Adding Payments to an Issued Invoice

[Leestex]

Hello billy team,

I am testing the “Fatura” type of Invoice, which, as per standard practice, is issued first and paid afterwards. However, I’ve encountered a challenge with adding Payments to an Invoice after it has been issued. Specifically, I noticed that the framework does not seem to provide a direct API method for persisting Payment records to an already issued Invoice within the Payments utility package:
https://github.com/premium-minds/billy/blob/master/billy-portugal/src/main/java/com/premiumminds/billy/portugal/util/Payments.java

Furthermore, the GenericInvoiceBuilderImpl class’s addPayment function is annotated with @NotOnUpdate, preventing the update of an Invoice instance after it has been persisted:

billy/billy-core/src/main/java/com/premiumminds/billy/core/services/builders/impl/GenericInvoiceBuilderImpl.java

Lines 252 to 253 in 5387f05

	@NotOnUpdate
	public <T extends Payment> TBuilder addPayment(Builder<T> paymentBuilder) {

Given this context, is there a recommended approach within the Billy framework to add Payment information to an Invoice after the initial issuance? Essentially, I’m looking to establish a flow where an Invoice is created and issued, and then, once payments are made, those payments are added to the corresponding Invoice.

Alternatively, if there's a workaround or a planned feature update that could address this issue, I'd appreciate any information you can share.

[froque]

This is something not currently supported. We are persistent payment information before persisting invoice information.

Can not think of a workaround.