Is it possible to "inactivate" a subsidiary from being used even though it's listed on the vendor record? It doesn't seem possible, but the language in the help is also a bit vague. It says you can't delete them if they have a customer transaction, but it says you can deactivate it when it's not longer useful to you.

At any time you can add a subsidiary to the shared vendor. You can delete a subsidiary if there are no associated transactions. However, if an entity shares a customer and a vendor and both are associated with a subsidiary, note the following. Any customer transaction prevents you from deleting the subsidiary assignment.

You can deactivate an assigned subsidiary when the assignment is no longer useful to you.

Yeah, your options as far as deactivating are inactivating the entire sub or that entire vendor. Can't remove a sub on a vendor once you've put transactions on it. Probably best option would be to create a duplicate vendor with the appropriate subs and inactivate the old one, if that's a feasible solution for your requirements.

ok that's what I thought. Yea they do not want to create a vendor per subsidiary and would prefer to have them all created under the same vendor. I think if I create a workflow to stop bills or payments from being created it may satisfy their requirements, but need to verify. Thank you