Use this window to define default settings for document types in SAP Business One. On the General tab, you define settings for sales and purchasing documents.
To access the tab, choose
.Select the Calculate Gross Profit checkbox to activate gross profit calculation in sales documents of both item and service types. |
Appears only when the Calculate Gross Profit checkbox is selected. Select from the list menu the origin for the base price to be used by SAP Business One for calculating gross profit in sales documents of item type:
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This field appears only when the Calculate Gross Price checkbox is selected. Enter the gross profit percentage rate to be used by default for calculating gross profit in sales documents of service type. |
This field appears only when the Calculate Gross Profit checkbox is selected. Define whether to calculate the gross profit percentage as the base price or the sales price. Example You have an item with a base price of $30 and a sales price of $40.
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Select whether the remarks on the marketing documents include the base document number, or the customer or vendor reference number. When you enter a sales document with a reference to a base document, the number of the base document appears. The displayed number can either be an internal number assigned to the document by SAP Business One, or the customer/vendor reference number from the base document. When you choose to display the customer/vendor reference number and no such number is entered in the base document, the relevant field remains blank in the document that is created with reference to the base document. |
Select the Price and Total for Parent Items Only if you only want to display the total price for the sold product. Select the Price for Components if you want to display the prices of the components. In this case, the total price is calculated as the total of the component prices. If a sales bill of materials is defined for a product, this BOM appears in the sales document. The sales document displays both the sold product and the components that contribute to this product. When you select this radio button, you determine whether the sales price of the item should be displayed at the level of the sold product or at the level of the components in the sales document. |
Define the system response when the inventory level of an item falls below the minimum quantity as the result of a sales document/goods issue, or exceeds the maximum quantity as the results of a goods receipt. Note The minimum and maximum inventory levels are defined in the Item Master Data window, on the Inventory Data tab. If you do not define a minimum inventory level for an item, SAP Business One treats the item as if its minimum inventory level were zero. If you do not define a maximum inventory level for an item, SAP Business One does not validate the maximum level on quantities of goods received. End of the note. Select one of the following options:
The selected response is triggered when one of the following occurs:
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Select to block documents that would cause the level of inventory to fall below zero. Deselect the checkbox to allow negative inventory. If you deselect the checkbox, the following message appears: Negative inventory usage is not in accordance with accounting rules. Are you sure you want to enable negative inventory usage? When you select the Block Negative Inventory By checkbox, you have the following 3 options for defining negative inventory in SAP Business One:
When you deselect the Block Negative Inventory By checkbox, you allow negative inventory in your company. Each item can contain negative inventory at company or warehouse level. Only the option selected according to the document setting Response to Release/Receipt of Inventory Outside Defined Range applies to the defined minimum stock level for the item. |
Select whether the amounts and prices that appear in marketing documents should be rounded by currency or by document. |
Chooses the date on which the system calculates the exchange rate:
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Select to determine whether a remark will be displayed in the Remarks field of the sales document when an amount has been rounded. If you select the checkbox, a remark in a foreign-currency invoice for a customer is displayed stating that the discount amount is different from the discount percentage due to rounding. |
Select if you want the Ship To address of the purchase document (Logistics tab) to be the warehouse address. If this checkbox is deselected, the Ship To address will be the address of the company as defined in tab. |
Select to add a Freight field in all sales and purchasing documents. This field lets you calculate additional costs connected to a document, such as delivery charges and deposit tax. |
Enables blocking the posting process of documents that automatically create accounting journal entries (invoice, credit memo, deposit, payment and inventory posting documents). Note When this checkbox is selected, the corresponding checkbox on the Per Document tab is automatically selected for all relevant document types. You can deselect this checkbox for a specific document type, if required End of the note. |
Select to be able to create documents with future posting dates. Companies can create documents with future posting dates at the company level and then decide whether to apply this option to all the documents or only to those selected. |
Select this checkbox to report cancelled and cancellation marketing documents. However, some reports are not affected by the setting of this checkbox. For more information, see Reporting for Canceled and Cancellation Documents. |
Specify the time range within which you are allowed to cancel a marketing document with a cancellation document. If your company allows future posting, you may be able to cancel a document on a date that is earlier than the posting date. Note This field is irrelevant to cancellation of orders, quotations, or purchase requests. For more information, see Canceling Sales and Purchasing Documents. End of the note. Example The posting date of a delivery is August 1, 2012. The following table displays when you can cancel this delivery, depending on the value you enter in the Max. No. of Days for Canceling Marketing Documents Before or After Posting field:
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Select this checkbox to assign the nota fiscal numbers of canceled documents to new documents. For more information, see Reusing Nota Fiscal Numbers (BR). |
Select to allow negative tax amount in rows. |
Select to display a warning when adding documents whose total amount is over 1,500 EUR and for which you have not defined the CIG and CUP codes. It is unselected by default. |
Specify the default rounding rule for tax and withholding tax. |
Select this checkbox to assign the document numbers of canceled documents and cancellation documents to new documents. For more information, see Reusing Document Numbers (RU). |