Accounts Payable - Vendor Invoices

Overview

The Vendor Invoices (VI) screen is used by the accounting department to enter vendor invoices received for processing.  This screen can also be used to enter vendor invoice adjustments (i.e., positive or negative values).  Transactions entered here can be charged to all accounts that are valid for data entry in the specified Legal Entity including accounts that require project information. 

After posting a vendor invoice, the document can be voided which will create a new document that is the negative of the original document.  The voiding document should be treated the same as if it had been applied to the original document.

Vendor Invoices can be related to one Purchase Order (PO). You can relate the VI to a Purchase Order on the Vendor Invoice Summary page. If the VI is related to a PO, field values may be restricted based on values included from the PO. If the PO has a Receiver/Approver assigned to it, then that Receiver/Approver will be assigned as an approver of the VI for the detail lines related to the PO, regardless of approval group settings.

Using the Vendor Invoices search / list screen, you can search for and view existing entries, and select the option to download invoices as PDFs (available for Cloud customers only). From this screen, users can also create, edit, post (previously submitted) and void Vendor Invoices.  Vendor Invoices can have one of the following statuses:  INUSE, SUBMITTED, APPROVING, APPROVED, POSTED, or DISAPPROVED.

For intercompany efforts, users with appropriate access can select organizations that belong to the legal entity specified in the multi-entity structure defined in Setup Multi-Entity Associations. This allows vendor invoices to support intercompany invoices so that the vendors can be paid and the funds can be allocated across the organizations identified in the intercompany structure.

Note: Vendor Invoices that have a status of SUBMITTED will be changed to APPROVED during the migration process from 10.3 to 11.0 version. This is due to the change in 11.0 where the status must go from SUBMITTED to APPROVED and then to POSTED. Without this change in the migration, pre-migration Vendor Invoices that were in SUBMITTED status would not be able to be POSTED.

Roles

This screen is available to users having any of the following roles: Administrator, AP User, AP Viewer, AP Poster, or VI User.  

• Users having the AP User role are authorized to create and view Vendor Invoices (limited by Organization Access restrictions).
• Users having the AP Poster role are authorized to create, view, submit, and post Vendor Invoices (limited by Organization Access restrictions).  Vendor Invoices can be posted directly from the Vendor Invoices List for those entries having a status of SUBMITTED, or individual Vendor Invoices can be posted directly from the Vendor Invoice screen using the Post/Next button.
• Users having only the VI User role can create, view, and submit Vendor Invoices (limited by Organization Access restrictions). However, they cannot edit detail lines (labor/expense/item).

License

This screen is available with the Project Financials family of Unanet licenses.

Topics covered on this help page include:

• Search                          (to refine the list of Vendor Invoices; print option for invoices )

• List                                (to view, edit, delete, void or post Vendor Invoices)

• Add                                (to add Vendor Invoices)

• Edit                        

• • Summary        (to edit Vendor Invoice summary information)

  • Details             (to edit Vendor Invoice details)

  • • Labor

    • Expenses (expenses that do not require quantity, rate, or UOM)

    • Items (expenses that do require quantity, rate, and UOM)

  • Attachments    (to add attachments to a Vendor Invoice)

  • Matched

  • • Labor

    • Expenses

  • PO Funding Cap Adj

• View                               (to see a view only copy of a Vendor Invoice)

• • Copy                 (to copy Vendor Invoices)

• Document Totals and Balances Widgets

• Approval Process

• Post                               (to post Vendor Invoices)

• Void                               (to void Vendor Invoices)

• Closed Fiscal Year    (adjusting entries when posting/voiding to a closed fiscal year)

You may also be interested in:

• Create Vendor Invoices from Expense Reports

• Create Vendor Invoices from Matched Transactions

• Vendor Payments

• Bulk Vendor Payment Creation

• Check Print History

• Purchase Requisitions

• Purchase Orders

• Vendor Invoice Status Report

• User Vendor Invoice Status Report

• Financial Documents Stored Procedures

• Accounts Payable Approvals (Vendor Invoice approvals)

• AP Admin Guide - Vendor Invoice Entry (search for this topic in the Knowledge Center)

• AP Admin Guide - VI Approvals (search for this topic in the Knowledge Center)

• FAQ - How can I quickly post many recurring vendor invoices? (search for this topic in the Knowledge Center)

• FAQ - Does Unanet have a Vendor Invoice Edit (GCS Voucher Edit Report)? (search for this topic in the Knowledge Center)

Search

Using the Vendor Invoice Search screen, you can refine the list of Vendor Invoices with which you have interest, by supplying search criteria and clicking on the List tab.

