Documentation/ Reading correction rules/ Applying a fixed discount to each line
Applying a fixed discount to each line
The supplier prints the lines at full price and takes the discount off once at the end of the document. The lines added together come to more than the total.
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Symptoms in the documents
- The lines added together exceed the document total by a constant percentage.
- The discount appears once, at the end of the document.
- The document is flagged for checking totals with no figure actually misread.
How the rule works
The rule applies that percentage to every line that arrives without a discount. Where a line already has its own discount, the line's own is kept.
This rule runs after the other line corrections, so that it works on prices and amounts that have already been put right.
Documents the rule applies to
The rule applies to documents processed after it is switched on. Documents already loaded are not changed: to put those right they have to be processed again or edited by hand.
How to request a correction rule
Support configures this rule: the percentage has to be set, and it has to be confirmed that the supplier's lines do not already carry discounts of their own.
Rules are created by talking to Dijit IA. Two things are needed:
- The reference of a document where the error shows, the number in the list's ID column. The rule is built from that document, which has to belong to your company and have its supplier identified.
- The wrong figure and the right one, stating the line and the field. A precise description saves the back and forth: "the quantity is saved as 0 on every line and should be taken from the units column" works; "it does not read it properly" does not.
Dijit IA creates the rule for your company and says in the conversation what it has done. A document belonging to another company on the account cannot be used to create one.
Afterwards, check the result on that supplier's next documents. A rule that cannot find the figure leaves the document unchanged, so the risk is not that it fails: it is that it gets something wrong.