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A few questions about sales orders

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Hello there,

I have some questions regarding sales orders, that maybe someone here is capable of answering?

Use Case:

We are delivering human services (say HelpDesk hours for our customer). The customer orders 120 hours over 12 months. So, each month we invoice 10 hours

Question1: How to handle multiple delivery dates?

  • For legal reasons, the delivery date is important
  • When I invoiced the first delivery, the status proceeded to approve
  • This locks the delivery date. Does that mean every month when I want to invoice, I have to set the status back to open, change the delivery date and then invoice? Is there any better way?

Questions2: How to not automatically close sales order after they are fulfilled

  • The actual hours that we deliver might wary while on the project
  • The sales quote is closing automatically after it is fulfilled. 
  • Now the sales order closed, but there might still be some hours demanded by the customer, how to handle this?

Questions 3: Cancellation of the sales invoice, how to add the cancelled volume back to the sales order

  • Sales Order → Invoice → Customer pays
  • Now we want to cancel the invoice
  • Now the Sales Order shows 10 delivered hours, even though they are cancelled.
  • How do I restore them to the sales order, so it is the volume it was before the cancellation

Thanks a lot for your help!

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    Amit Profile Picture
    2,559 on at

    Hi,

    Ans 1: You can manage delivery date in Sales Line

    Ans 2: When Sales Order fully poste, system auto delete the Sales Order. If you want Sales Order History, then use Sales Archive feature

    Ans 3: Refer the below link for cancellation and make replica of sales order again.

    https://erpconsultors.com/correct-or-cancel-a-posted-sales-invoice-in-d365/

    Regards

    Amit Sharma

    www.erpconsultors.com

  • fvl92 Profile Picture
    40 on at

    Hello Amit! Thank you kindly for your answers. Could you please elaborate on Ans1: Where can I set the delivery date?

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    Dallefeld Profile Picture
    211 User Group Leader on at

    You might want to consider using Jobs. Setup your 12 monthly billings with the desired planning date. You can record time to the job either for budget comparison or for billing. No need to worry about sales orders and quotes closing unexpectedly. You us the Job Process to Create Invoices.

    I bill hours and this is what I use...Jobs in Business Central.

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    YUN ZHU Profile Picture
    95,729 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

    Hi, hope the following helps as well.

    Regarding question 1, you can try to use Warehouse Shipments. This way you can split shipments without affecting the order.

    More details: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/warehouse-how-ship-items#ship-items-with-a-warehouse-shipment

    Regarding question 2, you can try posting on Sales Invoice instead of directly posting on Sales Order.

    More details: How to keep Orders after completely invoiced

    https://yzhums.com/14923/

    Thanks.

    ZHU

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