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Splitting Deductions

Customers occasionally combine different types of deductions. For example, a buyer who runs an account promotion and also receives broken merchandise in a shipment might combine the costs of the account promotion and the broken merchandise into one deduction. To properly account for the two different deduction types, you need to split the original deduction into two separate deductions.

When you split a deduction record into two separate deduction records, the original deduction record is retained, but its status changes to inactive. The automatically generated ID of the original deduction appears in the split record's Parent ID field.

NOTE:  You can split deductions only when the status is Open.

This task is a step in Process of Managing Account Promotion Deductions.

To split a deduction

1. Navigate to the Administration - Data screen, then the Deductions view.
2. Select a deductions record.
3. Click the Split view tab.
4. In the Deductions list, and click Split.

   Two new records appear in the Split list.

5. In the Split list, select one of the new deduction records, and enter values in the fields in the Split Deductions form as required.

   Make sure you adjust the Amount fields to reflect the value of the split deductions.

   Repeat this step for the second new deduction record.