No approval record created in AP Bill

Hello,

I notice the status of the Bill is “Open”, meaning it’s already released.

The timing of Acumatica approval process is such that it happens when the bill is removed from hold.

What happens if you put in a New Bill now, with your approval map activated?  The bill should start out on Hold status and if you remove Hold the status will become Pending Approval.

Hi Laura

This bill was created with the approval map activated.

I wonder what the timing is on the PPV calculation itself.  I cannot see the aptran PO PPV Amount field you are using in the approval condition in my AP Bill screen. How can we tell whether PO PPV Amount is  populated on Bill Entry, or populated on release of the bill?

I’m looking in Help and there are hints, but I haven’t found a definite documentation of the Timing of PPV Calculation, when is this field in AP Tran populated? This timing will be key on whether the field can or cannot be successfully used as a trigger for the approval map.

If you have a local demo, you may be able to query the aptran table in SQL Server for an AP Bill on Hold status that has the non-zero purchase price variance, and see whether the amount is populated before release of AP Bill.