Permanently Retain Contract Retainage to an account



Description of Issue

An Invoice was paid using a contract and a check was cut. The Invoice had Contract retainage that needs to be permanently retained. Where do users permanently retain retainage?

Context
  • Munis
  • Accounts Payable
Cause

New functionality to user

Resolution
  1. On the Munis main menu, navigate to Financials > Accounts Payable > Vendor Processing > Contract Retainage
  2. Click Define, and enter the Check Dates and Contract number that retainage is being released for, and then click Accept
  3. The Totals section will display the Records and Remaining Retainage
  4. At the top of screen, select Permanently Retain
  5. On the next screen, click Update and choose the amount and account that you want the retained monies to be applied to
  6. Click Accept, and then click Generate
Additional Information

This will create a General Journal entry that needs to be posted to finish permanently retaining the monies

If you need to release Contract Retainage to a vendor instead, the instructions are here: Release Contract Retainage to Vendor