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How to utilize revenue deferrals generically?

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Hello,

I'm trying to utilize revenue deferral and followed this guide here: How to set up and use Deferral in Business Central (alexandrahorbatenko.blogspot.com) and Microsoft's as well. However I'm running into a problem where it seems that I have to assign a deferral period to each item individually before revenue deferral can be utilized in the sales invoice? But I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding how this works or what, because that sounds like a lot of templates to create.

For example, there is a product or service to be sold and it can be deferred for 3, 6, 12 months. Does that mean I have to create a 2,6,12 month deferral template? Okay, so let's say I do that and then go into items and assign that template to that one item. Now there's another product that can be deferred for 2,6,12,36,72 months. Do I have to create 3 more deferral templates and then go into items and assign those to that one item? 

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    IB-29041624-0 Profile Picture
    1,191 Moderator on at

    As long as you have the deferral running for the same period length you only need to have one template per. period length.

    So if you create for all the variants of period length those can be reused for all the different items / sales lines.

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    Dallefeld Profile Picture
    235 User Group Leader on at

    You will need deferral templates for 2, 3, 6, 12, 36 and 72 months. You can use any of these for any item.

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    145 on at

    I created the deferral templates, but when I go to create a sales invoice and add an item, the "Deferral code" column does not show up on the sales invoice page for me to select the terms.

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    IB-29041624-0 Profile Picture
    1,191 Moderator on at

    The field is on sales line level. If it is now showing in your page go to personalize to make it visible.

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    XeXE Profile Picture
    145 on at

    That's such a horrible place to put such an important field, haha. Thanks Inge!

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