@kittiu Actually we are continuing our work in ERNext France with the lastest published feature (on Github version-15 (on FrappeCloud the process to push a new version is not automated for now) to manage “Eco Tax” probably only applicable in french market (may be european).
The Deposit Invoice is a really huge topic, we are working to relate it with Payment Terms Template from Quotation to Sales Invoice.
In France, the total without tax (let’s call it Total HT) of Deposit Invoice should not be include in the accountable turnover (let’s call it CA) of the company in a Fiscal Year (according invoice validation date), but the VAT reporting (monthly/per 3 month or Fiscal Yearly, depending of company choice) must include it.
The Total HT will be part of CA when the final invoice will be validated only.
This can be manage by affecting dedicated account code to the item use in Deposit Invoice.
I use “turnover”,“total without tax” words because it’s the most acceptable translation, but it’s not always the same definition regarding local accounting law specificiation.
Actually on a Quotation when you add Payment Terms Template the payment date is be calculated on “Invoice date”… Heuuu, I’m on Quotation why Payment Terms (from Payment Term Template) should bother me with invoice date… I don’t know.
And worst when you create a Sales Orders from a validated Quotation the Payments Terms date are copied witch result to error message on validation of Sales Oorder (somthing like “date of payment could not be before date of document”…), this make no sense to final users. We are working on it (Payment Terms before Invoice)
Our final goal will be, by an exemple
On Customer Doctype
- Existing field
- Default Payment term template
- Template : “30 days”
- Payment terms : 30 days (calculated base of Date of Invoice)
- New field
- Default Payment term before Sales Invoice
- Template: "30% validation/70% shipping"
- Payment terms : "30% validation" (Rule: will be calculated base of Date of **Document** (Quotation or Sales Order)))
- Payment terms : "70% shipping" (Rule: calculated base of Date of **Shipping** (for Sales Order)))
When create Sales Order from Quotation the dates of Payment Terms will be recalculated by the rules define “30% validation/70% shipping”
In this Sales Ooder we have 100€ of VAT 10% and 50€ of VAT 20%
In Validated Sales Oorder, add an action in the button “Create Deposit Invoice”
=> popup auto fill with 30% (as of 1st Payment Terms)
=> Create Sales invoice (Mark/Check as Deposit with auto pre-select Series…)
- 1 item/line and in the description “Deposit Invoice of X % for Quotation/Sales Order name”
- Taxes
- VTA 10%, amount : 30€ (30% of 100€ of VAT 10%)
- VTA 20%, amount : 15€ (30% of 50€ of VAT 20%)
On “Final” Sales Invoice created from Sales Order, Default Payment Term template is 30 days (calculated base of Date of Invoice) that’s OK
Here allow to get Previous Payment but this will
- add negative line that will reduce the Total HT amount base on previous Deposit invoice payed related (not an minus on payment due, but an Total HT deducted because the VAT calculation is base on HT and we already collected the VAT on the Deposit Invoice)
Actually the standard process deduct the amount due, that not what we want in france.
Well that the goal, if you want to provide contribut feel free.