In order to generate a PDF of the invoice, select the Print all selected vendor invoices option on this page (available for Cloud customers only). Then select the invoices on the List page and click Print at the bottom of the page. See Print Vendor Invoice field description for more information.

Field Descriptions (click on a link below for additional information):

Note: Users having only the VI User role will not see these filter fields: Organization, AP Account, Creator, Modifier, Submitter, and Poster.

List

The resulting list will resemble the following example.    From this screen, you can use the available options to view, edit, delete, post, print, or void a particular Vendor Invoice.  

Drill Down Note: You can click on the value in the Balance column to view the Vendor Invoice Balance Details popup report.  The value in the Balance column is calculated as follows:

• For INUSE documents, this will reflect the Vendor Invoice amount.
• For all others -
• • Document's Invoice Amount
  • Minus voiding document's Invoice Amount
  • Minus sum of Applied amounts and Discount amounts from Vendor Payment Paid Document details that include this document.
• Note that there would be no Balance on Voiding Documents.

Field Descriptions (click on a link below for additional information):

Vendor Invoice - Balance Details Popup

The Vendor Invoice - Balance Details Popup report will resemble the following:

Add Vendor Invoice

Clicking on the link (available on the Vendor Invoice - Search/List screens), will present you with the Vendor Invoice - Summary screen where you will supply the summary information for a Vendor Invoice.  Subsequent to providing the summary level information, you will then need to navigate to the Details option, and supply Vendor Invoice detail line items.  On this Summary screen, you will enter information regarding the Vendor that sent the invoice, payment options, accounts payable information, the document and post dates, whether this is a recurring entry, whether there should be a payment hold, and any comments you'd like to associate with the entry.

Field Descriptions (click on a link below for additional information):

Edit Vendor Invoice - Summary

The Edit Vendor Invoice screen (which you can get to by navigating to the Summary left menu option after clicking the pencil icon from the Vendor Invoice list screen), is nearly identical to the Vendor Invoice Add screen.  On this screen you can modify most fields with the exception of Legal Entity (which can no longer be modified once any Detail line items have been added to this Vendor Invoice).  This screen also displays the Vendor Invoice Document # assigned to this Vendor Invoice and also includes a Totals section, which recaps the amounts currently entered for any Detail line items.

The Summary menu option will become unavailable once the Vendor Invoice reaches the POSTED status.

Field Descriptions (click on a link below for additional information):

Buttons (click on a link below for additional information):

Edit Vendor Invoice - Labor Details

This screen is available to enter the labor detail line items making up a Vendor Invoice (which you can get to by navigating to the Labor left menu option after clicking the pencil icon from the Vendor Invoice list screen).

The Labor menu option will become unavailable once the Vendor Invoice reaches the POSTED status.  

Header

The information in the 'header' section of the screen will recap the information provided on the document Summary, as well as Document Totals and PO Balances (if related to a PO).

Details Grid

This section of the Vendor Invoice Details screen is where you will be entering the individual labor line items that make up the Vendor Invoice.  Note that in order to submit or post a Vendor Invoice, the total of the detail lines must equal the Invoice Amount provided on the Summary screen.  This screen will include the display of informational error messages to help point out any issues with the current document that would prevent submittal.

For those Accounts that have been designated as requiring Project information (configured on the Admin >> Setup >> Accounts screen with the Require Project indicator checked), you can also provide additional 'reference' information (such as the project, task, project type, labor category, and person).

The Approved PO Labor Lines will display open lines if the VI is related to a PO. You can click on the add detail icon - - to create a VI line from a PO line. New VI Labor Lines are the lines being added to this VI.

Field Descriptions for New VI Labor Lines (click on a link below for additional information):

Buttons (click on a link below for additional information):

Edit Vendor Invoice - Expense Details

This screen is available to enter the expense detail line items making up a Vendor Invoice (which you can get to by navigating to the Expenses left menu option after clicking the pencil icon from the Vendor Invoice list screen).

