When a project is configured to use invoice approvals, all of the invoices for the project must be approved before they are accepted and posted.
An exclamation mark displays next to the Invoices option on the Projects menu in the Navigation pane if a draft invoice that you are responsible for approving or rejecting for billing has been submitted for approval for the currently selected project.
When you reject an invoice in
Vantagepoint, the invoice status immediately changes to Rejected. If the invoice's project is the main project for a billing group, all projects within the billing group are rejected as well. If an invoice is rejected, anyone who has required security access can make changes to that invoice and submit it for approval again.
When you reject an invoice, you can also enter comments to summarize the reasons for the rejection and explain what needs to be changed so the invoice can be approved.
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In the Navigation pane, select
.
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At the top of the Invoices form, enter either a complete or partial name or number in the
Find project
lookup field to find and select the project for which you want to reject an invoice.
The draft invoice precedes the Invoices grid, in its own row labeled
Draft, followed by the invoice date and the invoice amount contained in the draft.
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Click or hover over the draft invoice, click
to the right of the row, and select
Reject Invoice.
Vantagepoint displays the Billing Comments dialog box.
- If there is an existing billing comment with
In Process in the
Action column, the status in that column is changed to
Rejected.
- If there is no existing comment with
In Process in the
Action column, a new comment row with a status of
Rejected in
Action is added to the grid.
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Select the
Rejected comment row on the grid and enter your comment in
Comment Entry.
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Click the
Reject button to reject the invoice for billing.
When you reject the invoice,Vantagepoint updates the invoice status to Rejected. If
Vantagepoint is configured to support invoice approval alerts,
Vantagepoint sends an alert to the person responsible for the next step in the process so they can make necessary updates before resubmitting the invoice.