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Old 5th March 2010, 06:22 PM
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3 Years ago I manually entered (rather than conversion) 315 tenants into my software from a program that I had used for many years.

I have an option of annual or semi annual prepay with a discount and receive a bill.

There have been several tenants that for whatever undiscovered reason the invoicing just doesn't work.

This particular tenant is an annual pay-- so the problem only comes up 1 time a year. I experiment and enter a calendar reminder to check on it the next year. After 3 years I have not made any progress.

This Annual pay invoice should have generated 2/5 for 12 months rent 3/1/10 to 2/28/11. It generated an invoice but only has March rent. I have checked and unchecked and rechecked all ledger settings. Send Invoice, no invoice fee, annual pay. And then hope the next year it works correctly.

I will walk you through what I am attempting to do: manually creating the charges for each month. And it takes 7 clicks per month to do it. Ooooops-- accidentally created Jan 2011 rent twice. Only way to delete it was to go to Edit Ledger screen.

Back in Invoicing mode--- now have to click 12 times to add selected charges to invoice. Whew-- finally can print invoice. Now find out the created invoices are not in date order. Units open charges list starts with rent 1/1/2011, 2/1/2011, then 3/1/2010 and so on.

Now to wait until next year and see how it works. Any wonder I opted to ignore my reminder note from last year and now that it is 3/5 am dealing with this issue for rent that was due 3/1 and an invoice that I should have mailed 2/5. Ugggghhh!
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Old 5th March 2010, 06:26 PM
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What software are you using?
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Old 6th March 2010, 02:10 PM
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That is what I was wondering too. What software???
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Old 7th March 2010, 07:28 PM
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I can do annual billiang as well, for a prepay 11+1 deal, but the invoice won't be correct unless the discount has already been entered...

Counter-productive.
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Old 19th March 2010, 12:40 PM
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If you are talking about RentPlus, it will invoice for any noumber of months but it will not apply a discount automatically. I think that's why the provide a link to export printouts to Word. So you can manually edit in the things that the program doesn't.

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