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Wednesday 21 August 2013

Payment (Settlement) Discount - VAT Calculation

Scenario: Posting a purchase invoice from a supplier say for £1000, the supplier also offers 2% payment discount if the payment is made within 8 days, the actual supplier invoice assume the lower VAT amount.
Note: VAT legislation in the UK states to always assume the lower vat amount i.e. £171.50 (even if you do not take the payment discount)
 
Without Discount
With Discount
Amount
£  1000.00
£  980.00
VAT Amount
£  171.50
£  171.50
Total Amount
£  1,171.50
£  1,151.50
 
Following three steps involved in setting up NAV to accommodate above scenario.
1)     General Ledger Setup
2)    Payment Terms Setup
3)    Customer Card Setup or Payment Discount % in Invoice Page.
General Ledger Setup
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Pmt. Disc. Excl. VAT: Place a check mark in this check box; so that the payment discount is calculated on amounts excluding VAT.
VAT Tolerance %: The value in this field needs to be at least as high as the maximum settlement discount % you will be offered (purchase order processing) and offering (sales order processing).
 
Payment Terms Setup
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Discount Date Calculation: If you enter a date formula here, the program will automatically calculate a payment discount date when an invoice is created. The date indicates the deadline for receiving a payment discount.
Discount %: Here you can enter the percentage of the invoice amount. The program will automatically calculate a possible payment discount when you post an invoice. If payment occurs on or before the payment discount date, the program will apply the payment discount when you post the payment of the invoice.
 
Customer Card Setup or Payment Discount % in Invoice Page.
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You could select a payment terms code with Discount % against the vendor card. The program will automatically calculate a possible payment discount when you post an invoice.
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You could also manually enter Payment Discount % in the purchase invoice without being predefined under Payment Terms Setup.
 
Example: Below screenshots illustrates above scenario with the relevant settings in place.
·         Purchase Invoice
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·         Statistics
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·         Posted the purchase invoice.
·        Document Date: 27/01/2011 | Pmt. Discount Date: 04/02/2011; in line with payment terms.
·         Payment is made on 07/02/2011 (Outside discount tolerance)
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·         Posted payment journal.
·         Vendor Ledger Entries
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As you could see from above, with the right settings in place, NAV does consider lower VAT amount automatically.
 

Thursday 1 August 2013

Error:"There is no Currency Exchange Rate within the filter. Filters: Currency Code: XXX, Starting Date: ".." "

 

Issue: Unable to view statistics or print the PO: POXXXXX due to following error message

"There is no Currency Exchange Rate within the filter.

Filters: Currency Code: XXX, Starting Date: ".." "

Solution: Issue was due to the fact that the Posting/Tax Point Date is blank. So, issue can be resolved by putting a date in this field and this is because without a date in this field NAV does not know which Exchange Rate to consider.

Thursday 4 July 2013

Error: The Item XXXXX cannot be revalued because there is at least one open Outbound Item Ledger Entry.


Solution: Outbound Item Ledger Entry means Sales Shipment, Negative Adjustment and Purchase Return Receipt entries.

So from the error message we can understand that, there are open negative entries that needs to be closed using Application Worksheet or post positive adjustment using item journal to close the –ve entry.

Thursday 27 June 2013

How To: Monitor SMTP sent emails?

Step1: Login to the server that houses SMTP Server. If unsure of the server name, look under NAV: Administration -> IT Administration -> General Setup -> SMTP Mail Setup

Step2: All Programs -> Microsoft Exchange Server -> Exchange Management Console

Step3: Toolbox -> Message Tracking. Microsoft Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant window opens up

Step4: Under Welcome section define following fields Recipients, Start and End. Finally, click ‘Next’ to initiate search function.

Wednesday 26 June 2013

Error: Gen. Posting Type must not be in Gen. Journal Line: Journal Template Name=GENERAL, Journal Batch Name=GLJNL – EW, Line No.=10000

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Error: Gen. Posting Type must not be in Gen. Journal Line: Journal Template Name=GENERAL, Journal Batch Name=GLJNL – EW, Line No.=10000

Solution: If you want to post a journal line that does not involve VAT.

Then ensure following columns are blank - ‘Gen. Posting Type Field’, ‘VAT Bus. Posting Group’, ‘VAT Prod. Posting Group’, ‘VAT Amount’, ‘VAT Difference’, ‘Bal. VAT Bus. Posting Group’, ‘Bal. VAT Prod. Posting Group’, ‘Bal. VAT Amount’ and ‘Bal. VAT Difference’.

Thursday 6 June 2013

Error: “The VAT Posting Setup does not exist. Identification fields and values: VAT Bus. Posting Group=’’, VAT Prod. Posting Group=’’”

image Reason:
This error message occurs if:
"Gen. Bus. Posting Group", "Gen. Prod. Posting Group", "VAT Bus. Posting Group", "VAT Prod. Posting Group", "Bal. Gen. Bus. Posting Group", "Bal. Gen. Prod. Posting Group", "Bal. VAT Bus. Posting Group" and "Bal. VAT Prod. Posting Group" fields are blank, but the "Gen. Posting Type"  and/or "Bal. Gen. Posting Type" field has a value.


The program considers that you want to post additional sales or purchases entries.So, NAV is looking for relevant VAT Posting Setup
SOLUTION: In order to avoid this error messages, you have to ensure the following fields in the journal lines are blank: "Gen. Bus. Posting Group", "Gen. Prod. Posting Group", "VAT Bus. Posting Group", "VAT Prod. Posting Group", "Bal. Gen. Bus. Posting Group", "Bal. Gen. Prod. Posting Group", "Bal. VAT Bus. Posting Group" and "Bal. VAT Prod. Posting Group", "Gen. Posting Type"  and "Bal. Gen. Posting Type"