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Purchases: Purchase No. - extended character limit (8)

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Cover User
Australia

Why is the purchase order number field only 8 digits, yet the invoice number is longer?  It is annoying when entering purchase orders that are longer as they get cut off after 8 digits.  Can this be fixed to enable longer purchase orders to be entered?


"entering purchase order numbers"

 

Current Status: Done
Last Changed: February 2023

Hi Everyone


With the release of AccountRight 2020.2, users can enter up to 13 characters in the Purchase No. field for a Purchase.

29 Comments
John_P
43 Posts
Former Staff

Would it be possible to allow for Purchase Order & Invoice numbers to be longer that just 8 digits?

 

Ideally the Invoice & Purchase Orders numbers show be 12 to 15 digits. The restriction to only accept 8 digits is not enough. Some suppliers will send their Purchase confirmation numbers with more than 8 digits long and these would ideally be entered into MYOB.

 

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Regards,

John

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ASWatCR
Partner
243 Posts
Partner

Agreed and have voted

BW_Plumb17
1 Post
Cover User

Purchase order number increase number of characters to 15 not 8

JulianB
2 Posts
Cover User

Yes please; I am using MYOB as the back end for a national retail franchise store and the proprietry retail platform issues 11 digit order numbers, with the first four digits identifying the originator of the order so this is starting to be a requirement.

Link4einvoicing
Partner
5 Posts
Partner

Yes, we need the purchase number to be extended

ThommyLee84
5 Posts
User

I take it this actually never got actioned? We are importing invoices from another system and the order numbers go up to 9 digits, is it possible to extend it to 9?

 

MagicHat
Contributing User
10 Posts
Contributing User

I can't believe that this was suggested back in May 2014, and more than 5 years later it still hasn't been addressed by MYOB. Come on MYOB, surely it would only be a small amount of coding compared with the complete overhaul that has been done.

SH-VB
8 Posts
User

for entering purchases in MYOB the purchase number character limit is way to small, with the limit of 8 characters you can hardly fit anything in! it needs to increase, even if its only by another 2 or 3! 

Steven_M
45,180 Posts
Former Staff

Hi Everyone


With the release of AccountRight 2020.2, users can enter up to 13 characters in the Purchase No. field for a Purchase.