{"id":41,"date":"2008-03-24T18:11:40","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T23:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericgharrison.wordpress.com\/2008\/03\/24\/worlds-longest-po-number"},"modified":"2008-03-24T18:11:40","modified_gmt":"2008-03-24T23:11:40","slug":"worlds-longest-po-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Worlds Longest PO Number"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"msgcns!E4092A968B7C1A54!318\" class=\"bvMsg\">\n<p>I&#8217;m just sitting here doing some bookkeeping and billing a customer.\u00a0 In order to get paid by this customer, we *must* include their full PO number on the invoice.<\/p>\n<p>The PO number is, get this, TWENTY SIX digits long!\u00a0 Even better, there are eleven zero&#8217;s in a row between what might be considered a vendor identifier and PO method, and what looks to be the actual PO number of another three digits.\u00a0 So it appears that they feel they felt they needed 14 digits for the total PO number over time.<\/p>\n<p>Um, folks, no one, and I mean <strong>no one<\/strong> in the history of the planet is going to need a PO number that goes into the trillions.<\/p>\n<p>But hey, at least I found something that QuickBooks can&#8217;t handle out of the box.\u00a0 Maybe I should submit a bug report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m just sitting here doing some bookkeeping and billing a customer.\u00a0 In order to get paid by this customer, we *must* include their full PO number on the invoice. The PO number is, get this, TWENTY SIX digits long!\u00a0 Even better, there are eleven zero&#8217;s in a row between what might be considered a vendor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}