Add a little extra information about a sale.

[Mike or Penny Novack]

On 11/29/2016 3:48 AM, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave Ltd) wrote:
> My company produces mainly vector network analyzer calibration kits. Some
> time *after* a sale is made, I would like the ability to add a few bits of
> information,  which would help my business
>
> * The serial number(s) of the kit(s) dispatched to the customer.
> * The courier & tracking number(s).
> * Whether the kit is dispatched in part or complete and on what date(s). if
> it is dispatched on two dates, which is sometimes the case, only one
> payment will be made. The payment is not split.
>
> I appreciate that this information is not really accountancy information,
> but it is all things that allow me to determine if the sale has been
> "completed".
Yes, all important information. But as you noted, not part of the 
ACCOUNTANCY part of it. A total business package might include a "point 
of sales" part, an" inventory" part, etc. with all of these parts 
mutually feeding each other. Other forms of business might have 
different "other parts" they would need. ALL OF THEM would have an 
accounting part.

THAT is what gnucash is, the accounting part. It would be up other teams 
of volunteers to come together to tackle the problem of creating these 
other parts and perhaps still another to create the overall package 
running at the top which connects all these parts (manages the feeds 
going between them). Note that some of these parts can be pretty big 
projects all by themselves. For example, a "point of sale" system has to 
have provisions with working with various "cash register" and "card 
reader" hardware << and of course it would also feed inventory >>

Michael D Novack