Accepted status needs help

We are having the same major issues with invoicing within BOOKS. Please see if programmers can change back or at least add one more option.

Here is the problem:

We build custom made products and require a deposit on these products.
We need to be able to mark an estimate as accepted But, NOT have it convert to an invoice because if we convert to an invoice and the customers terms are due upon receipt then all of our invoices show up as overdue.

We do not need two options to convert to an invoice. We already have an option to do that which for some of your customers would obviously mean that the estimate was accepted. Can you change the accepted status so that it does not convert to an invoice or add a new one that says in process or something similar.

Quick books allows us to show a deposit without it affecting the overdue status of our invoices.

Thanks.