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NAME

FS::cust_bill_pkg - Object methods for cust_bill_pkg records

SYNOPSIS

 use FS::cust_bill_pkg;

 $record = new FS::cust_bill_pkg \%hash;
 $record = new FS::cust_bill_pkg { 'column' => 'value' };

 $error = $record->insert;

 $error = $new_record->replace($old_record);

 $error = $record->delete;

 $error = $record->check;

DESCRIPTION

An FS::cust_bill_pkg object represents an invoice line item. FS::cust_bill_pkg inherits from FS::Record. The following fields are currently supported:

billpkgnum - primary key; invnum - invoice (see FS::cust_bill); pkgnum - package (see FS::cust_pkg) or 0 for the special virtual sales tax package, or -1 for the virtual line item (itemdesc is used for the line); setup - setup fee; recur - recurring fee; sdate - starting date of recurring fee; edate - ending date of recurring fee; itemdesc - Line item description (currentlty used only when pkgnum is 0 or -1)

sdate and edate are specified as UNIX timestamps; see "time" in perlfunc. Also see Time::Local and Date::Parse for conversion functions.

METHODS

new HASHREF

Creates a new line item. To add the line item to the database, see "insert". Line items are normally created by calling the bill method of a customer object (see FS::cust_main).

insert

Adds this line item to the database. If there is an error, returns the error, otherwise returns false.

delete

Currently unimplemented. I don't remove line items because there would then be no record the items ever existed (which is bad, no?)

replace OLD_RECORD

Currently unimplemented. This would be even more of an accounting nightmare than deleteing the items. Just don't do it.

check

Checks all fields to make sure this is a valid line item. If there is an error, returns the error, otherwise returns false. Called by the insert method.

cust_pkg

Returns the package (see FS::cust_pkg) for this invoice line item.

cust_bill

Returns the invoice (see FS::cust_bill) for this invoice line item.

details

Returns an array of detail information for the invoice line item.

desc

Returns a description for this line item. For typical line items, this is the pkg field of the corresponding FS::part_pkg object (see FS::part_pkg). For one-shot line items and named taxes, it is the itemdesc field of this line item, and for generic taxes, simply returns "Tax".

owed_setup

Returns the amount owed (still outstanding) on this line item's setup fee, which is the amount of the line item minus all payment applications (see FS::cust_bill_pay_pkg and credit applications (see FS::cust_credit_bill_pkg).

owed_recur

Returns the amount owed (still outstanding) on this line item's recurring fee, which is the amount of the line item minus all payment applications (see FS::cust_bill_pay_pkg and credit applications (see FS::cust_credit_bill_pkg).

BUGS

setup and recur shouldn't be separate fields. There should be one "amount" field and a flag to tell you if it is a setup/one-time fee or a recurring fee.

A line item with both should really be two separate records (preserving sdate and edate for setup fees for recurring packages - that information may be valuable later). Invoice generation (cust_main::bill), invoice printing (cust_bill), tax reports (report_tax.cgi) and line item reports (cust_bill_pkg.cgi) would need to be updated.

owed_setup and owed_recur could then be repaced by just owed, and cust_bill::open_cust_bill_pkg and cust_bill_ApplicationCommon::apply_to_lineitems could be simplified.

SEE ALSO

FS::Record, FS::cust_bill, FS::cust_pkg, FS::cust_main, schema.html from the base documentation.