The General Posting Setup does not exist. When using only G/L Accounts

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Posted on by Rafael Ruiz J

Hello,

I am using Business Central without Items, we only use G/L Accounts. So I have no defined Gen. Prod. Posting Groups.

I can enter and post Purchase Invoices using G/L Accounts without problem.

The issue is when I try to Cancel a Purchase Invoice. I am getting the meesage The General Posting Setup does not exist. Identification fields and values: Gen. Bus. Posting Group='ALL', Gen. Prod. Posting Group=''

It looks like the Gen. Product Posting Group is mandatory por Canceling.

Any Idea?

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OussamaSabbouh 6,930 on at

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Hello,

Even if you only use G/L accounts, Cancel Purchase Invoice re-runs full General Posting Setup validation and requires a Gen. Product Posting Group. Posting works without it, but cancellation doesn’t. The fix is to create one dummy Gen. Prod. Posting Group (e.g. GLONLY), set up a matching General Posting Setup for ALL + GLONLY, and assign it to the G/L accounts or vendors. One setup is enough.

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Oussama Sabbouh

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YUN ZHU 96,028 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi, As far as I know, this is standard behavior; please add the following posting settings.

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ZHU

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Khushbu Rajvi. 21,046 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Open general posting setup and check purchase related fields.

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Pallavi Phade 4,450 on at

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Namaste @Rafael Ruiz J

System always run through the gen posting setup for all types ( GLs , Item, Resource, Asset)

You can either configure in GL Account Card which will flow into Lines

or set Gen Posting Setup for blank Posting Groups .

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Pallavi Phade

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Encore Business Sol... 42 on at

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Hi, Rafael,

We actually see this error pretty frequently. The first thing to do is check to see if there are Posting Groups set up in Posting Group Setup, then check to see if General Posting Groups are set up on the G/L Account Card.

The error is saying that General Posting Groups need to be set up, because General Product Posting Group is blank, and it's trying to use a combination that requires the group to have a code.

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RockwithNav 8,705 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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First of all, I appreciate you for posting the question and gathering different viewpoints, because normally people just define this and fix the error without discussion.

The question itself is genuine. When it was originally posted, there was no issue, so it’s fair to ask why it is being questioned during cancellation. However, this is how the routine has been written.

Therefore, we need to define this so that the routine validation is passed and the system can successfully perform the cancellation.

So yes, we do need to define this. :)

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Rafael Ruiz J 28 on at

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Thanks @RockwithNav.

That is exactly my point. I mean, I know how to setup posting groups for items and I understand how to setup G/L Accounts. So, when posting is not necesary to define Gen. Prod. Posting Group.

Now, when I try to cancel the document, I receive an error message. And even assigning the necessary settings to the G/L account doesn't solve the problem because the transaction is already posted with an empty Gen. Prod. Posting Group. :(

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