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[Vanimal]

Good Afternoon!

             I'm fairly new to MAS and I was wondering if anyone has experienced the issue I am currently having. I recieved a notice of a Levy towards one of our contractors and I must divert the pending payments in our system to the Employment Development Department. The issue is that I cannot change the name of the Contractor. On the Initial Vendor Maintanence screen I can correct the name field however if you click on "Other Addresses" the original name and address appears. From previous experience I know that the name and address in the "Other Addresses" field will be the name and address used when sending payment. I can alter the address in the "Other Addresses" field but It will not allow me to change the Contractors name and If I send a check in the contractors name to the EDD they will be unable to cash it. Any ideas? We do have a service package with MAS 500 but similar to the other posts our representive is non responsive and when he is he charges us an arm an a leg. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

[trodman]

What about using the "AB" button on the top of the screen to rename the contact.

[aclark]

The AB button at the top will allow you to change the VendorID, but this will not affect how it prints on the check.  The check will still print the Vendor Name.

You could put the name of the company that needs to appear on the check in the DBA field.  Then create a new check form that prints the DBA field instead of the Vendor Name.  Use this check form only for this vendor. 

This may be more work than you want, but I can't think of another way to pull a different Vendor Name without just changing the name on the Vendor.

[oyama]

What about modifying the CrystalReport? You can replace the vendor name on the report with the vendor ID.

[jmiles]

In theory (I think), you would create a new address on the vendor record for EDD. I think you would then set the remit-to address on the voucher to the new EDD address. However, I can't see a way to change the remit-to address on a posted voucher.

Here's my suspicion why changing values on the Maintain Vendors screen has no effect on the check. When the voucher associated with the check was created, it is likely that a copy of the vendor's address was created for the voucher's remit-to address. This means that the address on the vendor record and the address on the voucher record are stored as two completely different records in the database. Changing the vendor address will have no effect on the copy that was made for the voucher.