Comments on: Moving to 5-digit receipt numbers

By: Dan Cooperstock

Dan Cooperstock — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 16:18:01 +0000

At this point, it seems like everyone is OK with this change to 5 digit receipt numbers, with no option being provided to keep using 4 digits instead.

So, probably no more comments are needed, unless you disagree with this conclusion.

Thanks, everyone, for your help with this!

By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:46:46 +0000

Five digits would be fine with us.

By: David Robertson

David Robertson — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:08:55 +0000

Just do it..

By: Jill Hood

Jill Hood — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 02:18:28 +0000

If you have clients who require or will require this option in the near future, then go ahead and add the extra 0.

By: Gary

Gary — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:02:35 +0000

It won’t make any difference to recipients and most will probably not notice anyway. If you have clients who can use it, it makes sense to just change everyone.

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:48:46 +0000

We’re in the 21st century now so let’s move along with the extra 0. Before long, everyone will forget that we used to print the receipt number with only 4 digits.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:41:13 +0000

I think just going to 5 digits covers all situations. We would not need this until sometime in 2012.

By: Sandra

Sandra — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:24:47 +0000

I see no problem with moving to 5 digit number Dan. It makes no difference to Revenue Canada and I can’t see any issue with us.

By: Dan Cooperstock

Dan Cooperstock — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:39:46 +0000

One of my advisors just sent the following reaction by email. I’m posting it so we can all see, to help see whether a consensus is developing:

“I would suggest just moving to 5 digit number. The extra digit I do not think would make much difference other than allowing for the creating a larger number of receipts.”

By: Dan Cooperstock

Dan Cooperstock — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:47:13 +0000

I take your point, Peter. But I have ocassionally had users say that they might need over 9,999 receipts per year, but still thought my program would work for them.

Given this, and the fact that it’s a very easy programming change, it seems there’s no reason not to make the change. But that still leaves open the question of whether I need to give existing users an option to stick with the 4-digits.

One thing I didn’t mention in the original post is that since I hate adding complications to the program, I might be a bit less likely to make this change if people do feel that I’d need to offer an option for 4 or 5 digits, since that would just be another potentially confusing configuration option.