From the Microsoft Dynamics GP Blogs: GP 2013 Pricing Tips; Payables to Record Expenses by Vendor; Error Reporting; Sparklines; Discovering Field Info

GP 2013 Top Pricing Tips: Pam Misialek, a member of the Microsoft Dynamics GP Product Management & Marketing team, shares some info about pricing for the new Microsoft Dynamics GP 2013 perpetual licensing model that you need to be aware of.

Here are a couple of her tips:

• If the original purchase date of Microsoft Dynamics GP is before October 1, 2012, there's no charge to move to the new model.
• If the original purchase date is after Oct 1, then it's not likely there would be a cost. Customers get investment credit, so depending on what they need for GP 2013 the credit would apply.

Details are critical with these pricing scenarios, and you can read more of Misialek's tips here.

Using Dynamics GP Payables to Record Expenses by Vendor without Impacting AP: "Sometimes with Dynamics GP (as with any other accounting system) you just need to be creative," says Janelle Riley, co-owner and president of Syvantis Technologies,.

"A common need for accounts payable is to track expenses by vendor without impacting the balance in accounts payable," Riley says. "Recently, a client wanted to record employee expenses in the employee's AP account. However, expenses are reimbursed through an outside payroll service. This means that they wanted to track the expenses by employee but not impact the accounts payable subsidiary ledger or the accounts payable general ledger account."

Riley says the client came up with a good solution: Enter the expenses as AP invoices and then do a credit memo and hit the employee reimbursement account.