NetSuite: Discounts not automatically applying for payment terms and payment batch file generation

Creation date: 30/09/2025 17:23    Updated: 01/10/2025 07:08   discount electronic payments bundle netsuite payment terms

When a payment term has a discount associated with it, the discount should automatically apply if the payment is made before the expiry date of the discount


In this example, if the payment is made before the 30th, the2% discount should be applied.

On the 29th of September, the bill payment screen:


The discount is not automatically calculated on the EFT screen

This is due to the ability for transactions to automatically have discounts applied on the EFT screen being an enhancement request

 


To allow the bill payments, with the discounts, to be bundled together in a payment batch, use the ‘Generate Bill Payment’ option

The out of the box saved search is faulty. This needs to be recreated as editing the existing search does not work.

The order of the fields needs to be EXACT for the search to work.

The results columns don’t matter in so much as the criteria is what drives whether the search throws an error or not

Replace the default search with the newly created search and click the generate file button