Sage 100

Customer is using Job Cost. They just added Purchase order solely to track outstanding purchase orders issued to subcontractors. It would seem I have two choices to get the costs onto the PO. Miscellaneous Item Miscellaneous Charge I figured it would be a misc charge and the customer could track payments against the PO. Apparently not as even after receiving a partial payment against a PO with only a misc charge it flags the PO as completed and does not provide any indication of what was received other than on the totals page where I can see invoiced to date. Is my only option to go with a miscellaneous item code? It looks like even then I may have to go through a two step ROG followed by ROI The other issue appears to be that the Open Order by Job report does not show if the only think on the PO is a miscellaneous item or miscellaneous code. Have I overlooked something simple here? How are others managing situations where PO use with JC is desired but inventory is not. Customer owns Inventory but is not using.

Looks like the part about partially invoice misc charges resulting in the PO being closed is a bug that was fixed 4.4.0.4 and subsequently rebroken somehow http://infosource.sagesoftwareonline.com/sw_attach/kdb.asp?isresolutionconceptid=531665

Oops - helps if you add a job number to the miscellaneous item. Still doesn't solve my completed PO issue on the miscellaneous charge side.

Seems like I ran into this and when there were partials we did use Misc Items. I think we figured how many partials there would be (like 4 payments) and made the qty 4 and received 1 of them each time.

I'm wondering if I use the until price as $ 1 and the total quantity to be the actual total contract amount. It doesn't seem like such an odd use of PO but there's no apparent easy way to achieve just a straight JC integration to PO when you aren't tracking inventory as well.