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Re: End of month payment

 

Hi, Frédéric,

Do you think a community module can be the solution? Let's make one if you
want!

Regards.


2014-02-03 Frédéric Clementi <frederic.clementi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> There is at least 1 bug (already reported to OpenERP without success). Try
> to set a payment at '30 days, on the 15th', OpenERP will pick up the wrong
> month :
> ie : invoice dated on the 20/01 -> expected due date : 15/03
>
> To me, this functionnality (field days2 in account.payment.terms.line) is
> buggy for ages unless you make it a boolean field (net or end of month) but
> you cannot input any day here.
>
> About you initial topic : I agree that not working in calendar month is
> pretty annoying for accountants but 'exact days' are 'acceptable' so we
> live with that... A module to set calendar days would be great.
>
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> 2014-02-03 Pedro Manuel Baeza Romero <pedro.baeza@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> Hi, here in Spain, people also refers usually 30 days as a month, but
>> that's not true in such extreme cases like the one presented on the link
>> (the 1st of january). BTW, a lot of spanish software compute the term in
>> the same way as OpenERP does, so we usually include in the sale invoice the
>> payment terms for notifying customers the calculated ones, so that they can
>> change them in their software if there is no match. Any discrepance (they
>> want to delay the payment another month, for example), is agreed by
>> conventional methods, and change accordingly in both software.
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>>
>> 2014-02-03 Leonardo Pistone <leonardo.pistone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>> Hi Sergio,
>>>
>>> Thanks for pointing that out: this complaint shows up a lot in Italy.
>>> Still, I think the default OpenERP behaviour should not be changed.
>>>
>>> When OpenERP says "30 days end of month" it really means count 30
>>> days, and then go to the end of the current month. That works just
>>> fine, there is no bug and I suggest keeping it like that.
>>>
>>> The problem is different: in places like Italy (or elsewhere, can
>>> anyone confirm this?) when people say "30 days end of month" they
>>> really mean "next month, end of month".
>>>
>>> So even though it goest against is the current habit (at least in
>>> Italy), I would keep the feature as it is and then a community module
>>> can add as an extra feature the ability to choose months instead of
>>> days ("next month, end of month", "two months, end of month" and so
>>> on).
>>>
>>> I am also in favour of adding a label of something like that to make
>>> the point clear.
>>>
>>> best
>>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 10:36 PM, Sergio Corato <sergiocorato@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hello Guys,
>>> > I wish to know if you agree with this position
>>> > https://answers.launchpad.net/openobject-addons/+question/222445
>>> >
>>> > In Italy, end of month payment is computed by months (e.g. 90 days end
>>> of
>>> > month payment from any day of january is 04-30-YYYY).
>>> >
>>> > Anyway, the patch for this "opinion" is trivial, I already committed
>>> it in
>>> > our branch.
>>> > --
>>> > Sergio Corato
>>> >
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