Comment 7 for bug 551543

Hallo,

I confirm, there are many uses for proforma invoices. Normally, it's always to give an indication of value of the goods, but there is no mandatory relation with the sales price ! I confirm the miss-using explained by Jan Verlaan (Veritos) #4 as "invoice" or "quotation" for pre-payment in many situation (web sales is an example).

From my point of view & experience, in EEC a pro forma should never post in the accounting and of course if no posting its not possible to have an accounting document number (but well a number range out of the accounting number ranges. For the other countries a did implementation (China, Japan, US, ...) I never met another use.

Kind regards
Alain