We got a report from Alan on the delayed inventory update stuff. You can now save your work, delete/remove some records, reset things, and then finally process the saved pieces. We are really close to getting that launched and online to let people start playing with it. Good stuff.

Eric jumped on and had a few questions. After that, Wayne jumped on and we went over some server things. Wayne is in the middle of a task to move about 70ish corporations from an older data 1 server up to a newer data 11 server. He is just doing prep work and practice runs right now, but building up for the actual migration process. He had some questions and a lot of them are dealing with different files on different servers. We know that we need it (custom code options), but it does make some of the standardization process more difficult. Anyways, we chatted about a number of options and even pitched a couple ideas back and forth about using includes, config files, and database storage of either values or objects (JSON stuff). Lots of good talks and discussions.

Eric came back on and had some questions on how to deal with optional database joins and displaying conditional output. Where this comes from is we allow the sub special account tracking transactions to be either tied to a customer, an invoice, a payee/user, or just generically tied to text entry (not a real database item). This allows our gift cards, loyalty points, and other sub special account tracking accounts more flexibility. I showed him some pages where we already do similar type logic (media/content and flex grid).

In between times, I was working on helping the customer tax category to stick. This is for customers that are say set to a tax category of wholesale, resale, government, etc. They are not taxed, but often a retail item will be setup as normal taxable or with tax included. My current mini project is trying allow the non taxed customers to get the correct auto tax categories as they go through checkout and cart creation process.