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by bombcar 1500 days ago
And even worse - your biggest customers won't even smell your invoice unless you enter it line by line into some ancient SAP system developed 20 years ago, where everything cloud related is classified as telephony except storage space which must be classified as filing cabinets (movable) or your invoice will be (very slowly) rejected.

And if it is rejected you have to enter it all again by hand; editing isn't a feature.

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I said, over and over again, that moving away from goats and salt as currency was a mistake, but nobody listened to me.
But the different conversion rates for each kingdom/duchy/province/parish were a nightmare even then.
I don't get what you're talking about. Our biggest customer reluctantly agreed to accept preliminary invoices for acceptance over fax instead of signed-for mail, provided that we also ship a paper version with a red stamp promptly.
Wow, haven’t lived this pain fortunately… but totally understand how hard it is to try building a « modern pricing stack » but being forced to create invoices in old softwares like SAP…