Ability to use supplier as customer

ERPNext Accounting
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Team,

We have business model where we will raise bills to our supplier and in some cases they raise bills to us.

I don’t want to create two entries one for customer and other for supplier as in that case reconciliation would be pain.

Is there a best practice for doing the same ?

Regards,
Vishwajeet Singh

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Hello,

Unfortunately for now you will have to create two entries. Perphaps you can add a custom field for Customer in Supplier Doctype in which you can fetch the respective customer code for the supplier.

Hope this helps.

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Thanks for your response but in this case how would reconciliation work.
Say I raise a vendor a bill of 10k and he raise me a bill 10k so ideally net outstanding should be zero but if we have two entries than it will not be the case.

Odoo does this really well, may be a food for thought for ERP team to introduce concept of party and allow a party to have customer as well supplier types.

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Thanks,
Would you mind creating a Github feature suggestion for this.

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Ok thanks I will. This is a critical business requirement for us, we have contemplated for quite a while between odoo and erpnext. Almost chose ERPNext but with this limitation not sure how do we proceed ahead. How difficult it would be implement this change?

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This is a good point to discuss.

We also have customers who are also our suppliers. I am having a hard time to prepare invoices. I hope we will have a fix soon.

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@ArundhatiS I have raised feature request, find below the link

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Thanks @vishwajeets

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Any one would like to contribute bellow is bounty link .