The Expenses menu option will become unavailable once the Vendor Invoice reaches the POSTED status.  

Header

The information in the 'header' section of the screen will recap the information provided on the document Summary.

Details Grid

This section of the Vendor Invoice Details screen is where you will be entering the individual expense line items that make up the Vendor Invoice.  Note that in order to submit or post a Vendor Invoice, the total of the detail lines must equal the Invoice Amount provided on the Summary screen.  This screen will include the display of informational error messages to help point out any issues with the current document that would prevent submittal.

For those Accounts that have been designated as requiring Project information (configured on the Admin >> Setup >> Accounts screen with the Require Project indicator checked), you can also provide additional 'reference' information (such as the project, task, project type, expense type, and person).

The Approved PO Expense Lines will display open lines if the VI is related to a PO. You can click on the add detail icon - - to create a VI line from a PO line. New VI Expense Lines are the lines being added to this VI.

If you delete a Detail line item on a Vendor Invoice that was originally created by the Create Vendor Invoice from Expense Report function, then that Expense Report will once again be eligible to be included in a future Create Vendor Invoice process.

Field Descriptions for New VI Expense Lines (click on a link below for additional information):

Buttons (click on a link below for additional information):

Edit Vendor Invoice - Item Details

This screen is available to enter the item detail lines making up a Vendor Invoice (which you can get to by navigating to the Items left menu option after clicking the pencil icon from the Vendor Invoice list screen).

The Items menu option will become unavailable once the Vendor Invoice reaches the POSTED status.  

Header

The information in the 'header' section of the screen will recap the information provided on the document Summary.

Details Grid

This section of the Vendor Invoice Details screen is where you will be entering the individual item lines that make up the Vendor Invoice.  Note that in order to submit or post a Vendor Invoice, the total of the detail lines must equal the Invoice Amount provided on the Summary screen.  This screen will include the display of informational error messages to help point out any issues with the current document that would prevent submittal.

For those Accounts that have been designated as requiring Project information (configured on the Admin >> Setup >> Accounts screen with the Require Project indicator checked), you can also provide additional 'reference' information (such as the project, task, project type, and person).

The Approved PO Item Lines will display open lines if the VI is related to a PO. You can click on the add detail icon - - to create a VI line from a PO line. New VI Item Lines are the lines being added to this VI.

Field Descriptions for New VI Item Lines (click on a link below for additional information):

Buttons (click on a link below for additional information):

Vendor Invoice Attachments

This screen is available to attach one or more documents to a Vendor Invoice (which you can get to by navigating to the Attachments left menu option after clicking the pencil icon from the Vendor Invoice list screen).

Users can add attachments regardless of the Vendor Invoice status. Only Administrators can delete attachments when the Vendor Invoice status is Posted or Approved.

Note: The Unanet Administrator may want to suggest guidelines with regards to what types of files may be acceptable to be used as Vendor Invoice attachments, particularly in the case where any documents are being scanned and saved as a graphics file. Certain graphics file formats are known to result in much larger files sizes than others and you may want to consider suggesting a specific file type to help control the amount of data being stored in your database.  Generally speaking, jpg and gif files tend to be much smaller than tif and png file formats.

To assist with the management of allowable attachment types and size, the administrator can use the following three properties: Maximum Size Allowed for each attachment  (unanet.attachment.max_size), File Extensions that are Not Allowed  (unanet.attachment.invalid_file_extensions) and File Extensions that are allowed  (unanet.attachment.valid_file_extensions).

Using this screen, the user can add, remove or view an attachment.  The Save button will save the changes to the attachment screen and return the user to the Vendor Invoice Details screen.  The Cancel button will also navigate the user to the Vendor Invoice Details screen but without saving any changes.  Clicking on the paper clip icon will launch a new window and attempt to display the attachment (assuming your local PC knows what application to execute to view the specific file type).

Field Descriptions (click on a link below for additional information):

Where can attachments be seen?

The Vendor Invoice >> List screen will contain a paperclip () icon to indicate attachments exist on a particular Vendor Invoice.  Clicking on the icon will navigate the user to the Vendor Invoice >> View screen with the Attachment section expanded.

