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How to handle Shipping & Tax estimates on POs for expense-based purchases?
Hello everyone,
I’m hoping to get some guidance from the community on how best to handle Shipping and Tax on Purchase Orders that contain only expense or service lines (not inventory items).
Our procurement team often receives vendor quotes that include estimated shipping and tax, and they would like the Purchase Order to reflect those amounts so approvers can see an accurate expected total (Subtotal → Shipping → Tax → Total). This is fairly common in other purchasing systems, so we're trying to understand the standard NetSuite approach.
Here’s what we are running into:
- On inventory-related POs, we use landed cost templates successfully and have no issues.
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