Vendor Bill
The vendor bill transaction records payables as they arrive from vendors, allowing you to pay bills from the payables list as they are due, and providing an accurate picture of payables at all points of the billing cycle.
For details about this type of transaction, Vendor Bills.
The vendor bill record is defined in the tranPurch (purchases) XSD.
Supported Operations
The following operations can be used with vendor bill records:
add | addList | attach / detach | delete | deleteList | get | getDeleted | getList | getSavedSearch | getSelectValue | initialize / initializeList | search | update | updateList | upsert | upsertList
You can also use the asynchronous equivalents of SOAP web services list operations. For information about asynchronous operations, see SOAP Web Services Asynchronous Operations. For more information about request processing, see Synchronous Versus Asynchronous Request Processing.
Field Definitions
The SOAP Schema Browser includes definitions for all body fields, sublist fields, search filters, and search joins available to this record. For details, see the SOAP Schema Browser’s vendor bill reference page.
For information on using the SOAP Schema Browser, see SOAP Schema Browser.
The balance field is only returned when using advanced search. It is not returned when using the <Record>SearchBasic search object. In advanced search, you must set the bodyFieldsOnly preference to false. The balance field is not returned if the bodyFieldsOnly preference is set to true. For more information, see bodyFieldsOnly.
Usage Notes
Initializing Vendor Bills
You can initialize a vendor bill from a Vendor or a Purchase Order.
The SOAP web services initialize operation emulates the UI workflow by prepopulating fields on transaction line items with values from a related record. For more information about this operation, see initialize / initializeList.
For information specific to linking multiple purchase orders to a single vendor bill, see Linking Purchase Orders to a Vendor Bill.
Accessing Serial/Lot or Bin Data for Line Items
As of the 2011.2 endpoint, code to access serial number, lot number, and bin number data varies according to whether the Advanced Bin Management / Numbered Inventory Management feature is enabled.
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If this feature is enabled, you must use the 2011.2 endpoint or later to access the Inventory Detail subrecord and the most up-to-date bin and numbered inventory fields. You need to update any SOAP web services code from a previous endpoint that accesses these fields, to avoid errors or unexpected results.
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If this feature is not enabled, you do not need to use the inventory detail record to access bin and numbered inventory fields and you do not need to update any related SOAP web services code from prior to 2011.2.
For more details, see Updating SOAP Web Services Code When Advanced Bin / Numbered Inventory Management is Enabled.