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Accounts for Automatic transactions

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Posted on by Bharath jain 1,443 Super User 2025 Season 2

Hi,

I want to understand what is the purpose of "Accounts for Automatic transaction". 

In My scenario I have setup cash discounts for Vendor from payment setup and assigned main accounts. I have not created anything in "Accounts for automatic transactions".

Now i have posted an invoice and even made a payment. As per setup cash discount is applied and posted.

So in this scenario how does "Accounts for automatic transaction" works.

Payment - cash discount

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Accounts for automatic transaction

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Posted transaction

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    saurabh bharti Profile Picture
    saurabh bharti 15,039 Moderator on at

    This in case you are using penne difference, rounding issue etc..

    E.g. Invoice amount -= 100, Payment = 99

    now you want to settle these two transactions completely.

    You can enable over/under payment in AP/AR parameters and specify that difference will go to cash discount.

    In this case while settling 1 USD will be posted to account for automatic transaction > cash discount account

    In your scenario above you already have payment setup defined for cash discount

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    MM-20051452-0 Profile Picture
    MM-20051452-0 on at

    Hi Bharath,

    Here is MS official documentation regarding "Accounts for automatic transactions" where illustrating the exact purpose.

    docs.microsoft.com/.../10-auto-transact

    "The modules in Finance are highly integrated, so many postings are handled automatically. There are times when a transaction is posted but there is no ledger account defined for that transaction.

    For example, when an invoice is posted and a discount is given, this amount is posted automatically to an account for discounts. The appropriate account for that kind of posting must be set up, through system accounts. It could be a penny difference, an error account, or a cash discount.

    You can specify accounts for automatic transactions such as rounding differences, retained earnings, and discounts."

    Please let me know if further information is required.

    Regards,

    Momen Mansour

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