In December, we've migrated from GP 8.0 to 12.0.031570 and there are a few things that seem very different.
One of the biggest things is we can't seem to overwrite the GL while receiving or processing invoices against a PO. We have to do additional lines to properly code the items, as the employee's placing the PO don't necessarily know which GL, so the GL that will be in the system when receiving against, can't be overwritten.
Example:
00-00-1200 Purch $204.00 (debit)
00-00-200 Pay $204.00 (Credit)
42-20-5520 Misc $204.00 (debit)
00-00-1200 Misc $204.00 (credit)
The above example is how we've been told by our Certified Partner as to how to correct the GL's, but in 8.0, this could be overwritten where the debit for 00-00-1200 could have been changed on that line to 42-20-5520 (typed over), causing it to only be the 2nd and 3rd lines from above. Instead, that line is currently locked and the Certified Partner says it can't be unlocked to make it so it was like how 8.0 was. Are they correct, or is there a way that they're unaware of that someone could show us how to do? All these extra GL entries are taking up time and space.
The other item that we've never been shown how to do through the certified partners used through the years is deposits against PO's. An example would be Vendor ABC we issue a PO to for $40,000.00. They come back and say they would like a 50% deposit, so we need to cut a check for $20,000.00 to ABC, which should go against the PO. The only way that we've been able to do this is a very not accounting friendly version of issuing the check through a Payables Batch Entry, then try to remember when we receive the invoice from the vendor that we've already made a deposit (as some vendors do not reflect the deposits on their invoice). If the Accounts Payable person gets hit by the proverbial bus, we should be able to see that there was a deposit check issued against a PO (without receiving against the PO) in the system without having to make 100% sure we understand whether or not a deposit was issued to a vendor. Is the software setup to do this and if so, how?
Thank You