Hey everyone, i am thinking about changing the approval workflow for vendor bills in our company. Currently we are using just the built-in SuiteApprovals solution with vendor bill approval. Means, that if no sufficient approval according to the approval routing is given, the bills aren't booked with G/L impact. We want to have the behaviour, that the bills are already being booked with G/L impact and switch the approval workflow in that way, that on initial booking the bills are always marked with payment on hold flag and after successful approval through the SuiteApprovals workflow, the payment hold option is being unmarked. Is that possible and something which someone of you has implemented? We have considered third party solutions like ZoneApprovals as well, but in first place we would prefer the workflow described above.

Yes I have done this many times for vendor bills One thing to note you should enable “allow non-gl changes” as you may have bills locked in closed periods that still need approval I believe there is also a permission you’d need to add to anyone doing the approvals This is fairly easy to setup using a workflow (depending on how complex your approval matrix is) Most 3rd party solutions only interact with the approval status field and cannot be customized to instead work with payment hold. I like Zone and Co a lot but I’m not sure if it can be changed to work with payment hold

Thanks a lot for the insights 🙌