I want to supress the leading zeros so my invoice numbers are significantly shorter - but another thread on this site revealed that they cannot be deleted - why not???
My suppliers and customers punch the entire number into their systems and they do not fit their field and create confusing references on their documentation....help!
Regards
Joe Trimboli
"Leading Zeros in Invoice and Purchase Order and any other form generating application"
Hi there Kelly81 and DougfromBGN,
We do understand that the leading zeros would be an annoyance to a business as it may be seen as unaesthetically pleasing. We do agree that having the option to get rid of these would benefit a lot of our clients.
Furthermore, we also do agree that the option to add additional characters (e.g. a leading letter) would be beneficial to introduce into the software as well. I have shared your feedback with the rest of the team.
David_Cree, thank you for the workaround - as this would be a viable option for some clients, we do appreciate you taking the time to share it.
Anyone else who would like to see this idea implemented, please do vote by clicking on the '+ VOTE' option next to the subject heading.
Cheers,
Tallie
The issue is not just getting rid of leading zeros. By doing so, additional characters can be used, as required by some large customers.
For example, one well-known national retailer insists on all Invoices starting with a particular letter. Their other divisions use different letters. If not, payments run late, and extra time is used chasing up these matters with the customer.
The system we moved from offerred this feature when we first started with it in 1984.
Doug
Hello David_Cree,
That may be an workaround however not a very practicle one, business document numbers don't stay static and therefore someone would have to "watch" to see when they were going to roll into the next thousand or hundred.
I am just trying to be constructive here
Thanks
Hello Carlisa,
Thanks for the reply.
The issue of ugly invoices is easily solved by customising the form so that the width of the invoice # field does not show the leading zeros.
Cheers
David
Hello David_Cree
The issue is how UGLY and out of place the leading zeros is on all printed documentation including invoices that go to customers...
You've probably just got used to it.
Kind Regards,
Carlisa.
Hello,
I do not see what the issue is with leading zeros as they can simply be ignored and myob knows what you mean.
David
No other accounting system has leading zero's showing. MYOB are miles behind the times here.
Wow 3 years on and we're still voting on this issue - clearly MYOB is listening....
Agreed and voted.
