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== Summary ==
This article explains the purpose of Sales and Purchase centres.

== More Information ==
Invoices and Credit Notes from both the {{SL}} and {{PL}} cannot be posted directly to nominal codes in Platinum - they have to go through an intermediate stage of analysis which is where the Sales and Purchase Centres come in.

There are a couple of good reasons to have this intermediate stage of analysis.

Firstly, Sales and Purchase Centres are designed to allow you to analyse invoices and credit notes in more detail than you might want on your management accounts. Management accounts are derived from [[What is a Nominal Code?|nominal codes]].

{{Example|text=You might want to analyse motor vehicle costs for each vehicle. On your management accounts, it gets unwieldy to see the costs against every vehicle, and a summary nominal code is all that is really needed. You can have purchase centres for each vehicle and analyse the costs in the {{PL}}, but have all these Purchase Centres updating one nominal code.}}

Secondly, if you are running a multi-site operation, your operational staff only need to be aware of the Sales and Purchase centres for analysis. The site modifier will take care of the appropriate nominal code.

In many circumstances with a single site, you will find that you will need a one-to-one relationship of Sales or Purchase Centres to Nominal Codes, since the same level of detail is often required at both levels. In a multi-site operation, you will have a one-to-many relationship, where one Sales or Purchase Centre will update more than one Nominal Code because of the site modifier.

== See also ==
* [[How do I Find a Centre?]]
* [[How do I Create a Sales or Purchase Centre?]]
* [[How do I Print a List of Purchase Centres?]]
* [[How do I Print a List of Sales Centres?]]
* [[Posting Purchase Invoices]]

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