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An accountant wants sales order to be automatically fulfilled and invoiced after creation, is there a simple way to do this?

Why would you create an SO instead of just directly creating an invoice?

The point of an SO is to manage your operations - if there's no operations to manage - then you may as well just create an invoice directly. You'll get the same inventory impact as auto fulfill and invoice generation.

<@UER9Q3SGM> I'm not too sure, but his reasoning was that the GL impact was being altered in a way he did not want. The workaround he thought would work was this.

something about if a late order was added and the date was before the other invoice, it would mess up the inventory impact

Unless you are backdating the sales order and invoice

in which case - your dates/inventory/GL impacts are likely all screwy.

the way some of our sales works, there will have to be backdating. poor practice, but for now it's the only method that is reasonable

I'd be tempted to put the "date" that is backdated in a custom field instead of changing the transaction date.

and cut out the extra transactions/process.

hmm that's not a bad idea.. I was trying to think of a better alternative

I'll run this by the accountant and see if this would work, thank you!