Episode 351: What To Do When Your Company Wants to Do Business With An Inactive Vendor

Putting the AP in hAPpy

A vendor in your vendor master file is inactive – and for good reason, because the last time your company paid that vendor was four years ago. Now your company wants to use that vendor again – don’t just change the status that can lead to failed payments and bad vendor data. Why and what should you do instead? `

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Links mentioned in the podcast + other helpful resources:

• Training Session: Build a Substitute W-9 Form to Combine Your Vendor Setup Form and IRS Form W-9 https://training.debrarrichardson.com/course/substitute-irs-w9
• Training Session: Build a Substitute W-8BEN and W-8BEN-E Form
• Free On-Demand Webinar: 8 Steps to Clean Your Vendor Master File https://training.debrarrichardson.com/course/cleanup
• Free Download: Vendor Validation Reference List with Resource Links https://debrarrichardson.com/vendor-validation-download
• Customized Vendor Validations Session: https://debrarrichardson.com/vendor-validation-session
• Vendor Process Training Center - https://training.debrarrichardson.com
• Customized Fraud Training: https://training.debrarrichardson.com/customized-fraud-training
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• Vendor Master File Clean-Up: https://www.debrarrichardson.com/cleanup
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