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Calling any Job Cost gurus - Is there a flag to set for retention to appear? I have a JC client wanting to start using that functionality. Does anyone have a 50 word or less overview handy or can point me in the direction? Is it streamline (i.e. start in JC maintenance setting up the job) or do you manually process at the vouchering step? TIA in advance.

@BarbRippberger?

Not really an overview but... http://infosource.sagesoftwareonline.com/sw_attach/kdb.asp?isresolutionconceptid=406144

Looking for retention in AP, link is for AR.....

How about this then?

That's about as good a recap as any. I have very few client's using AP retention, but I think basically you want to enter a rate in vendor maintenance where applicable and it will automatically calculate the retention amount when you enter an invoice for this vendor, but only if you select a subcontract cost type. As the pdf states, you can manually override the amount or zero it out during data entry. The retention rate and amont will be in the secondary grid, so they may want to move them to primary if they'd be adjusting retention amounts much. Let me know if you need more info or have any other specific questions Jeff.

I never did have any doing AP retention.

Ick.

Kathryn - Positive comments only .... please!!!!!! JK'g...

Ok, gurus (guras?), Does retention appear in PO ROG or PO ROI? I'm not seeing it in the EEC company (but then, THAT data is 10 years old now). Or does retention only appear if the job (or codes) have been predefined to allow it? In AP voucher entry, the retention fields display before the job number is entered. Not in the PO voucher side of things. Is this another v1.0 feature that has never been enhanced?

@JeffSchwenk - My recollection on the payables side is that retention was not available when receiving invoices via PO (unless added in last year). Oddly, I recall you can go do an Adjust to the invoice, via AP Invoice entry after the fact to add the retention so that when paying the invoice it will withhold the retention amount from the check. Crazy, eh?

Crazy???? But then we are talking about Sage. More sad than crazy.

Yep, I had to test this to be sure, but I think that Mike is right. No option for retention in PO receipts. Even if you set up the subcontractor with a retention rate in the job it will not reflect any retention in AP. I'm not sure about the AP adjustment after the fact, but that's good to know. And yes, crazy!

Wow, maybe if I wanted to be diligent, I would write this up for the Idea website. Naw, it is more fun (and productive) just to bang my head against the wall. I can call the resulting Rorschach image of the blood splatters a self portrait of a Sage encounter of another kind.....