Hi All, We are busy upgrading from 3.X to 4.X and while it looks a lot better i also am missing some things or want it somewhat else. One of those things is that in the old version our invoice numbering was consecutive numbering and this also made it easy to check payments and acounts against each other. for example i look in the list with amember orders or a client gives the order number if he has a problem and if i need to check number 54123 i just logged in to the adminpanel of our payment provider and could just follow the list and find the payment within seconds. now with the new amember way the client sees the number 5ZMZ4 in his payment history (and on his invoice) and I see 3/5ZMZ4. Is there a way to have the invoices be adjustable or in the way it used to be?
I don't see any problems with such numbering. You can use Quick Search at top left and search by these numbers.
Thanks for the prompt reply. It seems better for communication between us and the customers if you are talking about the same numbers. and yes of course can i use the search box. But it is also a rule in the Netherlands that invoice number is done sequentially. From the website of the dutch tax office: Invoice requirements Your invoices must satisfy a number of statutory requirements. You must state a number of basic details on all invoices, such as your VAT number, the VAT amount and the invoice date. The invoices must also be numbered sequentially. If you provide goods/services to another EU Member State, you must also indicate your customer’s VAT number. In addition, you must specify what goods or services were provided and when. Rene
I'm bumping this as I too would like to know if it's possible to switch the invoice numbering to something different. For me, I just would like a standard invoice NUMBER without any letters in it, and it needs to be longer than the default. It's just standard practice, at least in the US, and nearly every company I work with and purchase things from uses an 8 to 12 numerical invoice number which increases sequentially. In the grand scheme of things its not THAT big of a deal, however I can think of a lot of different reasons why being able to specify the invoice pattern, sequence or at least the first invoice number (which the system increases automatically after the first) would be a good thing and somewhat essential to certain companies. Is it possible to do this in the current version or would there need to be a revision of the code to do so easily?
This is just a matter of displaying invoices for user. aMember already have internal invoice number that is numbers and this number increases sequentially. If you want to start from some specific number change auto_icrement value in am_invoice MySQL datable. Then use $invoice->invoice_id to display invoices. Although this will require customizations in aMember source code.