Reversing the same transaction more than once
Can anyone come up with a business reason where you would want to reverse the same transaction (invoice, payment etc), more than once?
I think its more likely to lead to errors, so I'm thinking of restricting it for 1.8 as part of the Transaction reversal suppression project. Here, the transaction will have a relationship to its reversal, so duplicate reversals can be prevented.
Thanks,
-Tim
Re: Reversing the same transaction more than once
Allowing it would make tracking reversal really hard for an accountant etc. I think restriction would be appropriate.
I can think of no reason why I would reverse the same transaction id twice.
Ben
Re: Reversing the same transaction more than once
Can we clarify things. Assume that we have invoice A. If we reverse this we generate a credit , say AR.
Tim A - do you mean that reversing Invoice A is then not possible (because it has already been reversed), or that the credit note AR cannot be reversed.
I would agree that blocking a second reversal of a transaction that has previously been reversed is sensible.
However, reversing a transaction that itself was generated as the result of a reversal, should be allowed. Hence, to continue with the above senario, one should be able to reverse the credit note AR, to generate a new invoice ARR. And the information held will enable us to follow the chain back to the original transaction.
Regards, Tim G
Re: Reversing the same transaction more than once
It would block a second reversal of invoice A.