This answers the question of why Dynamics 365 Business Central makes the invoice date something *DUMB!* when invoicing days/week/a month after a sales order is created.
There should be a selection of choices for the default invoice date for when BC posts a sales order subsequent to when the SO was created. As a food distributor, we need the invoice date to be when the product is sent out the door...and by default, for us, this is the day we post a sales order to an invoice - NOT THE DATE THE SALES ORDER WAS CREATED (sometimes) A WEEK PREVIOUS. To have to install an extension to "fix" this functionality is very klunky for something that should be built in.
We used to use NAV 2012 and this wasn't a problem. Will Microsoft put this on a list of up-and-coming features? This is basic and a common need. We used the old system for many years, the invoicing girls don't even think of changing the invoice date when posting our sales orders and I don't think they should have to on nearly every order.
ALL of our orders start off as a sales order, and then we pick the order touching it up with product shorts before invoicing.
I find it crazy this is the only forum message thread related to this issue that I can easily find doing a search (I'm not ranting at you personally, please understand *smile*).