Year-End Wizard - Cannot Proceed

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Once you have chosen a close option, you will see this window if one or more purchases in the fiscal year you want to close are waiting on a bill from a vendor. Before year-end close can be completed, you will have to remove the Waiting on Billflag for all purchases in the Purchases window. Follow these steps:

1. To close the Sage 50 Year-End wizard, select the Cancel button.
2. From the Tasks menu, select Purchases/Purchases-Receive Inventory.
3. Click the List toolbar button.
4. In the list, use the Waiting on bill column and select and double-click the first purchase that is awaiting a bill.
5. In the Purchases/Receive Inventory window, click in the Waiting on Bill check box to remove the check mark.
6. You must enter an invoice number in the Invoice # field.
• If you have an invoice number from the vendor, enter this number.
• If you do not have a number from the vendor, enter "Waiting" or some such text that you can replace with the invoice number once you receive the invoice.

Note: Be sure to write this number down so that when the bill does come from the vendor, you won't inadvertently post it to two different invoice numbers and end up paying the same bill twice.

7. Click Save.
8. Now repeat steps 3 to 7 for all other purchases that are waiting on bills.
9. When finished, you can go to Tasks > System and select Year-End Wizard to start the year-end close process again.

What do you want to do next?

• Read about entering a purchase invoice, including the Waiting on Bill from Vendor field
• Read the Year-End wizard overview
• Review the entire Year-End Wizard process
• Read the year-end overview

Published: March 21, 2017
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