RE: Un-apply a payable Document
Hi
Just to add to this the reason "why" you can do it in receivables but not in payables.
In receivables, you receive the money in and can apply it however you like. You may need to reallocate if you applied it incorrectly and you can do this up until you run the Paid Transaction Removal. Once that is done, you will need to use the Professional Services Tools to bring back from history and reallocate.
This is because you are not in control of what was paid and there is no way for you to defraud your company by misapplying a cash receipt.
On the payables side, as soon as a payment or credit is applied to an invoice, it moves to history once you close the apply screen or post the batch. This is essentially because someone authorised a payment to pay that invoice.
If they system allowed you to reallocate in Payables in the same way as Receivables, it opens the organisation up to fraud. E.g. I get an invoice approved for payment, after approval, replace it with a different one and submit that one again.
(A simple example, full of holes I know).
So essentially it is about helping assist businesses with preventing fraudulent activity.
It doesn't help things when you genuinely make a mistake and have to jump through hoops to void transactions and re-enter. But it does leave an audit trail of the changes that are much easier to follow.
Cheers
Heather