[GNC] How Jobs Work ( was Re: Business Account Set Up Question & Customer Billing Question)

[Adrien Monteleone]

Aha!

‘Purchase Order’ is easier to grok for this.

Would that be a terribly difficult fix? Would a bug report be welcome or are there messy implications by changing it? At least one I can think of would be users wanting to create a single ‘PO’ document (with line items) independent of bills/invoices. I think I’ve seen that question already on the list.

And thank you for the clarifications!

Regards,
Adrien

> On Aug 23, 2018, at 8:23 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:
> 
> Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> writes:
> 
>> Yes, thank you Derek,
>> 
>> I was describing it backwards.
>> 
>> A single invoice can have only one job and a single job can’t be used
>> with multiple vendors. (or multiple customers, but I would think that
>> to be a very rare case)
>> 
>> So in addition to the first case, there is also the limitation that
>> you also can’t buy supplies from multiple vendors on the same job.
>> 
>> Or did I confuse that as well?
> 
> No, you go it right.   Think of a job as a "vendor contract", a way to
> link multiple vendor bills together for some purpose.  I suppose I
> should have named it "Purchase Order".
> 
>> The other part I never could understand was not being able to use the
>> same ‘job’ for both a customer and a vendor. So even following the
>> above limitations, I can’t use a job on a vendor bill to rebill a
>> customer AND assign that job on the customer’s invoice?
> 
> See above.  A "job" is really a misnomer.  The idea was more like a
> "Purchase Order" (PO).  A PO is a way to link multiple invoices
> together, but a PO is only valid to a single customer or single vendor.
> 
>> I’m also not quite understanding your last caveat. So the Job is then
>> not an extra layer of info, but replaces the Vendor/Customer? I think
>> I’m truly lost now on the feature and its purpose.
> 
> Internally that is correct.  Because a Job (PO) has only a single
> customer (or vendor), you can use a Job instead -- so the "Owner" of an
> invoice can be a Job (which implies a customer).
> 
>> Regards,
>> Adrien
> 
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> -derek
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