma in Greece. So, we use them as 
an internal way to tell our customers what the real invoice will be like 
(little more formal than "draft") and then actually issue the invoice. Thus, 
we shall not have account movements.

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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.