How can a vendor bill be created in Pending Approval status and still have a GL impact? In countries such as Nordics there's a requirement to have the GL impact recorded even before the transaction is Approved

I don't think you can do this with standard. Maybe create a custom field with the value: pending approval, rejected, approved Then configure a WF with this logic

@Marc Are there any SuiteApps or other that can handle this?

I don’t think Because pending approval is equal to NO posting in your GL

I agree with you, but turns out in Nordics - regulation requires companies to acknowledge GL impact as soon as a transaction is created. I know there's a way to do this, just don't know how 🙂

then you just need to create a custom field in the header called Custom Status with a drop-down list: pending approval , rejected and approved . This field will therefore not prevent the impact on the general ledger. But you will have the information that the transaction is pending approval

Thanks!

Use ”payment hold” as your indicator. Ofc you can use a custom field for the status, and you should. But when it is approved, uncheck ”payment hold”. Makes your payments work as expected :)