improper invoice payments work-around

[Andrew Sackville-West]

On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 16:31:27 -0500
Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Andrew Sackville-West <andrew at farwestbilliards.com> writes:
> 
> > IIRC, the invoice handling is NOT FIFO, but more like a bucket. all
> > the amounts get accumulated into one total for the
> > customer/vendor. You are really just paying down that total amount,
> > not paying off specific invoices. I think the little check-marks
> > that show which invoice is paid are merely to show how far back you
> > are(?).
> 
> Actually, it is FIFO. 

my mistake, or misubderstanding. I thought the checking off of invoices was more eye candy than anything else. I see now. thanks

A

 The usual complaint is the inability to pay to
> a specific invoice.  I had never thought of having two invoices posted
> at different times with the same due date, so I just didn't consider
> that case to make sure it was deterministic.  oops.
> 
> Can you file a bug report on this, please?
> 
> -derek
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