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Vendor Change App

User Guide

Overview

Easily manage vendor changes on unposted purchase documents in Business Central without losing line details. This extension preserves line details and custom fields, including dimensions to avoid losing this information and having to re-enter it whenever you change the vendor on Purchase Orders, Purchase Quotes, and Purchase Invoices. Save time with Vendor Change App by 365 Architechs Pty Ltd. 

 

The standard behaviour in Business Central, is that line items are automatically removed when the Vendor is changed on purchase documents resulting in the required re-entry of every line item on the document. 

 

Vendors sometimes need to be changed for many reasons, including errors during processing, when you are no longer able to purchase from that supplier, when a credit limit has been exceeded, or where a better price or more favourable terms is found with another supplier. 

 

Version 1.0.0.0 of this apps supports retention of line items in Purchase Orders, Purchase Invoices and Purchase Quotes. This version of the app works only for line type G/L Account, Fixed Asset & Resource. 

 

Features and Benefits of using this app: 

  • Easily change the vendor number of an existing document 
  • Avoid the effort associated with writing down all the lines of a document, changing the vendor, and then re-entering all the lines 
  • Reduce the risk of a data entry mistake when re-keying the lines on a document where the vendor number has been changed 

This solution will help purchasing officers, accounts payable clerks and anyone who enters or maintains purchase documents in Business Central. 

App Installation

The Vendor Change App can be downloaded for free from AppSource https://appsource.microsoft.com/  

Please see the installation guide here URL 

End User License agreement

Version Details

Version 1.0.0.0 of this apps supports retention of line items in Purchase Orders, Purchase Invoices and Purchase Quotes. The next version will support Purchase Credit Memos and Purchase Return Orders. This version of the app works only for line type G/L Account, Fixed Asset & Resource. 

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User Guide

Step 1. Open an unposted Purchase Document

Vendor Change is available for unposted Purchase OrderPurchase Quote, or Purchase Invoice  

Step 2. Click Change Vendor

This is located on the action menu

Image of the navigation elements needed to change the vendor in Business Central

Step 3. Input New Vendor No.

In the Change Vendor pop-up, type Vendor No. or Vendor Name into the New Vendor No. field. 

Image of the fields that are displayed when you change vendor

Step 4. Click OK

Once the New Vendor No. has been chosen, clicking on the OK button will apply this change. 

Step 5. Process Purchase Document

Once details are verified, continue with normal purchase document processing.