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When master contracts are used with billing control, the maintenance contracts assigned to the master contract all will print on one invoice. If maintenance contracts are not attached to a master contract that controls billing, these invoices will print as they always haveseparately.
Maintenance contracts appear on the master contract invoice beginning on their start dates.
The division selected for each maintenance contract in the Maintenance Contract window determines which accounts are posted to when the master contract is invoiced.
To invoice master contracts:
Select Microsoft Dynamics GP > Tools > Routines > Service Management > Maintenance Contract > Create Invoices.
In the Maintenance Invoicing window, if :
- If you select to invoice All customers or a Branch Range of customers, both master contracts and unassigned maintenance contracts are invoiced.
- If you select to invoice an Individual customer, the criteria you enter in the Individual Customer fields at the bottom of the window determine which contracts are invoiced.
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- Select the Customer Name
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- select Create
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- to invoice all master contracts and unassigned maintenance contracts for that customer.
- If you also enter a Location Name, only the unassigned maintenance contracts for that customer and location are invoiced. Master contracts can span multiple locations, and therefore would not be invoiced.
- If you use the lookup window in the Contract Number field to select a contract, all maintenance contracts display. You can only select unassigned maintenance contracts in this field. If you select or enter an assigned maintenance contract number, you receive an error message alerting you that the contract cannot be invoiced separately.