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Linking Vendor Bills and Work Order Items

Last post 12-10-2013 9:40 AM by issam. 4 replies.
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  • 12-05-2013 2:39 PM

    • issam
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    Linking Vendor Bills and Work Order Items

    Hello,

    I'm new to the Method community and I'm trying to do the following :

    I want to have a screen where I can input a vendor invoice. This invoice will then flow into QBO as a vendor Bill and The items on it will be linked to a Work Order. So that when I pull up that Work Order I'll find the items in the Materials list.

    I'm trying to accomplish this using the following tables:

    -the "Bill" table.

    -the "BillLineItem" table.

    I added a dropdown field for the "Activity" table on the "Bill" table to link the WO to a Bill.

    My questions are:

    1-Why is the "BillLineItem" table only visible while customizing a screen? it does not show up on the tables list, nor on the list of tables in the report designer.

    2-How can I link the Items to :

      a. the Work Order.

      b. the Vender Bill.

    I just need some pointing in the right direction : ) . I apreciate your help.


    Thank You!


  • 12-09-2013 6:56 AM In reply to

    Re: Linking Vendor Bills and Work Order Items

    Hi Issam,

    My apologies for the late reply. Unfortunately you won't be able to link Work Orders to Vendor Bills since Vendor bills do not sync to QBO. This is why the Bill screen is hidden on a new Method for QBO account and also why you can't find the BillLineItem table in the tables list. 

    There have been some updates to the Inuit API, so I can check to see whether this can or will be updated in the future..

    Can you tell me why you will be invoicing your Vendors? What you are looking to do can be achieved with Customers and invoices.  Could you create Customer records for the Vendors you'll be invoicing?

    - Adam

    Adam Lyons
    Manager of Support
    Method Integration
    a.lyons@method.me
  • 12-09-2013 7:41 AM In reply to

    • issam
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    Re: Linking Vendor Bills and Work Order Items

    Hi Adam,

    Thank you for your response.

    How do I create customer records for the vendors?

    Thank you,

  • 12-09-2013 10:32 AM In reply to

    Re: Linking Vendor Bills and Work Order Items

    Issam,

    You will need to create a new customer that represents the vendor. In Method, you can do this by going to Customers > Customers and Contacts List and clicking New Customer.

    - Adam

    Adam Lyons
    Manager of Support
    Method Integration
    a.lyons@method.me
  • 12-10-2013 9:40 AM In reply to

    • issam
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    Re: Linking Vendor Bills and Work Order Items

    Hi Adam,

    Any updates on weather Bills can be posted to QBO with the new intuit API?

    Thank you,

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