Inactive AR

[Derek Atkins]

Terence <winenvine at gmail.com> writes:

> On Friday, September 07, 2012 07:35 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Terence <winenvine at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> Sometimes I have to make some invoices inactive, but what I have found
>>> is those inactive invoices still appear in the AR ageing report.
>>> Is there a way to really delete them?  Thanks.
>> Inactive means they wont show up in searches.  Once you post it there is
>> no reason to make it inactive.
>>
>> If they are POSTED then they are real transactions and will definitely
>> show up in reports like the Aging report.  To stop that you would need
>> to unpost the invoice, making it "unreal".
>>
>> I guess the question is what are you trying to accomplish by making the
>> invoice "inactive"?  What were you expecting that checkbox to do for
>> you?
>>
> I did exactly that by unposting and putting an invoice inactive. But
> when I ran a AR ageing report, there are still AR being inactive
> showing in the report.

Again, Inactive has nothing to do with reports.  Inactive ONLY affects
whether the invoice will show up when you search for it using Business
-> Invoice -> Find.

If an invoice is showing in an AR aging report then that means the
invoice is still on the books.  It means you did NOT unpost it.

> T Wong

-derek

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