Comedy of Errors and Miscommunication

Tuesday I called a client to get a purchase order number, and he said he'll call me back with it. He didn't call, so Wednesday I sent an email with a little reminder. He didn't respond, but I know that's because he hasn't figured out how to tell his spam filters not to block mail from certain people (myself included). Thursday, I wrote to a friend in the office to have him find out what's going on. Today the friend wrote back to say that the boss has "submitted your invoice for payment today."

That would be the invoice I haven't written yet, because I still don't have a purchase order number!

This is too comical to be annoying. ;-)

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RE: Comedy of Errors and Miscommunication

On 9/28/2003, Eric Hancock said:

>I still find that whole invoice / purchase order thing confusing.  I'm
>always forgetting which comes first, what one needs to create each,
>etc...

Purchase Order comes first. It means the company's accounting system has reserved money to pay the invoices submitted against that PO number. Or that's what it's supposed to mean... companies with no money will still issue PO numbers, and then when you submit an invoice with that PO number on it, they just take forever to pay it.

Usually when a PO number is issued, it's for a certain amount of money, and your invoices can't go over that amount if you actually want to be paid.

Seth

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