Accounts Payable - Change Vendor on Invoice

[wmorgenstern]

I am not sure if I am the only experience this problem.
When I create a invoice, I use Vendor1.
But then after saving it, I notice that I used the wrong vendor. So I change the Vendor ID to vendor2, however the name to whom the check will be made out to (when printed) still is the one for vendor1.
And also the vendor address will be wrong.

Is this a bug, or a feature?
Basically, it would be nice when changing a vendor id, that all the details related to that invoice also change.

Werner Morgenstern

[Zaphod]

I've written this up for Program Development to investigate. I was able to recreate this issue. I can't really speak to the "bug or feature" question, but it doesn't seem right.

Thanks!

[Jeff]

This is really how it was designed to work. Here is the reasoning: When changing the vendor id on the invoice, it looks to see if the invoice description field is empty, if it is, the vendor name is inserted as the description for the invoice. The reason we don't change the invoice description if there is a value there already is that you could have changed it to something different and you would have been mad at us for blindly overwritting your description.

When you printed the check the vendor2 name and address will print on the check face. It is just the description of the invoice that is not changing to the updated vendor.

We just made a change to the routine to make it a little smarter. Now it will now look at the invoice description and if it matches the original vendor name, we will change the invoice description to the new vendor name.