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Appendix D — Simple vs Standard, module by module

Workflow depth (0.5) is a choice about selling and buying — made per company, for each side independently. This appendix is the whole matrix in one place.

Sales — the chain: order → waybill → invoice → receipt

  • Sales order — Standard: the chain's first stage, the promise. Simple: does not exist — its menus disappear and the document cannot be created.
  • Waybill — Standard: the delivery stage, against the order's open quantities. Simple: does not exist.
  • Sales invoice — both. In Simple it is raised directly and is the selling document; in Standard it follows the chain and inherits the order's prices and frozen exchange rate.
  • Credit note — both, raised against the invoice.
  • Receipt — both, allocated against invoices the same way at either depth.

Procurement — the chain: order → receipt → invoice → payment

  • Purchase order — Standard only, the mirror of the sales order.
  • Goods receipt — Standard only. With it go the two workflows that live on the receipt: GRNI clearing (the receipt records the liability; the invoice clears it) and landed cost (estimates are built on the receipt's grid).
  • Purchase invoice — both. In Simple it is the buying document itself, and posting it brings the stock in and records the payable in the same act.
  • Debit note — both, allocated against the purchase invoice.
  • Payment — both, exactly as in Standard.

Everywhere else, depth does not apply. The remaining modules run one workflow, the same at either setting:

  • Inventory — its three tiers (base, planning, advanced) are switches, not depths (§5.11).
  • Products, Accounts, People — single workflows; the books do not simplify.
  • Time Tracking — projects, entries, approvals and billing run one way, whichever depth the selling side uses.
  • Manufacturing — one workflow, independent of the depth set elsewhere (§10.2).
  • Aquaculture, Donations, Marketplace — single-workflow modules, each with its own module switch.
  • Documents and Your subscription — platform-wide, depth never reaches them.

Two closing rules from §0.5 belong with the matrix. Skipped documents are truly absent, not hidden — nobody can run two depths at once by accident. And while Simple can grow to Standard at any time, Standard to Simple is refused while open orders or draft delivery/receipt documents exist: the application names what must be finished or cleared first, so no promise in flight is ever stranded without its paperwork.

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