Produce an alert for accounting dates entered in far future. For example, current year is 2015 and someone keys 2051. Possible alert for date entered outside of six months from either accounting period or current date (system date)
by: Bronwyn D. | over a year ago | Other
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Include with correction for defect 49284 The ability to use any date when writing a manual quick print check without any error or warning
This is such a big problem! We just spent an entire day sorting out an accounting mess because AP Enter Invoices did not give us a warning of an accounting date that was mistyped, and was 12 months in the future. WHY is something so easy to implement not getting taken care of??
This is crazy this even exists! We are still trying to fix an issue and have spent a whole day dealing with a bad date. Sage now has to have an expert team figure out how to fix this. It all could have been prevented if there was a system in place that would prevent you period from entering in a date outside of the parameters you set in the settings.
I agree. You can close periods to prevent entering older dates, but there doesn't seem to be anything to prevent the entry of far-future dates. We've had several accidental entries of those, and it's a real pain to fix.
There is a warning that this is a future date, but it does not stop you. Right after a period end is where I tend to make this mistake because I assume that it is warning me, for example that I am positing in January when my year end is still open. Agree that there should be a limit or at least a "counted" period warning. My eyesight is getting worse and the boxes are not getting any bigger so I made this mistake a few times recently. The worst part is you can't just change the entry to what you need it to be.