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The trading
plugin¶
The lino_xl.lib.trading
plugin adds functionality for managing the sale,
purchase or other kind of trading operations with
products, services or other named things.
This plugin requires the products contacts and the accounting plugin. It is required by more specialized plugins like invoicing and storage.
Table of contents:
Concepts¶
- trade voucher¶
A numbered voucher that has a partner as recipient and one or several lines (“items”), each of which can refer to a product.
For example, product invoices and service reports are trade vouchers.
- product invoice¶
An legal document that describes that something (a series of invoice items) has been sold to a given customer or purchased from a given provider. The business partner can be either a private person or an organization.
- trading operation¶
A business operation where a number of named things are being exchanged between two business partners.
- customer¶
The business partner of a sales trading operation.
- provider¶
The business partner of a purchase trading operation.