In SAP Business One, you can save most documents as drafts. This lets you change and process them before adding them to the database as regular documents. This may be required because a document is only partially filled out and it will be completed later. Or perhaps someone knows how to fill out one part of the document but needs help from someone else to finish another part. Document drafts can also be used as templates for documents that must be filled out over and over again with minor changes.

A draft document triggers neither a posting that changes quantities or values in the stock nor changes in the accounting system for an invoice.

You can save the following types of documents as drafts:

You can also generate and display a list of drafts according to your specifications, enabling you to choose whether to delete, update, or add certain drafts.

This article will demonstrate drafts in a scenario:  Your business wants to create a sales order document draft with a selection of items on it to enable fast order taking on a Fall promotion.

 

To setup the Sales Order Draft document, Go To Sales – A/R > Sales Order

 

 

 

Enter a Customer Number

 

Enter Item numbers, Quantity and Unit Price. (3)

Right Click and Save as Draft

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To add a Sales Order from a Draft Document, Go To > Sales – A/R > Sales Reports > Document Drafts Report (5)

 
Select user All, Check Sales – A/R and Sales Orders.  Click OK (6)

Click on Golden Arrow next to Document Number (7)

 
Enter a different Customer Code, Click No to update document rows according to new BP’s data

Enter a Posting Date and Delivery Date. Click Yes to update the existing table rows with the new delivery date.

 
Make changes to Line Items as needed.  Click Add

Sales Order is added