Discounts Tab

The Discounts tab on the AP Payment Control Detail form.

Use the Discounts tab of AP Payment Control Detail to change an invoice's total discount offered and or discount taken amounts. When you change a discount amount, the new amount is distributed proportionately to all lines on the transaction, based on each line's gross amount. You can also use this feature to change both the discount offered and discount taken amounts to zero.

The system only enables the fields on this tab if you have unchecked the Post Discounts Offered to GL and Net Amounts to Subledgers box in AP Company Parameters (Pay Types/Discounts/ICR tab).

The following instructions detail how to change the discount for an invoice/transaction.

  1. If you want to change the discount amount, check the Select Discount Amount box. The system enables the Discount Amt field. Enter the amount in the Discount Amt field.

  2. If you want to change the discount percentage, check the Select Discount Percentage box. The system enables the Discount % field. Enter the percentage in the Discount % field.

  3. Check the Change Discount Offered box to change the discount offered amount by the amount or percentage that you specified.

  4. Check the Change Discount Taken box to change the discount taken amount by the amount or percentage that you specified.

  5. Click Update.The system distributes the new amount proportionately to all invoice lines, based on each line's gross amount.