I’m looking into adding capitalization on items feature to my erpnext setup.
Basically, I want when I buy an item, for example 1000$. Later I service my item for example for 100$ and I paid it with payment entry. I want to capitalize that 100$ on my item value so in the inventory the value of the car will be 1100$ and I want it automatically.
What I’ve done is, I added a table to the item doctype that can store payment entries and fetch the total value of all services. I also edited the payment entry doctype to be able to use stock account instead of creditor, so when I buy a service it gets reflected on the stock account in the chart of accounts. I don’t want it to be an expense.
I’m stuck in the code, I want now whenever the item is edited to add a new payment, the valuation of that car gets updated to capitalize on them.
Scenario:
- bought a car for 1000$
- paid the auction fees for 100$
- add the acution fee payment entry to the car
- the car get re-evaluated to be 1100$
- cleaned the car in cleaning facility for 50$
- add the payment entry for the cleaning facility to the car
- the car gets re-evaluated to be worth 1150$ now
I’m looking into forking the project, create a branch, then add my features I don’t want to use client and server side scripts. I got lost in finding how the items are being valuated because I see sometimes it get fetched from the last purchase invoice, sometimes from the valuation int docfield in the item doctype. I’m kinda lost.