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Document Header Fields
The universal marketing-document header fields shared by every SAP B1 sales and purchasing document โ CardCode, dates, totals, status, and the copy-chain links.
Goods Receipt
A manual stock increase with no purchase order behind it โ inventory rises and posts to an offset account, against a warehouse and never a business partner.
Incoming Payment
A customer payment received and allocated against open A/R invoices โ cash rises, the customer's receivable clears, and the applied invoices close.
Master Data
Business partners, items, warehouses, chart of accounts, price lists, payment terms, and tax codes โ the master data every document depends on, and the dependency chain that must exist before any flow can run.
Purchase Quotation
A request for a price from one or more suppliers โ the head of the purchasing chain. No stock, no G/L effect.
Sales Quotation
A non-binding price offer to a customer โ the first document in the sales chain. No stock, no G/L effect.
The SAP Business One Mental Model
Every business action creates a document, and every document answers four questions โ who, what, how much, and what effect.
Document Line Fields
The DocumentLines fields on every SAP B1 marketing document โ item, quantity, price, warehouse, tax, and the line-level BaseType/BaseEntry/BaseLine copy chain.
Goods Issue
A manual stock decrease with no sales document behind it โ inventory falls and posts to an expense account, against a warehouse and never a business partner.
Order to Cash
The sales document chain from quotation to customer payment โ each step's status, its stock and GL effect, and how Norma automates it.
Outgoing Payment
A payment made to a vendor and allocated against open A/P invoices โ cash falls, the vendor payable clears, and the applied invoices close.
Purchase Order
A binding commitment to a supplier to buy goods or services. No stock, no G/L effect โ but it drives MRP and starts the three-way match.
Sales Order
The customer's commitment to buy โ may commit (reserve) stock, but posts no G/L entry. The hub of the sales chain.
The Document Chain and How Documents Reference Each Other
How SAP B1 documents copy from one another through BaseType, BaseEntry, and BaseLine, and how the open/closed status keeps a chain reconciled.
Business Partner Fields
The BusinessPartners master fields in SAP B1 โ CardCode, CardType (customer/supplier/lead), currency, payment terms, credit limit, addresses, and contacts.
Goods Receipt PO (GRPO)
Records the physical receipt of goods from a supplier. Increases stock and posts the GRNI accrual โ the received leg of the three-way match.
Journal Entry
A manual, balanced posting straight to the general ledger โ debit and credit lines against G/L accounts, with no business partner and no item.
Procure to Pay
The purchasing document chain from purchase order to vendor payment โ the three-way match, GRNI, the GL effect of each step, and how Norma automates it.
Service Layer Basics
What the SAP Business One Service Layer is โ OData entities over HTTP โ and how Norma talks to it to read and write documents.
Stock Transfer
Moves stock from one warehouse to another โ quantity leaves the source and arrives at the destination with no net change in inventory value and no business partner.
A/P Invoice
Records the supplier's bill and the payable owed. Clears the GRNI accrual and books Accounts Payable โ the billed leg of the three-way match.
A/R Invoice
The customer billing document โ creates the legal claim and posts the G/L entry (Accounts Receivable, Revenue, VAT).
Inventory & Warehouse
Stock movement types, valuation methods, warehouses and bins, the counting process, and each movement's accounting effect โ plus how Norma reads and moves stock.
Item Fields
The Items master fields in SAP B1 โ ItemCode, ItemType, the sales/purchase/inventory flags, per-warehouse stock (ItemWarehouseInfoCollection), prices, and valuation method.
Codes and Enums
SAP B1 coded-value reference โ the DocObjectCode / object-type table (oOrders=17, oInvoices=13, โฆ), BoStatus, BoYesNoEnum, and document-type enums used in Service Layer filters.
Finance & Banking
How operational documents feed the general ledger, the standard journal entry per document type, A/R and A/P aging, payments, bank reconciliation, dimensions, and the period close โ plus how Norma reads the books.
Purchase Return
Sends received goods back to a supplier. Decreases stock and reverses the GRNI accrual โ the mirror of a Goods Receipt PO.
Sales Return
The reversal of a delivery โ goods come back from the customer and stock increases. The physical counterpart to a delivery.
A/P Credit Memo
Reverses the value of an A/P Invoice โ the supplier credits money back. Reduces Accounts Payable; may also decrease stock.
A/R Credit Memo
Reverses the value of an A/R Invoice โ credits money back to the customer and unwinds the receivable and revenue.
A/R Down Payment
An advance payment request against a future invoice โ the customer pays up front, before goods or the final invoice.