Relationship between vendor and vendor ledger entries
When you post transactions to vendors in Business Central, the following vendor entries are created:
Vendor ledger entries
Detailed vendor ledger entries
Explore the vendor ledger entries
Vendor entries provide more information about vendors and purchase business. Vendor ledger entries are posted entries from purchase documents such as purchase orders, purchase invoices, and journals, such as payment journals.
You can access the vendor ledger entries for a vendor as follows:
Select the Search for Page icon in the top-right corner of the page, enter vendors, and select the related link.
Select a vendor and open the vendor card by selecting the No. field.
Select Related, History, and then Ledger Entries.
You can also select one of the amount fields on the vendor list or vendor card, like the Balance (LCY) field.
Explore the detailed vendor ledger entries
To view the detail of a vendor ledger entry, you can select a vendor ledger entry and select Entry and then Detailed Ledger Entries.
The detailed vendor ledger entries store the actual amounts of the vendor transactions, such as an invoice. The vendor ledger entries show the amounts as FlowFields.
Examples of where additional detailed vendor ledger entries are created to change the vendor ledger entries include the following:
Foreign currency exchange rates
Payment discounts
Payment tolerances
Applications
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