The contract management app works based of Sales Quotes. The means that contracts may be created based of a sales quote or that the contract may be created from scratch.
To install the Contract Management app, you simply navigate to the Microsoft Marketplace for Business Central apps (AppSource) via your own Business Central environment. From here you can automatically install the extension and make it available within every company in your Business Central environment.
For the correct working of the app, make sure that the setting for the Micro Apps Base App is set to “allowing HttpClient Request”.
Once the installation is complete, the app needs to be set up. This can be done with the Contract Management Wizard. This wizard contains all the necessary steps to completely set up the extension.
The first step is to register yourself and to activate the trial or subscription. With the trial, you can use the app two weeks free of charge. After the trial period, you need to activate the subscription. Make sure both fields are checked (like the example in the right picture.)
Make sure both fields are checked (like the example in the right picture.)
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In the next step, you need to assign the number series for contracts. Select or create a new number series for this contract application.
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If you want to automatically add dimensions for a contract, select or create a default dimension value for your contracts. This field is optional. If you leave the field blank, no extra dimension is created.
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The last step contains assigning the contracts permission set. For every user that uses the contracts app and doesn’t have super rights, you need to set the contracts permission. Open the user overview page with the button, select the user and assign the “Contracts” permission in the User Permission Sets tab. After this step you are done with the configuration.
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Converting a sales quote
To convert a sales quote to a contract you can simply create a sales quote as usual. Remember that all the lines on the sales quote will be converted onto the contract. Perform the following steps, once the sales quote is completed. Navigate to Process in the ribbon and click on the Make Contract button.
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Contracts – List View
The contract page can be found by using the keyword Contracts, this will bring you to the list view of the contracts. The list is by default filtered on the column Status and only displays active contracts, to display inactive contracts you may need to change the filter.
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Contracts – Card View
Before a contract can be invoice additional fields need to be filled in on the contract card. The fields provide additional information regarding the duration, latest invoiced period and frequency of invoicing.
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Contract – Invoicing
Invoicing one or multiple contracts may be done in the following two ways. The first option is to invoice an contract directly from a contract card. In the top left corner the button Invoicing… will be visible.
Before an invoice is created, a check is performed if the next invoicing period is within the contracting period. If this is the case Business Central will create the invoice, if not the invoice will not be created.
Furthermore, when contract is invoice, the user is able to set additional filter and combine multiple contracts into one invoice.
Besides being able to invoice a contract directly from the contract card, the user may also invoice directly from the Business Central home screen by searching for Create Contract Invoices. Here the same filters may be set.
During the invoicing process standard Sales Invoices will be created. The invoice lines will depict the relevant contract no.’s and invoicing period of the contract.
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