How do I add costs to a contract?

Summary

This article will explain how to post a purchase invoice to and automatically assign this to a contract.

You can only do this if the " Contract Costings Settings Links Purchase Ledger" is set to 'Y'

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More Information

Invoices or Credit Notes related to Contracts are posted in " Purchase Ledger Purchase Ledger Postings". For help with this, see here.

Create the document that you require and once you have accepted the document, you will see the "Purchase ledger Link - CC" screen.

• Enter the 'Contract number' to which this document relates.
• Press <Enter> until you get to category and enter the category of the invoice you have posted eg 'MAT' for "Material".
• Press <Enter> until you get to quantity and enter the quantity.
• Press <Enter> and then put in the Nett amount.
• Press <Enter> and then if you are happy with the posting <Esc> or change the "Accept or Ignore" to 'N' and the amount will not be allocated.

the invoice you have posted may be for more than one category of cost so you can keep going through this until you have allocated the whole invoice or leave an amount un-allocated if the needed.

Once you have finished allocating amounts you can <Esc> twice to exit the process

See also

Posting Purchase Invoices

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