When viewing a Vendor Invoice that has attachments, the list of attachments will appear in an expandable table under the displayed Vendor Invoice details as in the example below.  You can click on the paper clip icon () and view the attached document (assuming you have the necessary local software installed to view the particular file type).  This section will only appear if attachments exist.

Vendor Invoice Matched Labor

This screen is available to view, add, defer, submit, or post matched labor (i.e., all timesheet lines from Non-Employee (PO) users related to the PO that are in LOCKED or EXTRACTED status). You can get to this screen by navigating to the Matched Labor left menu option after clicking the pencil icon from the Vendor Invoice list screen.

When a VI associated with a PO is created, the matched labor will show on this page. Matched labor lines are those lines associated with the PO where the date is on or before the invoice date, and the timesheet status is LOCKED or EXTRACTED and not in pending adjustment, and it is not associated with another VI. If you change the PO, you must then click on the icon to pull in the unmatched labor. This is not done automatically.

The Matched Labor menu option will become unavailable once the Vendor Invoice reaches the POSTED status.

Field Descriptions (click on a link below for additional information):

Buttons (click on a link below for additional information):

Vendor Invoice Matched Expenses

This screen is available to view, add, defer, submit, or post matched expenses (i.e., all expense reports from Non-Employee (PO) users related to the PO that are in LOCKED or EXTRACTED status). You can get to this screen by navigating to the Matched Expenses left menu option after clicking the pencil icon from the Vendor Invoice list screen.

When a VI associated with a PO is created, the matched expenses will show on this page. Matched expenses are those associated with the PO where the expense date is on or before the invoice date, and the expense status is LOCKED or EXTRACTED , and it is not associated with another VI. If you change the PO, you must then click on the icon to pull in the unmatched expenses. This is not done automatically.

The Matched Expenses menu option will become unavailable once the Vendor Invoice reaches the POSTED status.

Field Descriptions (click on a link below for additional information):

Buttons (click on a link below for additional information):

Vendor Invoice PO Funding Cap Adj

If a VI is matched to a PO, then PO Funding Cap Adj will be available from the menu. You can view, delete, and calculate PO funding cap adjustments from this screen. You can also submit and post the VI. You must click on the Calculate PO Funding Cap Adj button in order to see funding cap adjustments.

If the related PO Summary or related PO lines have Vendor Invoice Overage field set to "PO Fund Cap Adj.", then you can calculate the funding cap adjustment on this page. A funding cap adjustment basically happens when you overspend the cap amount from the related PO on your VI. The Vendor Invoice can still be submitted, but the overage amount is placed in an at-risk account. When PO funding is increased, the at-risk amount will be automatically reversed on the next VI.

Funding caps are calculated for detail lines first, then calculated for the PO summary.

A basic example is a PO with an amount of $1000, and then a VI created for that PO with the amount of $1020. The funding cap adjustment is then -$20.

Buttons (click on a link below for additional information):

View Vendor Invoice

This screen is available to view a read-only version of the Vendor Invoice document (which you can get to by navigating to the View left menu option after clicking the pencil icon from the Vendor Invoice list screen or by clicking on the view icon on the Vendor Invoice >> List).  

Once the Vendor Invoice reaches the POSTED status, this will be the only available menu option. Under Document Totals, the following items will only display if the VI has a PO: Matched Labor, Matched Expenses, and PO Funding Cap Adj.

The Invoice Amount displayed for Project Approvers is the sum of line amounts that are related to the project. The amount displayed for Receiver/Approvers is the sum of line amounts that are related to the Purchase Order.

If the user viewing the Vendor Invoice has access to this Vendor Invoice's Legal Entity, a Copy button will be available (regardless of the Vendor Invoice status).  If the status is anything other than Posted, an Edit button will also be available as will a Place on Hold or Take Off Hold button.

Note: Being "on hold" merely indicates invoices for a Vendor will not automatically be considered for payment during the Bulk Vendor Payment Creation process.  Users can continue to manually issue Vendor Payments via the Vendor Payment screens, though the "on hold" indicator will be displayed for informational purposes.

