Fields are presented in alphabetic order.
- Amount
- Specify the amount of the invoice.
- Apply To Invoice
- Specify the invoice that you want to apply the credit memo or debit memo
to. In addition to entering the invoice you want to apply the credit memo or debit
memo to, you must type an invoice number for the credit memo and debit memo
transaction. If you are entering a reversal, specify the invoice you want to reverse
in this field.
- Dispute
- When you enter a transaction, you can designate it as disputed. Disputed
transactions are ignored when you run Vendor Entry Pay Invoices Due
Report. The Vendor Cash Requirements Report also has
a column for disputed invoices to allow you to review them before processing
Vendor Entry Pay Invoices Due Report.
- If you are entering a trade invoice, the Set
Dispute Flag on Matching Invoices option in SA Administrator
Options-Vendors-Receiving determines the default for this
- Invoices, miscellaneous credits, and debit memos are the only transactions
that can be disputed. Disputing a transaction has no effect on the vendor's balances,
General Ledger, or Accounts Payable history transactions. determines the default for this
- Division
- The Division field is enterable
only if your company is using full divisionalized accounting (the Divisional option in SA Company
Setup is selected). The division is defaulted from the Vendor Setup
record and can be changed. You can specify the division number for invoices, rebates,
miscellaneous credits, and manual payments only.
- If you are not using divisionalized accounting (the Divisional option in SA Company
Setup is not selected), you do not have access to this
field.
- Immediate Pay
- The Immediate Pay option
indicates that you will pay the vendor immediately upon updating the transaction for
the amount of the invoice instead of updating the vendor's current balance. This
option is only available with Invoice transaction types. The Default to Immediate Pay option in SA
Administrator Options-Vendors-Invoice Defaults determines the default for
- When you select Immediate Pay,
the invoice, manual payment, and scheduled payment transactions automatically become
inactive. Additionally, you cannot split the terms of the invoice across several
scheduled payments. The vendor's General Ledger Bank and Discount accounts are
automatically updated instead of the vendor's Accounts Payable accounts. The vendor’s
General Ledger Addon and Expense/Asset accounts are also updated. You are expected to
print a check for the amount of the invoice in Vendor Entry Check
Print immediately after completing the transaction. Use the
Vendor Invoice Center Entry journal number to print the
check.
Note: The Immediate Pay option is
not supported for foreign currency transactions.
- Initial Purchase Order
-
If you know the purchase order, but do not know the vendor number, specify or look
up the PO number. The vendor number on the purchase order is automatically defaulted
in the Vendor # field.
If the vendor on the purchase order does not match the vendor on the invoice, this
message is displayed: Purchase Order Vendor: [Vendor# - Name] is different
than the Invoice Vendor: [Vendor# - Name]. Do You Want to Accept this Purchase
Order? You can click No to
re-enter the purchase order in the Initial Purchase
Order field. Otherwise, click Yes to proceed with the selected purchase order.
This verification occurs if you select the Ask
Confirmation When PO Vendor does not Match Invoice Vendor option in
Vendor Invoice Center Entry-Entry Defaults.
- Invoice #
- Specify the vendor's invoice number for this transaction. Use a new vendor
invoice number when you enter an invoice, miscellaneous credit, credit memo, or debit
memo transaction. When you create a credit memo or debit memo, you must also specify
an existing active invoice number in the Apply to
Invoice field.
- When you create a reversal, you are only required to specify an existing
active invoice number in the Apply To
Invoice field. For a manual payment, you can specify a new invoice
number.
- Do not specify an invoice number for a rebate transaction.
- You cannot specify a duplicate invoice number if an active invoice exists.
After an invoice has been paid and is inactive, you can reuse the invoice
number.
- Invoice Date
- The Invoice
Date field defaults to blank. If this is a recurring group, you do not
need to specify an invoice date since the date is obtained from the Invoice Date specified during Final
Update.
- If this is a one-time group, the Invoice Date is required. The invoice date is
usually the date on the vendor's invoice and is used to calculate the terms and
discount due dates. If necessary, you can change the invoice date at a later time if
the transaction has not been updated.
