I presume you mean preventing distributions on AP Voucher Lines to Revenue accounts and preventing distributions on AR Invoice Lines to AP accounts? You would need modifications to the Process Vouchers and Process Invoices tasks to enforce those types of rules. I'd suggest discussing your needs with your Sage reseller so that they can provide a quote for the effort required.

I presume you mean preventing distributions on AP Voucher Lines to Revenue accounts and preventing distributions on AR Invoice Lines to AP accounts? You would need modifications to the Process Vouchers and Process Invoices tasks to enforce those types of rules. I'd suggest discussing your needs with your Sage reseller so that they can provide a quote for the effort required.

That's unfortunate for Sage to have fallen short in this area. But thank you for the response. 

To be fair to Sage they cannot envision every option that a user may want. What one user considers a "must have" others may consider useless.

I can understand why your company may want to prevent these types of postings. I do wish that there were native functionality to require supervisory access to allow posting to what I would label as "Control Accounts": 'Retained Earning', 'Accounts Payable' accounts in Maintain Vendor Classes, 'Accounts Receivable' accounts in Maintain Customers, 'Cash' Accounts tied to Set Up Bank Accounts, etc., so that GL journal entries, voucher distributions, invoice line distributions, etc. have a virtual fence around them so that only subsidiary modules' native postings are normally allowed to these accounts.

In my opinion, I don't think its a matter of fair in this case but possibly lack of envisioning purpose of the software and or knowledge on the module / subject before setting up. While there are exceptions to almost every rule in accounting or grey areas but for AP vouchers to hit revenue and AR invoices to hit cogs / expenses that isn't expected in the normal course of business. However an exception could be a controller could appease a customer by cutting a check when a refund is due for whatever the reason and hit a revenue account but that is an exception. Normally the vendor would request to apply a payment to either a open voucher or as a credit to future vouchers instead of issuing a refund. I couldn't think of anything for AR invoice to cogs / expenses. 

Jesse 

Sage does track product suggestions such as this to consider them for future releases.

You can post a request here: https://www11.v1ideas.com/SageERP/MAS500, or reach out directly to Sage 500's Senior Product Manager, Linda Cade ([email protected]; https://www.linkedin.com/in/linda-cade-01693210/)

Thanks. I would fill that thread up. lol