Override WIP Account in Production Order in Labor Transaction

If you need to use a different WIP account for a specific order, the supported approach is to update the WIP Account/Subaccount fields on the Production Order Maintenance form (AM201500) when the order is in Planned status or by putting the production order On Hold when it is in Released status. Labor and material transactions will then post to that updated account. There is no native way to override the WIP account for the labor transaction level, as labor transactions inherit the account directly from the production order.

There is an existing Community Idea requesting separate or controllable WIP accounts by labor/material/overhead, which aligns closely with your scenario. You may vote and provide the use case in the community idea : https://community.acumatica.com/ideas/control-accounts-extend-functionality-to-manufacturing-module-to-control-wip-accounts-separate-wip-by-labor-material-fovh-vovh-861 

that would be nice, however, I have multiple labor GL accounts (i.e. electrical engineering, mechanical, etc.) that make it difficult to do that approach of changing the production order. plus, I am uploading labor across multiple production orders at one time; i suppose in import scenario can change it and then change it back but that sounds like it would create issues. Thank you for the link. it just seems like importing direct labor vs. direct material and telling it what GL accounts you want should be easier….

Could you set the rate to zero so no costs, but only time is captured on the production orders - and then capture your labor cost to the project?

Unfortunately, I need both cost and hours to go into the production order. Thank you for the suggestion.