Hands On With Microsoft Dynamics GP 2018 R2 New Features: Transaction Level Post Through General Ledger

This post is part of the Hands On With Microsoft Dynamics GP 2018 R2 New Features series in which I am going hands on with the new features introduced in Microsoft Dynamics GP 2018 R2 (which was released on the 2^nd October). I reblogged the new features as Microsoft announced them along with some commentary of how I thought they would be received by both my clients and I. In this series, I will be hands on with them giving feedback of how well they work in reality.

The seventh new feature is .When transaction posting is enabled, this feature allows users to perform posting through the General Ledger at a transaction level. The following is a list of supported transactions for this feature:

• Invoice Entry
• Receivables Apply Doc.
• Receivables Cash Receipts
• Receivables Sales Entry
• Sales Deposits
• Sales Trx Entry
• Voided Trx Maintenance (Sales)
• Payables Trx Entry
• Payment Entry
• Purchasing Invoice Entry
• Purchasing Prepayments
• Receivings Trx Entry
• Returns Trx Entry
• Assembly Entry
• Transaction Entry (Inventory)
• Transfer Entry
• Manual Checks (Payroll)
• Project Accounting Transaction windows except Project Closing

To enable post through for transactions, open the Posting Setup window (Administration area page » Setup » Posting » Posting), and mark the Post Through General Ledger checkbox below the Allow Transaction Posting one:

In theory this is a great addition to Dynamics GP, as many clients want to do transaction level posting, although more these days are wanting to use workflow for approvals which still requires batches.

However, in my testing so far, all Sales transactions which I post using post through work fine, but nothing on Payables posts through at transaction level regardless of the settings.

I need to do additional testing, but so far this feature isn’t looking good.