Generating a compilation of one invoice per producer

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Hi @oeoeaio!

Ok so here is the différence between the two status (intermediate vs business provider)

  • In the case of an intermediate, the producer in France need to have specific agreements and respect specific norms to be able to sell its products to a reseller (ex: an online shop). Often very small producer don’t have those agreements (and they are not obliged to, but then they can’t sell to resellers…). But they can sell directly to the end user.
  • The status of the intermediate/reseller is subject to other norms, about the accessibility of the selling point for example, the legal obligations for the space used for the delivery (hygiene, handicaped friendly, etc.)
  • Also in terme of insurance, if you are an intermediate, you are legally responsible of something bad happen with a product. If you are a business provider, the producer remains responsible for the product and what happens with it (linked to point 1 I guess). In this model, usually the producer is supposed to come on the delivery day and physically sells himself the products to the end-users (TFA model, I guess that’s why the producers have to come to the delivery also…)
  • You cannot be a non-profit and a reseller in France, so if you want to do a volunteer based work, and take a margin for a cause for example, you cannot be a reseller, or you will reconsidered as a commercial entity.
  • In all the CSA models in France, it’s impossible to buy to the CSA, you always pay directly the producer, or it’s considered as “unfair competition” for other regular stores… So in a CSA, you pay on one side your membership to the CSA, and on the other side you pay directly each producer for the products…

That’s why we need to be able to have one invoice per producer :wink:
@NickWeir don’t you have this problem in UK? In France we got this feedback from CSAs and current hub managers in TFA.

I know @nickwhite is busy with the backoffice translation at the moment, and I don’t know if that’s something you feel familiar with @nickwhite. Let us know @oeoeaio if you have some ideas on the workload that represents … Of course we will need to prioritize that compared with all the other stuff :wink:
And that needs also to go along with a e-wallet payment solution so that the money doesn’t transit through the hub as well (we are working on that as well)

Thanks for your thoughts!