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The trading plugin

The lino_xl.lib.trading plugin adds functionality for managing sale, purchase or other kind of trading activity with named things (e.g. “products”, “services”).

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Concepts

trade voucher

A numbered voucher that has a partner as recipient and one or several “rows” (“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.

customer

The business partner of a sales trading transaction.

provider

The business partner of a purchase trading transaction.

Dependency

This plugin requires the products contacts and the accounting plugin.