Place On Hold / Take Off Hold

Once a vendor invoice has reached the SUBMITTED or POSTED status, the ability to further manipulate the "Hold Payment" option will remain.  Rather than editing the Vendor Invoice and checking or unchecking the Hold Payment check box on the Summary screen, you can use these buttons to continue to manipulate that option.  Only one button will appear at a time depending on whether the Vendor Invoice is current on hold.

Note: Users with VI User role only cannot place on hold/take off hold.

Copy Vendor Invoice

The Copy button is available from the View screen (if the user viewing the Vendor Invoice has access to the Legal Entity of this Vendor Invoice).  Once you populate the values on this screen, click on Copy to invoke the copy or Cancel to abandon the copy.  Clicking on the Copy option will take you to the newly created Vendor Invoice.

The copy function will create a duplicate of the current Vendor Invoice (including labor/expense/item detail lines) with the following differences:

• If the Keep Original Line Item Dates is not checked, the newly copied Vendor Invoice line item dates will all be populated with the supplied Document Date.
• The Post Date and Fiscal Period on the newly copied Vendor Invoice will reflect the supplied Post Date and Fiscal Period respectively.
• None of the Recurring attributes will be copied to the newly created Vendor Invoice.
• No attachments will be copied.
• Created and Last Updated attributes will not be copied.
• Matched Transactions (labor and expenses) and Funding Cap Adjustments will not be copied.

Field Descriptions (click on a link below for additional information):

Document Totals and Balances Widgets

You will see some widgets at the top of the VI Summary page for your created VI: Document Totals and possibly PO Balances, if the VI is associated with a PO. These widgets provide a snapshot view of the document and balances. The Document Totals widget only shows totals for the current document. The PO Balances widget lists the approved POs, Posted VIs, and related balances.

The Document Totals for Labor, Expenses, Items, Matched Labor and Expenses, and PO Funding Cap Adj. will get updated with the amounts entered for the respective Labor, Expense, Item detail lines, Matched Labor and Expenses, and PO Funding Cap Adjustments.

The detail line and view pages will also display a Document Summary.

See below for specific field descriptions.

Field Descriptions:

Approval Process

If Vendor Invoice (approval_process.require.approval.vendor_invoice)  is set to "Requires Approvals Always", you must choose an approval group when you submit. Following is the process if approval is required:

• User selects approval group - status changes to SUBMITTED (unless user is the only approver in the approval group, then status changes to APPROVED).

In order to see a list of approval groups on the submit screen, the submitter on the VI must be a VI Submitter in an approval group. See Accounts Payable Approval Groups.

• Approver approves VI - status changes to APPROVING.
• All approvers in the approval group approve the VI - status changes to APPROVED.
• If an approver disapproves the VI - status changes to DISAPPROVED.

Note: The VI will be re-validated upon approval.  If the VI is no longer valid for approval, it will be automatically disapproved by the system.

Note: Other options for the Vendor Invoice (approval_process.require.approval.vendor_invoice) property include "Conditionally Requires Approvals", "Optional Approvals", and "Disabled Approvals". Please click on the property link for more information.

Note: If the VI is associated with a PO that has a Receiver/Approver assigned to it, then that Receiver/Approver will be assigned as an approver of the VI for the detail lines related to the PO, regardless of approval group settings.

Post Vendor Invoice

Roles

This screen is available to users having any of the following roles: Administrator or AP Poster.   Note that AP Posters are limited to posting Vendor Invoices for the Legal Entities they have access to via Financial Organization Access.

Vendor Invoices can be posted from the following screens:

• Individual Vendor Invoice Post -- When editing the Details grid or Matched Labor/Expenses for a Vendor Invoice, the current Vendor Invoice can be posted by clicking the Post/Next button.  Vendor Invoices in the INUSE or SUBMITTED status may be posted from this screen.
• Bulk Vendor Invoice Post -- When listing one or many Vendor Invoices on the Vendor Invoice >> List screen, the user can check one or many Vendor Invoices and click on the Post button to invoke a post for many Vendor Invoices.  Only those Vendor Invoices in the Approved status can be included in a bulk post.