- To quickly enter the current date, specify t and
today’s date is defaulted in the field.
- When you update the transaction during Final Update or Vendor
Entry Group Update, specify the posting date and period you are updating
on the Journal window. Specifying a previous invoice date (back
dating) or future invoice date (future dating) here does not effect the period this
transaction is posted to.
- Invoice Proofs: GL
- The Invoice Proof displays the remaining amount to be costed on the
invoice. If the proof is 0, the invoice is fully
costed.
- Invoice Type
- The invoice type is user defined and can be used to group common
transactions together. All transactions with the same invoice type can be selected for
reporting through Vendor Cash Requirements Report and paying
through Vendor Entry Pay Invoices Due Report. The invoice type is
not required, however, it can increase the flexibility of Accounts Payable. For
example, you may assign all invoices due on the 10th to Type
"A," all invoices due on the 15th to Type
"B,"and so on. You may also group related invoices. All
utility invoices may be grouped as Type "Utl." When the
Vendor Cash Requirements Report and Vendor Entry Pay
Invoices Due Report are processed, you can choose to process only those
invoices grouped as "Utl."
- If you have specified a default invoice type on the Vendor
Setup record, that value is displayed in this field.
- Override
- Select this option if you want to override tolerances for the entire
purchase order related to this invoice. You can also select individual tolerances to
override for the entire invoice during the Final Update process.
- To override tolerances for individual line items on the purchase order,
select the Override Tolerance option on the
PO Line Entry window.
- PO Costing
- The PO Costing proof amount is displayed. If the PO Proof is 0, the purchase
order is fully costed and no further work is required for the purchase order. If the
proof is not 0, you must access the appropriate purchase order
costing windows in Vendor Invoice Center Entry and make the
necessary adjustments.
- Process Type
- The processing type initially defaults from the Vendor
Setup record. For the majority of transactions, you should not have to
change the processing type.
- Choose the processing type for this transaction. Depending on your
security, you can choose Expense, Addon,
or Trade. Choose Expense for expense
invoices,such as utilities and rent. If you are entering a merchandise invoice that
will be tied to a purchase order, choose Trade. Choose
Addons to record third-party addons.
- The availability of the processing types depends on your operator security
settings in SA Operator Setup-Accounting Controls. Your security
allows you to have access to all three processing types or any combination of the
three processing types. Not all processing types are available for all transaction
types. The following table illustrates which processing types are available for each
transaction type:
Transaction type |
Addon |
Expense |
Trade |
Invoice |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Credit Memo |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Debit Memo |
No |
Yes |
No |
Manual Payment |
No |
Yes |
No |
Miscellaneous Credit |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Rebate |
No |
No |
No |
Reversal |
NA |
NA |
NA |
- The Process Type field changes
to Reversal Type when you choose
Reversal. You must then indicate if the reversal is for an
invoice or a miscellaneous credit.
- This field is non-enterable after you access the Invoice # field. To make changes to the processing
type, you must cancel the work you have done on the invoice. If you have already
updated the invoice into the group, you cannot make changes to this field. You must
delete the invoice and re enter it to make changes to the processing
type.
- Reference
- Use the Reference field to
explain any necessary information associated with this record. References are manual
entries that are printed on the check to the vendor.
- If specific references have been set up in SA Table Code Value
Setup, specify a period (.) or pound (#) in the first position of the
Reference field, followed by the
reference number. After you press Tab, the actual description
is displayed in the field, replacing the reference number.
- Recon Method
- Select the reconciliation type for this invoice. Valid choices are
Line, Back order, and
Item. Line reconciliation requires you
to cost purchase orders line by line. Using the Line method,
you must specify the purchase order number, purchase order suffix, and line number. If
you do not specify all three pieces of information, an error message is
displayed.
- Back order reconciliation is similar to line
reconciliation. The main difference is that you do not have to specify the correct
suffix. With Back order reconciliation, all purchase orders are
matched against suffix –00 in Vendor Invoice Center Entry. The
reconciliation process looks at all suffixes to find the quantity on the
invoice.
- Item reconciliation only requires that you specify a
purchase order number and product. You do not have to specify the line number or
suffix. This reconciliation method is also used for items added through ED
Entry Processing Invoices.
