Revenue Recognition for Sales Orders and Invoice Date

I have a scenario that I believe will be helped by using the revenue recognition rules now available in 9.1, but have a question.  In my scenario product is shipped to a customer but may remain intransit for quite sometime.  We're technically not allowed to invoice them until they've received the product.  Revenue recognition seems like a good fit for incurring the revenue but based on what I've read, it still appears that the invoice will age from the time it is posted to AR.  That said, other than using special terms for a customer or manually entering the invoice