Match Vendor Invoices

With this option you may partially or fully match a buyline on an invoice, or unapprove an item to set up a discrepancy, or use varied for the final bill in a series of partial matching of a multi-month insertion. Multi-office agencies that are required to separate accounting duties among staff due to Sarbanes-Oxley federal regulations, may authorize a user to either Match Vendor Invoices or Clear Matched Invoices.

Basic Steps to Match an Invoice

  1. Select Clearances|Match Vendor Invoices.

Match Vendor Invoice Prompt

  1. Key the required fields marked with the @ symbol on the Prompt window. For a new invoice, also key the Start/End Dates, Invoice Number, and (Invoice) Date. Other fields are optional.

  2. When retrieving existing invoices for an adjustment, key only the required fields, using the lookup for the Invoice Number, if needed.

  3. Click the Next icon.

Detailed Matching Window (See also Match Vend Inv Fields and the Matching Types chart.)

Match Vendor Invoice Detail Window

Assign a Rep to Buyline

To assign a Rep code to one or many of these buylines:

  1. Click the Sel checkbox for each buyline that should be assigned a rep.

  2. Click <Apply Rep Code> button to display a popup window where you key or lookup the Rep Code to apply.

  3. Click the Save icon to add the Rep code to all selected buylines.

If all buylines are grayed out:

If some buylines are grayed out:

Matching on the Detail Window

  1. To fully match buy units to the invoice you defined on the Prompt window, click to select Approved from the Status dropdown. Do not fill in the other fields. To partially match a buyline, see the next set of steps.

  2. You may also choose Varied (for final matching a variance for write off), unapproved, and the blank.

  3. To view the payment address/payee, hold the cursor over the gray area in the Override Address to: column for that item. The payment address is initially retrieved from Common Vendor: the applicable Alternate Address for Use P (Payment) is retrieved, if defined; otherwise the vendor's main address is retrieved.

  4. To override the retrieved payment address to the vendor's main payment address, select Y from the Override Address to: Main drop down list.

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To override the payment address to a rep address defined in Rep Definition, key the rep code in the Override Address to: Rep text box.

  1. The CD (cash discount) indicator column displays after the Actual Cost column. If the cash discount differs between the invoice and buy, select Y or N from the drop down list in the second CD column to indicate whether the cash discount applies to this insertion and to print the insertion on the Invoice Matching Report.

  2. Click Save icon.

To Match All Invoices Quickly

  1. To match all invoices quickly, click the green check Select All icon then click <Set Status> button.

  2. Choose the status for all selected invoices.

  3. Click Save icon.

Partial Matching for a Buyline

  1. To partially match a buyline, fill in the Matched Amount field and any other field that applies.

  2. If you import interactive buylines from a 3rd party vendor, many of the other fields may be filled in by the import.  Edit as needed.

  3. If you vary costs/amounts in the fields, click Recalculate icon recalcul.gif on the icon bar at the top of the window to have the buyline record display correctly.

  4. Click the Save icon.

Matching Deleted Buylines

Adding a Comment for the Invoice header.

  1. Click the Comment icon on the icon bar above the columns fields.

  2. Specify whether the comment should be directed to R the Remittance or E Estimator's Discrepancy Report.

  3. Click Save icon.

Next Step:  Clearing Matched Invoices

Once the buylines on a vendor invoice are all matched, partially matched, unapproved, or had a variance process in this option, request Clear Matched Invoices to clear these items.