The posting process includes the following (not necessarily generated in this order):

1. Create General Ledger Entries --  GL entries are only generated when posting to the General Ledger (i.e. Post to General Ledger (unanet.financials.post_to_gl) property enabled and the Post to General Ledger Effective Date (unanet.financials.post_to_gl.eff_date) <= document post date).
   Attributes for the general ledger entry will include (for the individual entries, those attributes that are different than the general entry will be noted):    

1. • Feature - VENDOR INVOICE
   • Document Number - Current document's document number
   • Post Date - Current document's post date
   • Fiscal Month - Fiscal month containing post date of current document
   • Account - Described below
   • Organization - Described below
   • Project - Optional, relevant to Detail grid entries.
   • Description - Current document's description (exception - Detail entry uses detail documents description)
   • Transaction Date - Current document's document date (exception - Detail entry uses detail documents document date)
     
   • Summary -- Create general ledger record for the non-zero invoice amount from the Summary.  
   • • The Summary amount acts as an off-setting value to the Detail amounts.
     • The GL amount recorded will be the value of the Invoice Amount field on the Summary record.
     • The AP Org and AP Account used will be taken directly from the Summary record.
     • A positive amount will be recorded as a Credit amount.
     • A negative amount will be recorded as a Debit amount.
       
   • Detail -- Create general ledger records for the non-zero rows in the Detail grid. (Note: For Labor and Item detail lines, if hours (for Labor) or quantity (for Items) is greater than zero, then GL entries will be generated, even if amount is zero.)
   • • The GL amount recorded will be the value of the Amount field.
     • The Org and Account used will be taken directly from the Detail record.
     • A positive amount will be recorded as a Debit amount.
     • A negative amount will be recorded as a Credit amount.

1. • Matched Labor -- Create general ledger records for the matched labor rows.
2. • The Account and Org will be the actual posted values if labor cost posting has been completed, otherwise standard posting group logic will determine Account and Org.
   • Postings are summarized based on the General Ledger Labor Cost Offset Post Level (unanet.financials.gl_post_level.labor_cost_offset) property.
   • Hours are reversed out from labor cost post values so the sum will equal zero when all of the accruals have been included in a VI.
   • A positive amount will be recorded as a Debit amount.
   • A negative amount will be recorded as a Credit amount.

1. • Matched Expenses -- Create general ledger records for the matched expense rows.
2. • The Account and Org will be the actual posted values if expense report cost posting has been completed, otherwise standard posting group logic will determine Account and Org.
   • Postings are summarized based on the General Ledger Reimbursable Expense Cost Offset Post Level (unanet.financials.gl_post_level.expense_cost_reimbursable_offset) property.
   • Expenses are reversed out from the Expense Report Offset - Reimbursable account.
   • A positive amount will be recorded as a Debit amount.
   • A negative amount will be recorded as a Credit amount.

1. • Funding Cap Adjustments -- Create general ledger records for the funding cap adjustments.
2. • The Account and Org will use posting group values for the VI Funding Cap Adjustment account category (see Setup Posting Groups).
   • A positive amount will be recorded as a Debit amount.
   • A negative amount will be recorded as a Credit amount.

2. Create Project Expense Entries -- Project expense entries are only generated when the document has non-zero Detail rows that include project info.  For each of those rows, we will create project expense records (to be available for subsequent Billing Post & Invoicing activities).

3. Create Next Vendor Invoice Occurrence -- Only when this document is configured to be a Recurring document
   • Further, only when the max number of occurrences is blank or if the occurrence of the current document is less than the max number of occurrences.

• Additional Vendor Invoice specific validations:
• • A Vendor Invoice cannot be posted if the sum of Details does not equal the invoice amount (as recorded in the Vendor Invoice Summary Page > Invoice Amount field).
  • A Vendor Invoice cannot be posted if the Vendor is not valid for the document's Legal Entity.
  • AP Account must be active and allow entry on the post date of the document.
  • AP Organization must be valid for the AP Account, must be active, and allow entry on the post date of the document.
  • If  the Vendor Invoice has status of INUSE and its related PO amount is reduced and approved, that Vendor Invoice will not be posted unless the related PO's Vendor Invoice Overage field is "Don't Limit".
  • The vendor invoice cannot be associated to a Closed PO or a Closed PO line.

Void Vendor Invoice

Roles

This screen is available to users having any of the following roles: Administrator and AP Poster.  

