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Cannot settle open invoices in foreign currencies.

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Hello, let me explain how this issue is occurring.

We are a Canadian company and we buy/sell to the USA sometimes. When we buy from them the invoice is posted in USD. I was told that when we pay these invoices to wait for them to clear the bank and then settle the payment through Payment journal and change currency to CDN and adjust the settlement amount to the amount that came out of our bank account, so that it will reconcile with the bank.

The problem when I do it this way is when our Exchange Rate in AX is higher than the exchange rate the bank used. It will pay the amount specified, but because the exchange rate in AX is higher the system thinks that we under paid on our invoice.


For example: We have 1 invoice that we owed $239.40 USD, when the payment processed it was $314.18 CDN, which is roughly 1.3124 Exchange Rate CDN to USD.

The exchange rate in our system was set higher, to 1.3806. So when I paid this, the system says we owe $330.52 CDN, an additional $16.34, which is the difference in exchange rates. And now it shows $16.34 in "Amount not settled" and this invoice is still sitting as open.

How can I fix this invoice so that it no longer shows as "Open", and what are some practices that are used to in AX that can prevent this from happening.

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  • Ludwig Reinhard Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    Hello JordanH,

    If the exchange rate that the bank uses is different from the one that AX suggests to be used, you can overwrite the AX rate with the one that your bank uses.

    This can be done in the payment journal. In the general tab you should be able to see the currency field (CDN) and the system exchange rate in the field below.

    You can simply overwrite this rate with the banks rate and post the journal.

    As usual, if you have not done this before, test it once in a demo environment to be sure that you get the result you expect.

    Best regards,

    Ludwig

  • JordanH Profile Picture
    126 on at

    Thank you, this helps a lot. I have tested and it works great.

    For the remaining open transactions I will have to reverse the payment and re-do it using this method.

    Thanks so much,

    JordanH

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