SCENARIO: A customer of ours sent us a PO for 910 parts and we shipped
them 909 parts.
QUESTION: Can we invoice the customer for 909 parts or must we wait
until after we've shipped the final part and bill ONLY for the full
amount on their purchase order?

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Request for Question Clarification by legolas-ga on 16 Jan 2005 08:07 PST

I'd be happy to answer this for you in vivid detail, but,
unfortunately the amount you are offering is not quite in line with
the Google Pricing Guidelines for the amount of work you'd like
performed--and the knowledge required to answer the question (UCC and
Contract Law). If you would like to raise the value of the question to
something more appropriate (with the realization that the more money
you offer, the more detailed the answer will be), I can provide you
with the information you need.

In the alternative, if you would rather just have a fast answer with
no real detailed explanation, I'd be happy to provide that to you for
the price listed currently.

Legolas-ga

Does your contract and/or purchase order mention terms for partial
shipment and/or partial billing?  How long will it take before the
last item is shipped?  Yes, you can bill for the partial shipment, but
why make this extra step if you could just wait to furnish one
billing?  If you have any legal

4KEITH (I'm NOT a GOOGLE Researcher)

I would think your bookkeeping would demand an invoice for parts
shipped and another invoice for the item that is to be sent later.  It
also reminds the customer to pay for items received -which payment is
due upon receipt of the items rather than waiting to pay upon receipt
of last item.  It is quite possible that your customer could have
received those 900 odd items and used or sold them before you've even
billed them. Always invoice the items sent- what if he called and said
cancel that last item, I found one in the warehouse?