Layaways

Hello, there.

Here in my country, layaways have a very particular way to be treated because uf legal reasons: When you establish the layaway, an invoice (with a correct invoice numbering) has to be emitted, and inventory should be reserved. When making payments, receipts have to be printed, and when completely paid, another receipt. The actual sale has to be registered at the moment of the first payment, as taxes must be paid to the correspondent authority. If the layaway is cancelled, the item has to be un-reserved, and it is possible to sell it again.

Is there a way to obtain this functionality without altering RMS's programming i.e. not using the hooks and so?.

Thanks in advance.

Jorge,

Unfortunately not. The layaway functionality is designed to work in such a fashion that the sale does not actually take place until it is fully picked up. The only way to change that is to enter this as a product suggestion and hope that MS makes the change or creating a hook to control the layaway which you don't want to do. Everything else the layaway functionality can do.

Rob

"Jorge Benavides" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@microsoft.com...

Would work orders accomplish this. You can charge a deposit and it will accept more payments until the final sale is complete. I also will allocated the inventory from stock.

Elizabeth,

I believe the same problem still remains that Jorge needs to charge the customer for the full taxes on the initial payment.

I would say there's not a particularly good way to do this, but you could take a look at selling the item on account, then holding the merchandise until the account is paid off. This is really working around the system rather than getting it to work for you , but may be an option...

Good Luck!

Yes, Liz. I think Rob is right about this, and from a different standpoint, I believe the item is not going to be reserved in inventory. The real case is not the taxes, one simply configure in a way that the first deposit would be greater than the sales tax (that is, greater than 13%, in fact, retailers here use about 30%). I think my main issue is about the invoice number and the registration of the sale, really.

Thanks a lot.

"Rob" escribió:

Hello, Glenn

This sounds very good, but the item leaves inventory immediately, instead of being reserved. I have always thought that it is strange that you have to account for a sale, but the item remains in inventory!!!, it even sounds funny, but we can't go against the law, no matter how stupid it seems.

Well, thanks anyway!

"Glenn Adams [MVP - Retail Mgmt]" escribió: