Opportunities: Settings

You can use and modify the settings on the Opportunities (CR304000) form to track the information related to the opportunity. You can do the following:

Copying of Settings from Contacts and Business Accounts to Opportunities

In MYOB Acumatica, contact and address settings are copied to an opportunity when you specify an account in the Business Account box in the Summary area of the Opportunities (CR304000) form. The contact information from the business account or contact specified in the Summary area of the Opportunities form is displayed on the Contact tab as read-only by default, but you can modify it if you select the Override check box on this tab.

Tip: If you modify the contact or address settings of a contact or business account associated with an opportunity on the Contacts (CR302000) or Business Accounts (CR303000) form, the settings displayed on the Contact tab of the Opportunities form will not be changed unless you select and then clear the Override check box on the Contact tab of the Opportunities form.

Also, if you select a different business account for an opportunity, the system replaces the existing contact settings specified on the Contact tab of the Opportunities form with the new settings of the contact associated with the newly selected business account.

The overriding of settings applies to all the settings on the Contact tab of the Opportunities form.

Shipping Settings in Opportunities

When you create an opportunity on the Opportunities (CR304000) form, the system searches for shipping settings in the following entities and populates the Ship-To Address section of the Shipping tab with the first data it finds:

  1. The project specified in the opportunity. If the Calculate Project-Specific Taxes check box on the General tab of the Projects Preferences (PM101000) form is selected, the data in the Ship-To Address section are copied from the project settings that are specified in the Project Address section on the Addresses tab of the Projects (PM301000) form.
  2. The location specified for the opportunity in the Location box of the Summary area. The system copies the information to the Ship-To Address section from the General tab of the Account Locations (CR303010) form.

To populate the data in other sections on the Shipping tab of the Opportunities form, the system copies the corresponding data from the General and Shipping tabs of the Account Locations form.

By default, the shipping settings populated by the system on the Shipping tab of the Opportunities form (in the Ship-To Address and Ship-To Info sections) are displayed as read-only, and the Override check boxes in these sections are cleared. If you select the Override check box in the corresponding section, you can modify its settings on the current form. If the system has inserted settings in the Tax Settings section and you change these settings, the applicable taxes are automatically recalculated for the opportunity on the Taxes tab if sales taxes have been configured in the system. For details, see Taxes.

If at least one Override check box is selected on the Shipping tab, and you change the business account specified in the Summary area of the Opportunities form, the system opens a dialog box that asks whether you want the contact or address settings of the opportunity to be replaced with the settings of the new business account. If you click No, you can keep the previously specified contact or address settings; in this case, the Override check box remains selected on the Shipping tab to indicate that these settings of the opportunity differ from those of the contact, business account, or location selected in the Summary area.

Tip: If you use the Account Locations or Customer Locations form at a later time to modify the contact or address settings for the location specified for an opportunity, the system does not change the settings on the Shipping tab of the Opportunities form unless you select and then clear the Override check box in the appropriate section on the Shipping tab of the Opportunities form.

Shipping Settings in Quotes, Sales Orders, and Invoices

The shipping settings specified for an opportunity on the Opportunities (CR304000) form are copied to any sales order, invoice, or quote that you create based on that opportunity.

If a primary quote exists for an opportunity, the shipping settings specified for the primary sales quote on the Shipping tab of the quote are synchronized with the shipping settings specified for the opportunity on the Shipping tab of the opportunity in both directions.

On the Opportunities form, if you modify the shipping settings specified for an opportunity that is already associated with a sales order, invoice, or non-primary sales quote, the changes you have made to the opportunity will not be reflected in the settings of the associated document. Similarly, changes in the shipping settings specified for a sales order, invoice, or non-primary sales quote are not reflected in the settings of the associated opportunity.