Hello guys! I'm new here, but I wanted to share so...
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Hello guys! I'm new here, but I wanted to share something pretty interesting as my first post 😊 Today I had a random NetSuite realization from a project I'm working on. In publishing, authors are almost always set up as both a Vendor AND a Customer (1-to-1 match). At first, I only thought about the Vendor side (makes total sense for paying out royalties, right?), but the Customer side is actually super important for a few key reasons: • First: Authors buy bulk copies of their OWN books all the time with author discounts, so you need standard SOs/Invoices to process that. • Second: Instead of the author paying cash for books or extra edit fees, the finance team just nets the open Customer Invoice against their next Vendor Royalty payment. • Third: Anything out-of-scope (extra indexing, custom covers, etc.) gets billed to them via Debit Memos or Customer Invoices. P.S. Linking the Vendor and Customer records through the "Other Relationships" subtab makes reporting and royalty netting way less painful to set up. Anyone else run into industry-specific setups like this where an entity has to be dual-roled? How are you guys handling automated netting in NetSuite?