- Suspend
- Indicate whether you want to suspend this transaction. Suspending a
transaction prevents it from being updated when you process Final Update or
Vendor Entry Group Update. This field is automatically selected
for purchase orders that are on AP Hold status. This means that special handling or
research is required before the invoice can be updated. You must maintain the
transaction and unsuspend it before General Ledger is updated.
- Terms
- The Terms field initially
defaults with the terms established in Vendor Setup
- Terms only apply to invoices, miscellaneous credits, and debit memos and
are defined in SA Table Code Value Setup. Vendors often offer
terms to induce a steady cash flow by providing an incentive for their customers to
pay within a certain discount period. For example, 2%10 n30offers a 2% discount if the
invoice is paid within ten days from the invoice date. If the discount period lapses,
the entire invoice is due within 30 days or service charges may be
applied.
- Transaction Type
- Select the type of transaction you want to enter. Valid transaction types
are:
- Invoice
- Rebate
- Miscellaneous Credit
- Credit Memo
- Manual Payment
- Debit Memo
- Reversal
- When you add an invoice in Vendor Invoice Center
Entry, the transaction code (invoice, misc credit, and so on) is saved with
the transaction record. This transaction code defaults the next time you add an
invoice. The last transaction code entered is not saved between sessions. On initial
entry into nullnullVendor Invoice Center Entry, the transaction code
defaults to Invoice. You can enter all transaction types in the
same journal.
- This field is non-enterable after you access the Invoice # field. To make changes to the transaction
type, you must cancel the work you have done on the invoice. If you have already
updated the invoice into the group, you cannot make changes to this field. You must
delete the invoice and re enter it to make changes to the transaction
type.
- When you post a transaction for a foreign vendor, the Exchange
Rate window is displayed automatically. The default currency description
is displayed along with the default exchange rate. You can override the exchange rate
if necessary, but you cannot specify a value of zero or less. To update the exchange
rate in SA Tables Currency Setup, select the Update field.
- General Ledger costs are converted to domestic amounts depending on the
most current exchange rate. If line item or header amounts are not posted to General
Ledger, they remain in foreign amounts. If the exchange rate conversion results in a
rounding difference, that amount is displayed on the General Ledger
Distribution window, where you can post it to the appropriate
account.
- Vendor #
- Specify the vendor number for the transaction you are
processing. You must specify a vendor number for all transaction types. After you
specify the vendor number and press Tab, the
vendor lookup name and terms are automatically defaulted from the Vendor Setup record. After you add a new invoice to the
group, the Vendor # field
is automatically populated with the vendor number from the last invoice.
- If you select Ask Confirmation When PO
Vendor does not Match Invoice Vendor in Vendor Invoice Center
Entry-Entry Defaults, the vendor from the purchase order is validated
against this vendor number. If they are different, the message Purchase Order
Vendor: [Vendor # and Name] is different than the Invoice Vendor: [Vendor# - Name].
Do You Want to Accept this Purchase Order? is displayed. You must click
Yes or No to proceed.
- If you don’t know the vendor number, specify the PO number in the
Initial Purchase Order field. The vendor
number from the purchase order is automatically defaulted in the Vendor # field.
- If you use the vendor lookup and search for the vendor number based on a
purchase order, the purchase order is automatically costed for this transaction. If
the PO Proof is 0,
the purchase order is fully costed and no further work is required for the purchase
order. If the proof is not 0, you must access the appropriate
purchase order costing windows in Vendor Invoice Center Entry and
make the necessary adjustments.
- When using a miscellaneous vendor (999999999999) to enter an invoice, the Manual Address window is displayed. The defaults
specified in Vendor Setup for the miscellaneous
vendor record are displayed, but you can override them. The name specified in the
Manual Address window is printed on the
Vendor Cash Requirements Report.
-
Note: The Vendor # field is non-enterable
after you access the Invoice
# field. To make changes to the Vendor
# field, you must cancel the work you have done on the invoice. If you
have already updated the invoice into the group, you cannot make changes to this
field. You must delete the invoice and re enter it to make changes to the
vendor.