Prepaid Vendor - JC at time of use

We prepay a material vendor.  The initial invoice to establish the credit on account is charged to a prepaid GL Account.  The Vendor then sends tickets for the materials ordered/used.  We need to job cost these ticket amounts and reduce the prepaid account.  I attempted to enter and AP invoice with a debit line to direct materials and a credit line to the prepaid account, invoice nets Zero, but Sage won't allow me to save with a zero invoice total.  How should this scenario be handled?

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    Enter a 1-3 journal transaction, crediting the prepaid account and debiting the direct materials account.  You will be able to job cost the direct materials with this approach.

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    If you post a journal entry you won’t get in AP invoice history you’ll want. I would enter invoices as they come in a job cost them. Then enter a credit for the total you want to apply to those invoices and the credit hits the prepaid account. Then print a zero check to clear the credit against the invoices. 

    You could also just post the credit in full and then just apply as needed to incoming invoices.