Exporting orders
Running out of options here. I have a business-critical issue relating to Item Sale exports as outlined in case 01055631.
I've requested escalation of the resolution of this issue via the follo...
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Hi CloverQ I appreciate your response, but there isn't much help to be had in what you have said.
We are working on the Desktop (not Cloud) version of the product, as the online version doesn't support multi-currency and does not even seem to have the concept of an Order, so add-ons are not of much use.
The report you mentioned only exports a single summary line per order, whereas the Export Item Sales exports all line items of the order, which is the data we need. Other reports that do export line item data for orders don't do it in a consistent single record format, so again of no use.
It is simply not acceptable that basic and documented functionality of the product can have known bugs in it for a period of 2 years, and simply be ignored and remain unfixed.
This bug will eventually swamp our downstream software with extraneous data, and if we cannot resolve the issue we will have no choice but to seek an alternative solution for our accounting needs.
CloverQ here's another post dated May 2020 reporting the same issue. Steven_M states in response to this post that it was already a known issue then. That makes it OVER 2 years ago.
PJ1973 and iWorld1 did you ever find a suitable workaround to this problem?
https://community.myob.com/t5/AccountRight-Sales-and-purchases/exporting-sales-orders/m-p/650044
Hi tbaalham
I don't mean to alarm you, however there are literally over 100 known bugs what have been around, some for over 11 years. MYOB has shown complete disinterest in fixing bugs unless they affect 100% of users. They comfort themselves by saying 'this affects a small number of users', they comfort users by saying ' we have referred this to our developers but can't give you a time frame for a fix'.
Regards
Gavin
Hi gavin12345 , thanks for your response.
I've spent some time going through community posts for AR, and there definitely seems to be a low level of customer care overall. Very disappointing to me, as I've been an MYOB customer for over 10 years, using the much more rock-solid AccountEdge on mac, sadly now EOL.
As I've mentioned, this bug is a deal breaker for our use of MYOB, and if they won't fix what should be STANDARD functionality, or provide a feasible workaround, I am left with no choice but to migrate to a different accounting solution.
So frustrating as I only migrated to AR a few weeks ago...
So CloverQ now it's over to you. Are you going to escalate this bug in STANDARD and DOCUMENTED functionality for resolution in a timely manner, or are you going to leave yet another paying customer high and dry?
Hmmm... no response from the MYOB folks...
I've done some more digging, and assuming the Desktop client is using the MYOB Business API to communicate with my online file, it would appear that the actual Sale/Order/Item endpoint is spewing out the same incorrect data.
Using OdataLink to pull the data directly from the online file, I am seeing extraneous information being included in the resultant data. New Orders are going in, but old Orders that have been converted to Invoices are still present.
So CloverQ your suggestion of looking for an Add-On wouldn't work as the same problem is present directly from the API. Perhaps this is why Orders are surprisingly absent from the online version of AR??
