How to: Suggest Vendor Payments
In the Payment Journal window, you can use the Suggest Vendor Payments batch job to suggest payment lines. Lines for things like payments that are due soon, or payments where a payment discount is available, are suggested based on your settings.
To benefit fully from suggested lines, you must first prioritise your vendors. For more information, see How to: Prioritise Vendors.
Vendor entries that are not On Hold are not included.
Important
If you want to take advantage of payment discounts, and have entered an available amount, the amount will be used for:
- Prioritised overdue vendor entries first in order of priority.
- Overdue vendor entries that are not prioritised.
- Open vendor entries that qualify for payment discounts, arranged by vendor number.
To use the Suggest Vendor Payments function
- Choose the
icon, enter Payment Journals, and then choose the related link. - Open the relevant journal, and then choose the Suggest Vendor Payments action.
- Fill in the fields as necessary. Choose a field to read a short description of the field or link to more information.
- Choose the OK button.
To insert the due date as posting date on payment journal lines
When you use the Suggest Vendor Payments batch job to create payment lines for your vendors, you can fill two special fields to make sure that the generated lines use the due date to calculate the posting date. These fields are Calculate Posting Date from Applies-to-Doc Due Date and Applies-to-Doc Due Date Offset.
Important
You cannot use the Calculate Posting Date from Applies-to-Doc Due Date field together with the Find Payment Discounts field or the Summarise per Vendor field. If the posting date is based on the due date, some payment discounts may not calculate correctly because the posting date is after the payment discount date.
Also, if the calculated posting date is in the past, then the posting date is moved up to the work date, and a warning is displayed.
Alternatively, you can manually create payment lines using the due date to calculate the posting date. After you apply vendor ledger entries, you can use the Calculate Posting Date action to update the posting date on the journal line with the due date of the related purchase invoice. For more information, see How to: Apply Purchase Transactions Manually.
Note
If the purchase invoice is overdue, the posting date is set to the work date, and the font on the line becomes red.
See Also
Managing Payables
Making Payments
Working with General Journals
Working with Dynamics NAV