Configuration

1. Go to menu > Invoicing > Configurations > Settings
2. Enable Invoice’s Retention on Payment
3. Select the Retention Payable Account and Retention Receivalbe Account, make sure this account allow reconciliation
4. Once setup, user will see new Retention fields in Customer Invoice / Vendor Bill.

Usage

To plan for retention during invoice

1. Create new Vendor Bill (or Customer Invoice).
2. Specify amount to retain, by percent or amount.
3. Validate invoice as per normal.

To make payment retention

1. From the invoice, click Register Payment.
2. On the payment window, system suggest the retention amount, click on helper toggle to apply it.
3. By default, enforce retention is checked to ensure that, a valid retention amount and retention account is applied.
4. Once ready, make payment as per normal. Journal Entry created with a retention account move line (to be cleared at later time).

Note: System just help to validate retention. At the end, user can ignore the retention.

To return the retained amount

1. As time arrived to return the retained amount. Create the new Vendor Bill (or Customer Invoice).
2. Select the partner. Return Retention field will list only uncleared retained amount for this partner.
3. Select one or multiple payments (journal entry), system will auto populate the retained amount.
4. Validate invoice as per normal, system will now clear (reconcile) that retention.
5. Proceed to payment as per normal.

Bug Tracker

Bugs are tracked on GitHub Issues. In case of trouble, please check there if your issue has already been reported. If you spotted it first, help us to smash it by providing a detailed and welcomed feedback.

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Credits

Maintainers

This module is maintained by the OCA.

OCA, or the Odoo Community Association, is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to support the collaborative development of Odoo features and promote its widespread use.

This module is part of the OCA/account-invoicing project on GitHub.

You are welcome to contribute. To learn how please visit https://odoo-community.org/page/Contribute.