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Renate Brokelmann
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December 22, 2015 at 4:05 pm
Hi,
in Germany we need to have sequential invoice numbers, preferably starting at 1 for each year, e.g. 2015-1 …. 2016-1. Is this option available for EE4 or is this feature planned anytime soon?
Best regards
Renate
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Josh
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December 23, 2015 at 7:53 am
Hi Renate,
We’ve looked into adding this and what we found is there’s a limitation caused in part from the way registration codes and transaction IDs are created before a registration is completed. This ends up causing gaps between the sequential invoice numbers.
What should help make sequential numbering possible is some under the hood work being done for a Event Espresso 4.9 release. The work that’s going into 4.9 is a new message queue feature. This involves putting the messages in to a queue and delivered later, which could allow for keeping track and adding a sequential number for the invoices.
So the tldr; summary is it’s planned, but the work is on hold until 4.9 is ready.
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Renate Brokelmann
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January 4, 2016 at 3:02 pm
Is there no other way to solve this?
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Josh
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January 4, 2016 at 4:04 pm
Another way to build an invoice module that works independently of the existing invoice message type that keeps track of each invoice to ensure they’re sequential.
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Renate Brokelmann
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January 4, 2016 at 4:28 pm
Thanks, that’s what I thought/feared. At the moment I don’t see a need for an extra module, I solved the problem by assigning a variable in the PDF template (invoice / receipt) which is calculated by subtracting the last transaction id from 2015 from the current one. We still work with version 4.4.10.p.
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