change the word "Reference" in fancy-invoice into "Billing ID"?

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed May 17 11:17:27 EDT 2006


Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de> writes:

> Derek Atkins schrieb:
>> There are two sets of Billing IDs.   There's the billing ID from the
>> PoV of the biller, and the ID from the PoV of the billee.  Sometimes
>> you might want to display both IDs, so you need different terms
>> to describe which is your ID and which is your customer's ID.
>> 
>> At least that was the original concept.
>
> Right, and that's a good concept that should be kept. Actually I
> misunderstood the initial request from the german user: He rather asks
> to replace the term "Billing ID" by the term "Reference", and (from what
> he says) both are being used as the ID from the point of view of the biller.

The problem here is that the same interface is used for the inward-
and outward-facing identifications..  It's only a question of how it's
used.  But... Consistency is good.

-derek

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