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Hi folks,
I do like your extension, which I just purchased yesterday (the extended version of Invoice Mnager).... however....
I have read the forum (and the documentation), and it has answered my main and urgent question ------- there is no integration with VM, where VM creates an invoice, it emails this to the customer ----- it would seem that Invoice Manager cannot do this?
1. Currently a SECOND invoice is ALSO created in Invoice Manager....... I understand that this happens, but it is a real pain I T A.
Are there any plans to fully integrate with VM, ie, to have VM send the invoice created by Invoice Manager, so that we only have ONE invoice (and not have VM create and send its own invoice).
It seems a bit ridiculous that invoices are created automatically (in both VM and Inv Mgr), but then we have to go and sent the customer invoice manually.... not to mention having TWO invoices for the same order in different systems / components. This is manually intensive and also confusing.
2. Also, where do I find the "Fiscal Number" setting in Invoice Manager? I CAN see it in the MANUALLY created invoice, but I want to use it in the automatically created invoice when a customer places an order through VM
thanks,
Mike
I do like your extension, which I just purchased yesterday (the extended version of Invoice Mnager).... however....
I have read the forum (and the documentation), and it has answered my main and urgent question ------- there is no integration with VM, where VM creates an invoice, it emails this to the customer ----- it would seem that Invoice Manager cannot do this?
1. Currently a SECOND invoice is ALSO created in Invoice Manager....... I understand that this happens, but it is a real pain I T A.
Are there any plans to fully integrate with VM, ie, to have VM send the invoice created by Invoice Manager, so that we only have ONE invoice (and not have VM create and send its own invoice).
It seems a bit ridiculous that invoices are created automatically (in both VM and Inv Mgr), but then we have to go and sent the customer invoice manually.... not to mention having TWO invoices for the same order in different systems / components. This is manually intensive and also confusing.
2. Also, where do I find the "Fiscal Number" setting in Invoice Manager? I CAN see it in the MANUALLY created invoice, but I want to use it in the automatically created invoice when a customer places an order through VM
thanks,
Mike
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0hello Mike!
what you mean there's no integration with VM..?
the way it works is that when a new ORDER is created and confirmed, an invoice in Invoice Manager is created, containing the data.
1. yes, this is the invoice created in IM, it's a separate thing from whatever invoice VM may create also. But I don't understand why this is a pain... can't you just disable VM invoices and use only IM? the whole idea of IM is the ability to be able to handle invoices separately to virtuemart, in a different interface...
also the invoice in IM can be sent automatically if you want, that's no problem!
2. do you have a field in VM orders that you want to transfer to this Fiscal number field? -
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0Thanks for your reply.. it is greatly appreciated.....
This may be my ignorance of the component... I have just purcased it yesterday, so don't know it well enough yet.
I certainly wasn't meaning to be critical at all, I go like the look and feel and functionality of IM..... when I said "no integration with VM", I meant just that ONE area, where the invoice wasnt being sent automatically.
1. When I said it was a pain, I meant that shop owners would have to constantly monitor IM for new invoices created, then manually click to send these via email.... and if there are lots of invoices potentially created per day, this could be a real issue for them.
The VM method is much simpler, where it is sent automatically without shop owner intervention (again, I may be missing something here due to my ignorance).
You say the IM invoice can be sent automatically.... How can I do this???? Maybe a CRON running every few minutes??? but if so, which script do I run?
I can certainly disable invoicing in VM...... but I am not sure how to arrange for the automatic sending of IM invoices when a VM order is created...
Would greatly appreciate your guidance on this one, as it is a pretty big one for me.
2. The other one about Fiscal number is not so significant....... there is no particular field on the VM order, but there is a field in the VM Shop Vendor data (vm:vendorlegalinfo), which I would like on each invoice.
It is a legal requirement here that vendor business number be on every invoice..... but since this is a fixed number, I can always put it straight into the invoice as a text field, so there is really no issue here...
thanks, (and apologies again, if you thought I was being critical... I certainly didn't intend that )
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0hello Mike,
1. I'm just realising now that the automatic email function is not enabled on the VM plugin..! if you can just give me a couple days I'll publish a new version of the plugin that allows this automatically. otherwise, if you want, you can send me access to your website and I can enable it in there.
2. I wil check into that. I will see how can we do it to import a field that you can define yourself (not a "default" field from VM) -
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0Thanks for your reply......
I am not really concerned about the Fiscal number thing..... this is a fixed vendor identfier which I can easily put into the invoice as a text field (it is a legal requirement here that this be on all invoices).
It is the emailing of invoices which is my real issue....... I can certainly wait for a few days..... in the meantime, I will get to know the component beter.... I am liking it more and more (although I still do have a few other issues ---- I have created a separate post for these).
thanks yet again.
Mike -
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0Hi Mike,
apologies for the late answer...
I realised that besides of a small change on the plugin, also a (very small!) code tweak on the component itself is necessary in this case. Since we are preparing a new version of IM, this will be included in it.
But since this is not going to be released just yet (still a few weeks), I will gladly apply this tweak (it's only a line of code) in your installation right away, if you want.
If you want to provide me access to your site, I will do this in no-time. -
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