How to Prevent a Single Invoice from Being Emailed in Sage 500 (Without Changing Customer Setup)

Hello!,

We’re trying to understand the correct process for excluding a specific invoice from being emailed, without changing the overall customer transmittal settings.

Context:
One of our stakeholders received an invoice via email, but the intent was to withhold that specific invoice. Typically, we manage customer transmittal settings under:

Accounts Receivable → Customer Maintenance → Maintain Customers → Doc Transmittal tab

However, we do not want to update the customer setup every time we need to suppress just one invoice.

In this particular case:

  • The Contact was set to “DO NOT EMAIL”

  • The Form type was “Invoice”

Despite this, the invoice was still emailed.


Our Question:
Is there a recommended method or flag in Sage 500 to prevent a single invoice from being emailed, while keeping the customer’s default transmittal settings unchanged?

We’re looking for best practices or configuration tips to handle one-off invoice exclusions like this.

Any insights would be appreciated!

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    A little more info on this. In checking with a couple of clients, one has the "Do Not Email" contact set as the primary in Maintain Customers. Another has something similar but when they want to email to multiple recipients at the customer, they set up 1 contact with multiple email addresses separated by the standard semicolon to parse them. This should work with SMTP and Exchange but not sure about other providers, so you may have to test some variations to see what works or works best for you. The email address for any single contact in Sage 500 can hold up to 256 characters

  • 0 in reply to Contefication

    Thank you so much for continuing to look into this! I’ll connect with the AR owner and run a few tests with this solution to see how it works in our environment. I really appreciate the additional context.

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