Posting a Duty/Freight Invoice from Purchase

When you purchase products they may be accompanied by an invoice for freight from the company that delivered the products and from Customs and Excise for the import of the products and any VAT that you have to pay. Use Duty/freight invoice to enter this in the program.

How to post a duty/freight invoice

  1. From the purchase module click Post Purchase invoice.
  2. Select Duty/Freight invoice as the Invoice type.
  3. Select Supplier no.
  4. Click [...] to display the List of suppliers.
  5. Enter the Invoice no.
  6. Check that the Invoice date and Due date agrees with the supplier’s invoice date.
  7. Check Supplier payments and Currency against the settings for the supplier.
  8. Enter the supplier’s invoice amount for Freight/shipping, Handling, Special duty, Duty, Import VAT, and Other if necessary.
  9. To manually adjust the VAT, click on the Adjust VAT button at the base of the window, a window will open where you can enter the Corrected VAT in the corresponding column. Click OK to confirm these changes or Cancel to discard them. Read more in Manual VAT adjustment during the booking of a purchase.
  10. Register any Rounding.
  11. Click Invoice.
  12. The Purchase order is registered and has been assigned a journal number, e.g. PI1, and is transferred to the Nominal Ledger. On the purchase order the Entered column is updated with the posted items. The purchase order’s status is Received.

Click Process complete if you want to change the status of the purchase order. It is still not locked so you can still register more products if necessary.

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Purchase Orders

Posting Purchases

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