A late payment mention is the company's choice, on an invoice to a business

Status: accepted

Context

A pack declares its late_payment mention as data: the sentence that tells a customer the interest and the recovery costs the law gives a seller paid late. document_legal_mentions printed it on every sale invoice and every sale credit note of the country, and no company could leave it out. Between two businesses the rules on late payment in commercial transactions apply whether the invoice states them or not: the sentence recalls a right, it does not create one. It says nothing on a credit note, which gives money back, and the right it recalls is not a consumer's.

Decision

A company setting, on by default. companies.invoice_late_payment_mention, a boolean, true unless the company says false. It is read by the view, so every renderer of the documents — the PDF, a shared link, an e-invoice that carries the notes — follows it with no code of its own. It holds for every pack that declares a late_payment mention; the sentence, its law and its wording stay the pack's.

One path to the mention. The pack keeps its two facts about late payment: country_defaults.late_payment_reference, where the interest and the recovery indemnity come from, which an accountant follows and no renderer prints; and the legal_mention_templates row under late_payment, the sentence a document prints. The setting is the company's switch on that sentence, in the one view every renderer reads, and nowhere else.

Where the right is. The view selects the mention on a sale_invoice only, never a sale_credit_note, and only when the document's contact is a business, contacts.is_company. A sale invoice that names no contact yet prints nothing about late payment, because nothing says who the buyer is.

Read at rendering. As the colour and the typeface of the company, the setting is read when a document is rendered: switching it off shows on the next PDF of every invoice.

Consequences

• Every company that exists keeps the sentence on its invoices to a business and loses it on its credit notes and its invoices to a consumer.
• A country whose law asks a sentence of every invoice, consumer or not, declares it under always, which this setting does not touch.
• The MCP tool update_company_profile sets it; a screen that shows the appearance of the invoice offers it beside the colour and the typeface.

See also

• supabase/migrations/20261029010100_a_late_payment_mention_is_the_companys_choice.sql
• tests/document_rules.test.ts