I'm doing a transfer between subsidiaries. I'm trying to get it to post to the default intercompany payables and receivables accounts, which in a normal journal would require a customer or vendor to be defined on the line, the eliminate checkbox to be ticked on the line, and a "To subsidiary" to be defined on the header. It looks like the fixed asset module doesn't populate these, as when I try to process the transfer I'm getting "elimination settings" errors. Is there a way to achieve this, or do I need to create another account (other current asset) that holds the transferred balance?

have you set your asset transfer accounts (Fixed Assets > Setup > Asset Transfer Accounts)?

Yes we have

You should first create two intermediary accounts: an “Other Current Asset” account in the source subsidiary and an “Other Current Liability” account in the target subsidiary. Then, configure the FAM asset transfer to post to these accounts instead of using intercompany AP/AR. Once the transfer is done, you can manually or automatically (via script) generate a standard intercompany journal entry to reclass the balance, using a vendor or customer etc

yeah I thought that might end up being the solution. Annoying that advanced intercompany journals can handle a default relationship through intercompany AR/AP, but fixed asset transfers can't. Just Netsuite things I guess

NetAsset can transfer assets much easier: https://www.netgain.tech/netasset