Quantity total below create / view / edit invoice

[Ronal B Morse]

On 10/19/2017 05:24 AM, Amish wrote:
>
>
> On Thursday 19 October 2017 03:27 PM, Maf. King wrote:
>> On Thursday, 19 October 2017 10:35:53 BST Amish wrote:
>>> On Thursday 19 October 2017 01:00 PM, Geert Janssens wrote:
>>>> Op donderdag 19 oktober 2017 02:56:27 CEST schreef Amish:
>>>>> Hello
>>>>>
>>>>> Recently in India GST was implemented.
>>>>>
>>>>> The government requires to report sale / purchase quantity too in
>>>>> invoice.
>>>>>
>>>>> When I create / view / edit invoice, I can see Invoice total and tax
>>>>> total in status bar.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is it possible to add Quantity total too? Or is there any other way?
>>>> The only way I see is to create your own custom invoice report, 
>>>> which will
>>>> unfortunately require you to write some code in the guile/scheme 
>>>> language.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Geert
>>> I think you are mixing my query with a similar query posted earlier 
>>> today.
>>>
>>> I am not talking about reports. But I am talking about "Invoice tab"
>>> that is opened when feeding data about Invoice.
>>>
>>> As we keep adding "Invoice items", the status bar shows "Total, 
>>> Subtotal
>>> and tax total"
>>>
>>> I think it would be nice if "Quantity" total is also shown in status 
>>> bar.
>>>
>>> This would require source code changes and not guile/scheme.
>>>
>>> Thanks and regards,
>>>
>>> Amish
>> Hi Amish,
>>
>> Whilst I don't ignore the stupid rules that tax authorities around 
>> the world
>> dream up, I don't understand how summing the quantities of line items 
>> on an
>> invoice is in any way useful.
>>
>> E.g. your customer buys 1 bulk box containing 10 widgets (line 1 - 
>> and costing
>> less than 10 individual widgets) and 3 sprockets (line 2).  you list 
>> those on
>> the invoice as quantities 1 and 3.  What use is the number 4? your 
>> customer
>> has 13 discrete items...
>>
>> I completely can see that the line item quantity numbers should be 
>> shown on
>> the invoice, and a government could mandate that. If they really do 
>> want a
>> "total quantity" shown at the bottom of the invoice, then that would 
>> be the GC
>> invoice template that needs a mod, not the register window?
>>
>> 0.02
>> Maf.
>
> I agree if units are different then quantity makes no sense. But in my 
> case its always "PCS" (pieces) so it should help a bit.
>
> Also we dont have to print quantity on Invoice but every month we have 
> to file tax return which mentions HSN code of item and number of 
> pieces sold.
>
> I know its crazy but then who can say anything to Government?
>
> I will try to see if I can learn report templates.
>
> Thanks all for replies.
>
> Amish.
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This is really starting to sound like a job for some sort of inventory 
control software, not an accounting package.

Regards.