Invoice issues (IMPORTANT)

Hello,

At very first glance there are some very important points that you missed in the invoice:

1 - High - No Country field selection in the invoice layout (back-end configuration)
1.1- Country of seller should also be listed in the seller details in the invoice (front-end)

2 - High - No VAT ID field in the invoice layout (back-end configuration)
2.2 - VAT ID of seller should also be listed in the seller details in the invoice (front-end)

3 - High - An invoice (the document itself)should NOT be accessible if not paid ...

4 - Normal -Shipping address is confusing to user when the site is NOT proposing any shippable extras... There should be some configuration option to enable/disable this field globally in the back-end.

5 - High - Random number is NOT a permitted invoice number! Invoice numbers should increment as soon as it is paid (paid and not ordered - it is the payment date date that determines the invoice number increment...) Maybe keep the [[number]] and add [[invoice-number]] or [[incremental-number]]
Some countries have specific Invoice NUMBER FORMAT and NUMBER RESET FREQUENCY
E;g.: reset frequency options should be :
- None
- Every years
- Every months
- Every days

I already explained all these points a few times here in the forums but you do not seem to understand the importance of all these... very disappointed indeed....

As it is now the PayPlan is NOT compliant with EU regulations... so quite useless for us here unless you work on these above mentioned issues...


If this can help you... hikashop documentation about orders and invoices:


ORDER NUMBER FORMAT
This option enables you to set the format of order numbers. It is only available in commercial versions of HikaShop.

By default, the order number uses letters and numbers interleaved together, this is represented here with the tag {automatic_code}.

If you want to use the order number directly, you can use the tag {id}. In the tag id, you can specify the number of numbers with the size attribute. For example, {id size="5"} will result in 00123 for the order with the id 123.

You can also use the date tag in order to insert date information. For example, {date format="m/y"} will result in 02/11 for an order made in February 2011.

You can combine them to generate pretty advanced order numbers like the format RE-{id size="5"}/{date format="m/y"} used for German accounting which will result in RE-00123/02/11 for the order 123 made on February 2011.

If you need more formatting options for the date you can look at the PHP documentation: http://php.net/manual/fr/function.date.php

Note that the order number (and the order id) is generated when the order is created. So after you change the format here, only new orders will get their order number in the new format.

INVOICE NUMBER FORMAT
Same as the order but for the invoice (It is only available in commercial versions of HikaShop).

Note however that if you use the {id} tag, you will get the order invoice id, nor the order id. If you want to get the order id as your invoice number, you'll want to use the {order_id} tag instead.

Note that the invoice number (and the invoice id) is generated when the order status is changed to confirmed (based on the settings in the menu System>Order statuses). So after you change the format here, only new confirmed orders will get their invoice number in the new format.