Payment date cannot be before AP purchase invoice date

Did you receive an error when paying AP purchase invoices with a message that the payment date cannot be before the AP purchase invoice creation date? This error occurs in the following conditions:

• The option Payment dates must be greater than their AP purchase invoice dates is enabled in your Accounts Payable configuration.
• The Set payment date to field in Pay AP purchase invoices is set to a date that occurs before the AP purchase invoice date of at least one AP purchase invoice that you selected for payment.

To work around this issue, you can set a different payment date for the affected AP purchase invoices.

Set a different payment date for an individual AP purchase invoice while paying AP purchase invoices

1. Go to Accounts Payable > All > Pay AP purchase invoices.
2. Filter for the AP purchase invoices that you want to pay and select them.
3. Set payment information such as Payment method, Bank, and Set payment date to, as usual.
4. If a selected transaction has an AP purchase invoice date prior to the date you set for all AP purchase invoices, enter a later date in the Payment date column for that AP purchase invoice.
   Select the date in the Payment date column to make the field editable. You can now override the date for this AP purchase invoice.
5. When ready, select Pay now or Add to outbox.

   All AP purchase invoices are paid with the date that you selected in Set payment date to, except where you overrode the payment date.

   Are you paying multiple AP purchase invoices for a single supplier using Merge requests into one per supplier, or is this option is set as a default on the supplier record? Only payments that occur on the same date can be merged. If you override the date for an AP purchase invoice, it will be merged with payments made on the override date only.