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Construction Purchase Order / Invoicing

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Hello—

I am having a hard time finding a good job set up for our construction division. 

Once we have our numbers for “service work” (not physical qty items), we create a job. 

In a job card, In the job planning lines, the system forced me to put a “qty”. Following cost. 

Let’s say my job planning line is $100 for a painting service. I put in $100 and enter a qty of 1. 

at that time I can create a po for the vendor. 

now the vendor sends me an invoice that’s for partial work.

(we invoice from the po)

Now I need to invoice the po so we can pay the vendor.

But when I go into the po to adjust the direct cost and then invoice, the po closes out because I had to receive and invoice that qty of 1. 

What am I doing wrong? How can I keep the PO open so accounts payable can invoice the remaining amounts when those invoices come in? 

this service work we’re generating pos for does do not have “units of measure”.

we tried receiving the qty by % and that turned out to be a nightmare.

overall, we have service work that totals an amount and the qty part of BC is causing me problems. 

thank you! 

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    Nitin Verma Profile Picture
    21,698 Moderator on at

    Hi,

    During Receive and Invoice PO, PO deleted automatically and send those information after posting to the Posted Purchase Receipts and Posted Purchase Invoice with ref. of the PO, if PO Qty is equal to Qty. to Invoice field.

    Now in your case I think you only want to Invoice and payment without closing the PO, so you can go with the Prepayment invoices so that It allows you to do the partially invoices but not closing the PO, and do the payment posting accordingly.

    Please refer the below link for Prepayment Invoicing functionality.

    docs.microsoft.com/.../finance-invoice-prepayments

    docs.microsoft.com/.../finance-how-to-create-prepayment-invoices

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    YUN ZHU Profile Picture
    95,329 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

    Hi, Is it possible to use the Copy Document feature to create multiple POs?
    For example, at the beginning of $100, you change it to $30 and post it. The second time you use Copy Document to copy the original order or Posted Purchase invoice, change the amount to $20, and post it again.
    But number management will be a bit more complicated.

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    Or you can post with decimals.

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    Hope this helps.

    Thanks.

    ZHU

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