"To be invoiced" should be reworded

[Numérigraphe]

Our experience is that many users don't get the meaning of a stock move being "To be invoiced".
They often believe that it means the move should be invoiced ASAP, even when it's in draft state.
So I suggest we rename it to "Not yet invoiced".
Lionel Sausin.

[Amit Parik (amit-parik)]

Hello,

I have checked your bug report, but this is your "Opinion".

Currently it's "To be invoiced" means that "it will able to create a invoice" so that's good.
But you suggested that "Not yet invoiced" means that "Still invoice not created".

So as per my "Opinion", To be invoiced word is proper no need to change that because it is like a functional word.

That's why I am setting this as an "Opinion" so we can get more suggestion on this.

Thanks and more suggestions are welcomed!

[Numérigraphe (numerigraphe)]

Dear Amit,
I agree that a better wording may still be found and I have subscribed the l10n experts to this bug.

Dear experts,
Can you please share your views?

Lionel.

[Bogdan Stanciu (bstanciu)]

On 17. 11. 11 11:21, Launchpad Bug Tracker wrote:
> You have been subscribed to a public bug by Numérigraphe (numerigraphe):
>
> Our experience is that many users don't get the meaning of a stock move being "To be invoiced".
> They often believe that it means the move should be invoiced ASAP, even when it's in draft state.
> So I suggest we rename it to "Not yet invoiced".
> Lionel Sausin.
>
> ** Affects: openobject-addons
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
Lionel,

I have the feeling that the two variants are not *that* different, maybe
a short line in the manual or training materials would do much more...

However, if let's say it is *always* forbidden to invoice drafted stock
moves, then the "urge" to invoice them will be much more efficiently
stopped by hiding the button/blocking the possibility to invoice
altogether.

regards,
Bogdan

[Numérigraphe (numerigraphe)]

Dear Bogdan,
Thanks for your comments.

Our biggest problem with this wording is when it's used in the list views - for example in the list of packings in the sale order form. There is no button that we can mask there, and the wording makes the lists deceiving.

In our use case, sales persons record sales and invoice from the shippings done, but they don't know/care how shippings work.
All they have is the list of pickings in the sale order form that reads "to be invoiced" even when it's not to be invoiced now, and it doesn't make sense to them.

So I think all non-logistics person will find it's nonsense, and I don't think a footnote in the documentation will help end users.
Lionel.

[Olivier Dony (Odoo) (odo-openerp)]

After reviewing the merge proposal, I'd like to close this bug as Won't Fix to indicate that we consider this as a customization that could be done for certain installations, but should not be part of the core.

See the review on the merge proposal for more details: https://code.launchpad.net/~numerigraphe/openobject-addons/trunk-stock-not-yet-invoiced/+merge/82535