Many A/P Bills are very similar to one another. Therefore, it would be really handy to be able to start with a copy of an existing Bill when you wanted to enter a new Vendor Invoice. Well, Simple Accounting lets you do exactly that and you can make an exact copy of any Vendor Bill whenever you like using the following these steps:

1. Locate the Vendor Bill to be cloned in the Bills Browse.

2. Press the Change or View button. This opens the A/P transaction.

3. Press the [Clone] button at the lower left of the A/P Bill Editing Window to create a new bill (with a new TRANSACTION ID and INVOICE DATE), but which is, in all other respects, identical to the original. This makes it easy to duplicate any transaction.

When you clone a vendor invoice, you must supply a unique invoice number for the cloned transaction.

When you clone a vendor invoice, the Location ID of the original invoice is retained. This is important if you are using Remote Office Extensions. It means that if you clone a vendor invoice created at a particular remote office, the cloned invoice acts as though it were created at the same location as the original, even though it may have been cloned at the main office. This allows you to enter bills from the main office for a remote location.