Adding discounts to an invoice as a line of distribution

[Ebo]

Our CEO insists that discounts are displayed on an invoice as lines of distribution, which makes a lot of sense IMHO.

So an invoice is supposed to look like this:

Item 1 $50
Item 2 $25
Discount 10% -$7.5
--------------------------
Subtotal $67.5

As far as I can see, Peachtree offers absolutely no way to do this (other than manually calculating the discount amount and adding it to the invoice, which is out of the question).

Quickbooks offered a workaround - you could first add a "subtotal" item then add an discount on that subtotal. Peachtree however does neither support subtotal nor discount items.

I am currently writing an external tool which more or less hacks into the Peachtree process and enters the discount item by emulating keystrokes - but there has got to be a more elegant way to solve this problem.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[Deborah Bean]

I have only seen one solution, but it was for a company that did not charge sales tax separately for their services. We used the sales tax field for an applied discount. The discount percentage was determined by the Sales Tax Code.

This is obviously not a solution for any company that charges sales tax separately. Have your thought of leaving the Windows Calculator on the Taskbar and just calculate it that way?

[Robert Walraven]

Although you can't automatically calculate and display on a separate line the discount for an order within Peachtree, this could certainly be done externally. You could add a button on the Sales/Invoice form in PawCom that, when clicked would perform whatever operation you wanted on the invoice before sending it to Peachtree.

Bob Walraven
Architect of PawCom