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Vendor charges Freight for Drop Ship on PO.

Auto shipment created for drop ship receipt on sales order:

Sales order gets completed upon auto receipt and no opportunity to charge back freight to customer on sales order:

Freight can be added manually to Sales Invoice before release but the freight charge backs can be missed which happens most of the time.

Any way to have freight populate on the Sales Order upon release of receipt?

@nvadera7 , can you clarify how vendor freight is going to be recorder in drop ship PO? as a line type of Freight type?

Anyway, there is no  ready out-of-the box functionality to transfer freight from drop ship po to so or invoice, but I believe it can be done via a business event or a  customization - 

  1. you can enter sales orders with Ship Terms having ‘Freight Source Based On’ = Order and ‘Override Freight Price’ = true
  2.  when drop ship po is create and released, copy the freight amount from PO to the SOOrder.CuryFreightAmt field
  3. Then this freight will be copied to invoice

I believe it could be no issue to set up business event for this, Let me know if further advice here is needed 


Thank you for the recommendation. Will review best option.


Any of suggestions here? We pass on the billed freight charges to our customers on all Drop-Ship orders. It would be great to be able to enter that freight amount on a PO Receipt and have that billed to the customer on the invoice when prepared from the Sales Order. Thanks!


What if you do not know the freight amount until after you receive the vendor invoice?


Related questions on dropship cost. See link here for related article: 

 


Thanks for asking these questions! I’m currently how to try to design this in a much better way than originally planned. Did anyone get any feedback not posted or discover a way to accommodate a freight charge on a drop ship purchase order and then have the choice to have that added to the original sales order?


I do not see that this issue has been resolved.  I have Purchase orders where we have prepaid the invoice with the freight.  I had to add the freight as a line item, in order to make the prepayment match what the PO.  But on the SO I do not have it as a line item as I want it to show up in the freight at the bottom, not as a separate line item.   Now that I have prepaid the PO it will not let me receive the PO, and it has a status of Awaiting Link.  How do I complete the PO so that I can invoice the customer, since the SO will not let me invoice because the items have not been received.  I think this should be a high priority for Accumatica to fix as one of their upgrades as it does not operate properly.  The freight costs should always have it’s own field for cost and sell so that it is easily tracked through accounting.  I do not know why a freight cost field was not added to the shipping tab on the Purchase order in the first place.  If someone knows of a way for me to be able to get these items processed in our system.

 

Thank you,

Kevin Buelow


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