Clicking on the Void icon () in the Vendor Invoice List will allow you to void a POSTED Vendor Invoice (generating a negating / voiding Vendor Invoice, reversing GL and Project Expense entries, etc).   This action does not delete any entries nor will it recalculate any values, but rather creates a set of reversing entries based on the original transactions.  This is true even if attributes referenced in the original documents have subsequently been made inactive, the voided transaction will continue to use those attributes to reflect the reversing values.

A voiding vendor invoice is treated as the equivalent of a payment application in regards to the originating vendor invoice (e.g. it would typically take the vendor invoice outstanding balance down to zero).  Note, however, that it can also take the amount of the vendor invoice below zero (or above zero if the voided document was originally a negative document) in those cases where the original document has already been included in one or more vendor payments.

The posting process includes the following:

1. Create a "Voiding" Vendor Invoice -- Clone the document being voided.  The voiding document will be identical to the original document with the following differences:

1. • All amounts (i.e. Summary invoice amount, and all Detail grid row amounts) are reversed (i.e. have opposite signs) on the clone.
   • Document Date will reflect the Void Date supplied on this screen (Detail line item dates will be the same as they were on the original document).
   • Description will reflect the value supplied on this screen.
   • Post Date and Fiscal Period will reflect the values supplied on this screen.
   • The Transaction Date for the reversing document's details should be the original line item date.
      

2. Create "Reversing" General Ledger Entries -- Reversing GL entries are only generated when posting to the General Ledger (i.e. Post to General Ledger (unanet.financials.post_to_gl) property enabled and the Post to General Ledger Effective Date (unanet.financials.post_to_gl.eff_date) <= document post date):
     
   • GL transactions will be generated regardless of whether the posting of the original document resulted in GL transactions.
     
   • Summary -- Create reversing general ledger record for the non-zero invoice amount from the Summary
   • • The Summary amount acts as an off-setting value to the Detail amounts.
     • The GL amount recorded will be the value of the Invoice Amount field on the Summary record negated.
     • The AP Org and AP Account from the original Summary will be used without any validations.
     • A positive amount will be recorded as a Credit amount.
     • A negative amount will be recorded as a Debit amount.
         
   • Detail -- Create reversing general ledger records for the non-zero rows in the Detail grid. (Note: For Labor and Item detail lines, if hours (for Labor) or quantity (for Items) is greater than zero, then GL entries will be generated, even if amount is zero.)
   • • The GL amount recorded will be the value of the Amount field negated. For Labor, the hours will also be reversed. For Items, the quantity will also be reversed.
     • The Org and Account from the original Detail will be used without any validations.
     • A positive amount will be recorded as a Debit amount.
     • A negative amount will be recorded as a Credit amount.  

1. • Matched Labor -- Create reversing general ledger records for the matched labor rows.
2. • Voided matched labor will be available for matching on another VI.
   • A positive amount will be recorded as a Credit amount.
   • A negative amount will be recorded as a Debit amount.

1. • Matched Expenses -- Create reversing general ledger records for the matched expense rows.
2. • Voided matched expenses will be available for matching on another VI.
   • A positive amount will be recorded as a Credit amount.
   • A negative amount will be recorded as a Debit amount.

1. • Funding Cap Adjustments -- Create reversing general ledger records for the funding cap adjustments.
2. • The GL amount recorded will be the value of the Amount field negated.
   • A positive amount will be recorded as a Credit amount.
   • A negative amount will be recorded as a Debit amount.

3. Create "Reversing" Project Expense Entries -- Reversing project expense entries are only generated when the document being voided has non-zero Detail rows that include project info. The void process will create reversing project expense transactions that differ form the original transaction only in the sign of the amounts.
   

Validations

• Once you void a document, you cannot 'undo' the void.
• Only POSTED entries can be voided (i.e. INUSE and SUBMITTED items can be further modified, thus no need to void them).
• You can only void an 'original' document that has not previously been voided.  
• You cannot void a voiding document.  
• You cannot void a vendor invoice that references a Closed PO or a Closed PO line (the void icon will not display in this case).

To void a Vendor Invoice, you will need to supply values for the following fields and click on the Void button.

Field Descriptions (click on a link below for additional information):

Closed Fiscal Years