Re: Implementing Oracle question about invoicing

You can write a perl script that takes standard invoice file as an input and print off whatever you want to show on the invoice.

Shariq

In article <6nel1k$5ik$1_at_news.onramp.net>,   todlewis_at_onramp.nospam.net (Todd Lewis) wrote:
>
> My company is is the initial stages of implementing Oracle.
> The question has arisen on how to handle the invoicing aspects.
> Our needs in invoicing are somewhat different than what oracle
> provides as a standard. We don't sell this number of widgets
> at this price.
>
> Our invoicing can be considered project specific. A brief
> discription of work done then a price for said work. We have
> a third party developing a production module to do this job
> tracking for us. They will tranfer all of the needed information
> to invoice the job.
>
> The problem arises in handling taxes associated with job.
> A job can have mutiple final products that ship to various
> taxable juristictions. Total sales is divided by the number
> of final product and taxed accordingly.
>
> The customer only wants to see the job description, a brief
> paragraph of the job, sales price and break down of sales tax
> (how much to which state).
>
> The current software that we use enables us to seperate out what
> the customer sees and then hide all of detail from them all within
> the invoice. Only certain line items are printed on the invoice.
>
> Can this be done in oracle as well. We are not using the inventory
> module, the raw materials used just don't track down easily to an
> item sold plus an item sells at different levels depending on work
> and customer.
>
> The documentation in the oracle books seem to dance around this.
> Or it only wants to deal with Item quantity and price.
>
>

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