This guide explains how to set up a basic Continia template for invoice processing in Business Central. It covers recognising fields, choosing the appropriate master template based on invoice type, manually correcting data fields, setting default approvers, handling multiline fields, and using translations for commonly missing or overlapped data such as order numbers.
New Template Setup
- If document header, comments section, the Template No. field are all blank it means a template hasn’t been setup for this vendor yet
- Click Process > Recognize Fields
- This will rescan the invoice and ask you which master template you want to use
- You have five options
- PURCHASE PO UPDATE – if the invoice has a Purchase Order Number and you want it to match it
- PURCHASE-GB – If the invoice has no PO, no approval and is just simple g/l code
- PURCHASE-INVAPRV – Invoices without a PO that are sent for approval, no default approver is set
- You can add a default approver after
- Select the one you wish to use and click ok
- The system will try it’s best to find all the data on the invoice
- If the data is not on the invoice, you can always manually enter it (Park code for instance)
Making Adjustments
- To adjust the data search, click the field that is incorrect in the Document Header
- Right click and drag over a word in the document window, to assign a word to search for to that field. This tells the system where to anchor the field
- Right click box should turn orange and highlight the word
- Left click over the data you want to assign to the field
- Left click box should turn blue. Make the box as big as you think future information will be
- Right click and drag over a word in the document window, to assign a word to search for to that field. This tells the system where to anchor the field
Why does the purchase order blue data box overlap the text?
- This is done if the company continually forgets to include the PO part of the order number
- Click the three dots on the Our Order No. field to access the translation
- From there something like the overlapped text will be translated to PO usually
The translations work from the top down
Field (maybe park or description) is only reading one line
- Open field settings by clicking … next to field name
- Turn on Multiline
How to set a default approval contact in Our Contact
- Click the three dots … next to the our contact field on the Continia template
- In the formula field, type the purchaser code of the user you with to set as default
- You can also find some pre-set defaults, from the document journal page in Translations > Salespeople/Purchasers
- Click OK
Adjust VAT on Invoice Approval Templates (No PO)
If your template is only being used to send the invoice for approval (and not for matching against a purchase order), you can control which VAT code is applied to the amounts by adjusting the template’s VAT settings.
To change the VAT code used for the net amounts field:
In the Top Ribbon go to Template > Accounts for Amounts
Open the relevant Invoice Approval Template.
Go to Template > Accounts for Amounts.
In this window, select the G/L account you want to update.
Change the VAT Prod. Posting Group or VAT Bus. Posting Group as required.
Note: If your template contains multiple net amount fields, you will see multiple lines in this window. Each line represents one amount field and can have its own G/L account and VAT settings.
Note: If the Account No. is changed you will have to update the VAT Prod. Posting Group again
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