July 18th, 2011

In this issue we’ll discuss Invoice statuses and the Invoice processing workflow supported in the Apache Ofbiz Accounting application. Like other business documents/objects in Ofbiz, Invoices are an important part of the broader Ofbiz system, and changes to its status have direct impact on General Ledger (GL), billing accounts, payments and other accounting functions. Of all statuses, the ‘Ready’ and ‘Paid’ status are unique in that they trigger GL…Read more »
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June 28th, 2011
An invoice is a commercial document issued by seller to buyer that enlists the summary of the transaction i.e. quantity, unit price, total of complete purchase, item descriptions, settlement terms, dates, etc. This Ofbiz component supports various Invoice(s) for Accounts payable and Accounts receivable. Let’s find out what are those invoice(s) types are.
Let’s start with AR component. AR supports Sales Invoice(s), Purchase return Invoice(s) and Interest Invoices(s).

1) Sales Invoice(s): The Sales Invoice is…Read more »
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May 23rd, 2011
There are a number of reasons that a product or product variant (size, color, etc) may need to be removed from the front end of the site, but we don’t want to remove the product from the system entirely. This could range from availability, inventory, or seasonal nature of products, or even more specific reasons to your business. Luckily, OfBiz makes this process very simple, and allows us to set very specific introduction and discontinuation dated on products, right…Read more »
Tags: Chris Gaughan, OFBiz Catalog Manger, OFBiz Tutorial, OFBiz Tutorials
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May 16th, 2011
In this OFBiz tutorial we will be focusing on the Price Rules tab. The Price Rules tab in the catalog manager allows one to create very complex pricing structures based on basic price data and variables such as the customer, product, or quantity involved. For example, it would be possible to specify quantity discounts, special discounts for a particular group of products, for a particular group of customers, or pricing based on average cost…Read more »
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May 9th, 2011
This OFBiz tutorial is to show you how to manage your different security groups, since just about every business using the OfBiz platform will have a need to set up different security groups within the system. This allows users to be assigned to specific security groups which can only access the areas of the back-end that are pertinent to their jobs.
To create or edit security groups, the user must be an administrator within the system.
Tags: Chris Gaughan, OFBiz Security Groups, OFBiz Tutorial, OFBiz Tutorials
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