There is a common business practice that the company selling to customer branches, and the invoice is issued to the customer head office.
Microsoft Dynamics AX facilitate this requirements through the Invoice Account on customer master information, where the invoice account points to customer ID which the invoice will hit his/her balance whereas the sales order is directed to another customer ID.
Operationally the sales admin creates the sales order to the customer branch, and proceed the sales order till invoice. The invoice will hit the customer account which is placed in the Invoice Account.
Customer form, under invoice & delivery, invoice section, invoice account.
User group: DynamicsArabia
