Is it possible to still do an automatic freight-in allocation if you have multiple inventory items on your purchase invoice?
The old system worked well for us as we usually have a freight charge from our supplier to our freight forwarder and an additional freight charge from our freight forwarder (on its own purchase invoice). We used a ‘freight clearing’ account and it worked well for our situation.
We are confused as to how to process our purchase invoices now with the new checkbox. I have read the guide on the freight-in and it mentions it is possible to do manual allocation of freight and also automatic allocation if you have multiple items however I am not sure if this section has been updated with the new checkbox.
We have tried entering our latest purchase invoice but can’t balance the purchase invoice with the new checkbox for freight-in as the delivery charge to our freight forwarder is not being added to the purchase invoice total when it is listed in the new ‘checkbox’ section.
Please help 
as we have invoices to sort out and process asap … thank you
The checkbox is not really changing much. Can you demonstrate with the screenshot what you see and what expect to see?
I’m more interested in seeing how you can’t enter purchase invoices anymore. Also, you can always directly attribute any cost to specific inventory item without specifying quantity. This way the cost will increase while the quantity will remain unchanged.
We used to do an automatic allocation using the ‘freight-in’ item for delivery to freight forwarder that is included in our purchase invoice. We then have a purchase invoice from our freight forwarder and we use the ‘freight clearing account’ in our purchase invoice from our supplier that cancels out with the purchase invoice from our freight forwarder.
When we use the checkbox, the delivery charge and the freight forwarder charge is not included in the supplier purchase invoice.
We can enter purchase invoices but we can’t get the purchase invoice to balance as the delivery charge or freight forwarder charge is not included in the purchase invoice.
Does that make sense?
I can provide a screenshot if this helps you?
Yes please include screenshots, they help a lot when you are describing what is going on.
Here are the screenshots of our purchase invoice. The freight charges don’t get included in the total of the purchase invoice. When we process the payment for this purchase invoice, it shows we have overpaid the purchase invoice by the freight charges. In this example, we have a delivery charge to our freight forwarder and then a freight charge from our freight forwarder to us. The first screenshot is a test version of the purchase invoice with only the delivery charge added
When I look at older purchase invoices with the previous Manager version, they have converted fine. Is there a step we are missing when entering? I have checked the Manager guide but we can’t see anything we have missed.
The purpose of Freight-in checkbox is to spread the cost across other inventory items you have purchased on the invoice.
It doesn’t seem like you have purchased any inventory items on the invoice (nothing is selected in Item column)
Thank you … I wondered if that was the issue … we add these items together as a kit and we havent entered the kit as yet. That makes so much sense! Thank you for clarifying so quickly, really appreciate it