Extracting Payments for A_P
Contracts whose deliveries are complete, and financial details finalized can be extracted and sent to accounts payable to be paid. Click the Extract Payments for A/P button (red box, below) or press F1.
Make certain your contacts are ready to be sent to A/P. For corrections, if necessary, are much easier to do here, than it will be once they're added into accounts payable.
Click the Extract Payments for A/P button (above) in the lower left of your screen, or press F1, to continue.
Your screen changes to:
Note the tan summary pane in the upper left of your screen. It shows a summary of your selection, and provides a legend for the color coding in the grid to the right of the summary. When contracts are extracted for Accounts Payable, they're marked by AMS to avoid sending duplicate payment requests.
All the grapes for the contract should be in, and the All Tons in as of check box checked (Grape Contract Maintenance Screen) prior to sending for payment.
The two buttons at the lower left of your screen (Extract Unsent Payments for A/P and Re-Extract Previously Sent Payments for A/P) let you choose between preparing an original extract, or re-extracting an item or items previously sent.
When you choose either extract, AMS creates an Excel spreadsheet containing the information you've requested. You'll then import that spreadsheet to Accounts Payable. The spreadsheet is already in the correct format for your A/P upload.
Example spreadsheet created in the extract step above: