Unallocating purchase transactions in Sage Accounting lets you unlink a supplier payment or credit note from a purchase invoice.

This is helpful when you need to make adjustments or corrections in your supplier accounts.

When to unallocate

• Correcting a payment allocated to the wrong invoice
• Reallocating a credit note to a different invoice
• Undoing a quick entry transaction allocation

Unallocate supplier payments

• Unallocate a Supplier Payment from a Purchase Invoice
• Unallocate a Supplier Payment from a Purchases Quick Entry Invoice

Credit notes

• Unallocate a Credit Note from a Purchase Invoice
• Unallocate a Credit Note from a Purchases Quick Entry Invoice
• Unallocate a Purchases Quick Entry Credit Note from a Purchases Quick Entry Invoice

Impact of unallocating transactions

Unallocating a transaction simply breaks the link between a payment and an invoice. When you unallocate:

• The invoice becomes unpaid again
• The payment, receipt, or credit note becomes a payment on account for that supplier

Related articles

• Unallocated Receipts or Payments report
• How do I find the associated payment or receipt for a quick entry?
• Break a supplier allocation