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Jan 14, 2019 01:17 AM
Hi
I am trying to create a form in Airtable so it fills out the fields and creates an invoice.
I thought this would be really simple but I am stuck adding multiple products and multiple quantities.
Basically, I have a table called ‘Prices’ this has all the products, product codes, prices, colours and sizes, I then have another table called ‘Invoices’, in this table we have the fields called, product, qty, size and location.
From the '‘Invoices’ table, we lookup the product code from ‘Prices’ and display it in the product field, we then add our qty, size and location (This is taken from another table called ‘Location’ and it can be multiple selections).
Finally it calculate the cost of the cost of the product, add the cost of the locations and gives me a total figure. So far this appears to work and I don’t see it being an issue creating an invoice as it’s all on 1 row.
What I am can’t workout is… How do I add more products with multiple quantities (Some of the products may even be the same product but a different size)?
On an invoice, another product would be added to another line but I don’t appear to have that luxury within Airtable. Any ideas how to do this?
Jan 19, 2019 08:15 AM
I think you’ll need a junction table. I’d call it something like “Line Items”. Link both your “Prices” and “Invoices” table to it.
Here is an example: https://airtable.com/shr0onbFQBjqSTDOA
Jan 29, 2019 02:15 AM
Thank you, that worked.
Mar 19, 2019 02:55 PM
@AlliAlosa Can you explain more about how this is done? The example that you showed is no longer active.
Mar 19, 2019 03:33 PM
Oops! Sorry about that. Did some early spring cleaning and got rid of that example base. Here’s a new link: https://airtable.com/shrARpjHsxF9gAZf4
Happy to answer any questions if you have any!
Mar 19, 2019 03:47 PM
Thanks for the quick reply!
My main question is - If you are writing up your invoice on the “Invoices” tab, do you then have to jump over to the “Line Items” tab to input the individual items/qtys, then go back to your “Invoices” tab to finish out? Or is there a way to do all of your inputs from the “Invoices” tab?
Mar 19, 2019 03:58 PM
I personally would do the entries directly from the Line Items tab - I find it quicker/cleaner. However, you could do it from the Invoices tab by clicking the “+” symbol in the {Line Items} field, then “+ Add new record”. A pop-up will open with all the fields from the Line Items table (Product, Qty, etc).
Mar 19, 2019 04:02 PM
Ok, thanks for the help
Aug 03, 2020 09:39 AM
how do you build the automation via zapier so that any single customer that is buying 2 different items (with different quantity of course) will be assigned to a single invoice?
Sep 16, 2020 05:35 AM
Made my day to find this post! :partying_face: