153: Auto dispatching when invoicing
Dave Nichols, 01/10/2004

A new facility will be avialable in build 21.2.6 that allows the raising and approving of a sales invoice to automatically raise and approve the corresponding dispatch note. No release date has been set for this build yet.

This facility is intended to be useful when you always invoice for what you dispatch on a one-to-one basis and invoice immediately on dispatch. The two procedures become one.

The facility is controlled by a new default - Allow Auto Dispatch - in the SD module. The factory setting is NO, which means dispatching behaviour is as now. Setting the default to YES will turn the facility on.

When the facility is turned on, the system will raise a dispatch note for whatever is ready to be dispatched and an invoice for the same amount. If you wish to ship, or invoice, a different amount both the invoice and the dispatch note must be adjusted. The documents are not directly linked in this way. The new facility merely raises and approves two documents at once. Its just a short-cut to you doing it manually.

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