Create Invoice (actual invoice, not just report) before shipping?

We have a need to create a real invoice as soon as the order books, regardless of whether or not the order has fully shipped.
Currently we're creating two separate orders, invoicing one and then shipping from the other, each with different items (a bill only and a fulfill only item) but as you can imagine this can get cumbersome.
Without getting into guarantees and/or commitments (since that would be a very major change), is there any way to facilitate this?
I was thinking of just putting the different items on the same sales order, but I'm not sure if the order will interface to AR until all items on it have shipped.
Am I missing anything?
thanks!
-j

Hello,
On this forum was similar topic Re: Invoice before the delivery
I gave this advice:
"I think sales order should has two line with the same item. One line has worflow (only invoice), second line should has workflow with only issue from inventory. After booking you have line in interface and you can use autoinvoice. Second line you can allocate if it is necessary. In this case you will have invoice before issue."
I wonder how to make this requirement and I find 1058043.1. This is not impossible in standard but I think it is possible with custom code. You have to create pl/sql code witch will insert data to ar interface. Now you have to put this activity to custom workflow before issue( shippment ) or create request run manually.
Regards,
Luko

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