Purchases & Payables Setup - Copy Vendor Name to Entries - Does NOT work

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Hello all.

When marking the setting "Copy Vendor Name to Entries" in the Purchases & Payables Setup window I am not seeing any difference. My expectation is the vendor name will appear in the GL Ledger entry listing but it does not. I only see the Source Type and Source Number, there is no Source Name field available. The same setting is avaialble for AR and Inventory, but in my testing there is no impact of turning this setting on.

Am I missing something? Should the Source Name field not be available in the GL after turning this on? Is an extnesion still required to add the field?

Looking for some clarity, thank you.

George

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Suresh Kulla 50,237 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Purchases & Payables Setup - Copy Vendor Name to Entries - Does NOT work

That setting will allow you to copy the name to vendor ledger entry not to GL Entries, you have the source no. on GL Entries so you need customization to show the name on the GL Entries.

The setting also will not copy the data to the old entries.

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YUN ZHU 93,438 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Purchases & Payables Setup - Copy Vendor Name to Entries - Does NOT work

Hi, suresh is right, this is mentioned in the tooltip of the field.

In addition, I have briefly discussed this question before, and I hope the information below can give you some hints.

More details:

Dynamics 365 Business Central: Display Customer Name and Vendor Name (Source Name) in General Ledger Entries

https://yzhums.com/13226/

Thanks

ZHU

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Jainam M. Kothari 12,148 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Purchases & Payables Setup - Copy Vendor Name to Entries - Does NOT work

Hello,

Yes it is Applicable in case of Vendor Ledger Entries and Not for General Ledger Entries.

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George S. 43 on at

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Purchases & Payables Setup - Copy Vendor Name to Entries - Does NOT work

Thanks guys.

I seem to have had tunnel vision and was seeing what I wanted to see rather than what was clearly outlined in the the setting description. Having said that in my humble opinion presenting the vendor name at the GL level should be out of the box and not require any sort of customization regardless of the complexity.

Thanks again for the clarification!

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