Pay Schedules and Budgets

• Central Dummy Budget Account

  A "fallback" budget account used for requesting payment schedules when no other suitable budget has been found. A request in preparation is assigned to a central "dummy" budget common to all request processing.

• Default Requesting Budget

  When enough organizational information about the request is available and confirmed (by action 'Set Specified), the request is automatically re-assigned to a specific budget according to the related project or cost center. This assignment is governed by the 'Default Requesting Budget' condition. If the condition does not lead to one specific budget, the request stays assigned to the dummy budget and cannot be approved before another budget is selected by the approver.

• Copy Pay Schedules from Request to Order

  Enable this setting when requesting prices are the same as ordering costs. In this situation it is possible to obtain order item payment schedules by copying them from request items (if no external vendor offer is assigned to the request items).