Customer Card - any purpose for Bill-to = Customer No.???

Mike_HWG

I'm going to cash in my stupid question for the day

On a Customer Card, is there any purpose why you would want to set the Bill-to Customer No. equal to the same Customer No.?


Example:
1. Go to Customer 10000 The Cannon Group PLC
2. Set Bill-to Customer No. equal to 10000

Savatage

there is no need to fill in the bill-to customer no unless you want to ship to this customer, and the invoice should be sent to a different customer.

Mike_HWG

Yes, I agree, but I'm asking something slightly different. I'm asking if they are functionally the same. So far I'm thinking 'yes', but assumption has bitten me before

David_Singleton

Mike in standard Navision there will be no difference if the field is filled in or not. I have customers that do fill it in, generally for one of three reasons

1/ Consistency; they don't want it sometimes filled in and sometimes blank. It is sometimes easier to tell the usert just to fill it in than explain why sometimes it is blank.
2/ Filtering; its easier to filter if the field is filled in, but in some cases the opposite, there is then no way to filter on customers that have bill to = sell to.
3/ Reports; clients may report on this field, in which case it needs to be filled in.

In simple terms, if you don't have a reason to fill it, then leave it blank.

Mike_HWG

Thanks David - that's perfect.

David_Singleton

Glad to help. :thumbsup: