order numbers by payment method

Hi, is there a way to have different order numbers for different payment modules?? would help a lot if we could unify orders for the accounting. thanks

or if it's impossible to achieve payment module dependant numbering,
is there a way to add some letters or numbers to the order lets say for verified visa VI+order#, paypal PP+order#...or just 11+order# and 22+# and so on...

The orders_id is an auto-incremented field and changing that would break everything so no ... not really ...

Do you just need to make payment stand out more somewhere?

well kind of.. my accountist asked if it would be possible to somehow identify the transactions between different payment methods since now there's just the order number and amount in our account which doesn't tell her so much... but if playing with the order number is a no no we have to find some other way to do it... thanks linda! again.. :)

Depending on where you want to store or display the payment information you could always show the payment method next to the orders_id without messing up the orders_id ...