Vendor Card — Centara fields

BC page: Vendor Card · Search: “Vendor Card” Standard BC documentation: Microsoft Learn — Register New Vendors

This page documents only the Centara additions to the standard Business Central Vendor Card. Standard BC fields (Name, Vendor Posting Group, Payment Terms, etc.) are documented on Microsoft Learn — start there for anything not listed below.

The Centara eMessaging extension adds an E-Document Posting Setup group to the card; connectors layer additional fields on top.

Centara eMessaging additions

The E-Document Posting Setup group ties this vendor to an e-document posting template and the default approval users.

Field	What it controls
Posting Template	Default posting template applied to inbound e-documents from this vendor. The template controls account, dimensions, deferral, and per-vendor posting rules — see Vendor Posting Template. Leave blank to fall back to the global setup.
Do Not Delete PO	When enabled, the linked Purchase Order is preserved after Update Purchase Order line And Post runs. Use this when downstream processes (receiving, warranty tracking) still need the PO. Overrides the global Delete Purchase Order after Posting setting for this vendor.
Default Approver	Default user that receives approval requests for documents from this vendor. Used when the global setup is configured to use individual approvers. Falls back to the global default approver if blank.
Default Workflow User Group	Default approval user group for documents from this vendor. Used when the global setup is configured to use user-group approvals. Falls back to the global default group if blank.

The card also gains a Vendor Accounting Cost Setup action under the Vendor navigation group (also promoted to the Navigate category) which opens the per-vendor accounting cost configuration — see Vendor Accounting Cost Setup.

Wise Approvals Connector additions

When the Centara eMessaging Connector for Wise Approvals is installed, the standard Receive E-Document To field is hidden and replaced with a connector-aware version:

Field	What it controls
Receive E-Document To	Default purchase document generated from a received e-document. In addition to Purchase Order and Purchase Invoice, this version adds Approvals as an option — inbound documents are routed straight to the Wise Approvals workflow rather than turned into a BC purchase document. Corrective documents always become Credit Memos regardless of the selection.

LS Central additions

The Centara eMessaging for LS Central connector adds:

Field	What it controls
Receives Retann	Indicates that this vendor can receive RETANN (return announcement) messages from LS Central. Enable for vendors that participate in the LS Central return flow.

How Centara reads this card

When sending an outbound purchase order, Centara picks the vendor’s identifier from this card in a fixed priority: GLN first (if populated), then Registration Number, then VAT Registration No. — combined with the country’s VAT Scheme. Unlike the Customer side, the Vendor side has no “Use GLN in Electronic Document” toggle: if GLN is filled, it is used.

See How outbound documents are routed for the full logic and what to set in which scenario.

See also

• How outbound documents are routed
• Vendor Posting Template
• Vendor Accounting Cost Setup
• Purchases & Payables Setup — Centara fields
• Microsoft Learn — Register New Vendors — standard BC fields