Add enhancement to the Invoice Date Due calculation so that a due date calculated based on the Invoice Due-In Days setting in Preferences does not fall on a non-business day (weekend or holiday) but on the next regular business day after the non-business day.
An example of an implementation of the desired calculation logic can be found in the Windows program WinDate Calculator found at www.windatecalc.com
Thanks for the request. Would you also want this to ignore all weekend dates, similar to the Gantt chart date functionality? Or just to ensure that it's due on the nearest business day to the original date?
Ideally, a user could preset a standard workweek (S M T W T F or S) in Preferences. While most users probably have a 5 day work week with a Saturday & Sunday weekend, others may prefer a longer or shorter one. For purposes of the calculation, all days, including weekends (and holidays) are "countable" for the Invoice Due-In Days number, but if the calculated date would fall on a non-work day, then the date generated would be pushed to the next working day following the calculated date. (e.g., if the calculated due date falls on a Saturday or Sunday, then the date actually generated would fall on the Monday following.)
Referring to the functionality in the suggested example software WinDate Calculator: This program gives the further option of allowing the user to pre-program certain dates as holidays. If this functionality were implemented in Studiometry, then the calculation would jump over the specified holidays as well, placing the Due Date on the next work day after the holiday. For the upcoming US federal holiday Birthday of Martin Luther King (3rd Monday in January) the due date would be pushed to Tuesday.
The philosophy behind this request is that an invoice should not be generated with a due date on which your business is not open to accept a payment, and gives the benefit to the client of having at least the Invoice Due-In Days period to pay his bill.
I've had complaints when the auto-generated due date on my invoice falls on a non business day when payment can't be completed. (I assess penalties for late payments.)
Any chance of this request being implemented?
Since other changes for Invoice Due Date are in-process, can we focus attention on a default Due Date which doesn't fall on date when the business is not open?