[Vtigercrm-developers] What is the purpose of a Vendor???

[Alan Lord]

I'm looking at moving my own business data from an old ERP system into 
vtiger (it's *really* old and unmaintainable any more). And my needs are 
pretty straightforward.

This old ERP system does have a proper accounting backend and as such 
you record both invoices that you send to your customers and also 
invoices that you receive from your own suppliers.

In this system, the equivalent of the Organisation record has two 
checkboxes:

* Customer
* Supplier

You can check both, one or none of these checkboxes which basically 
covers all the bases in terms of businesses you might have a 
relationship with.

Then Customer and Supplier Invoices are _essentially_ the same records 
but with an internal "flag" to indicate the direction of the money flow. 
It then makes it fairly easy to work out your balance sheet by comparing 
invoices in to invoices out.

Has anyone "fixed" vtiger to work more like this?

Thanks in advance

Al