Business partner status

The business partner status determines if you can create sales orders, shipments, invoices, and make payments to a business partner. The following business partner statuses exist:

• Active
• Inactive
• Prospect

In addition, for an invoice-to business partner you can set the status to Doubtful. Sales orders from business partners with this status can be blocked, depending on the selection of the various blocking parameters in the Sales Parameters (tdsls0100s000) session.

For more information, refer to Business Partner Status.

When you carry out a transaction with a business partner, LN checks the statuses of the following business partners, in this order:

• The business partner role
• The business partner master data
• The parent business partner

You can only carry out the transaction if all statuses permit the transaction at the current date and time.

From and To dates

For the business partner statuses Active and Prospect you can specify From and To dates. The status is only valid between these two dates.

If the period that you defined in the From and To fields is expired, the actual status of the business partner becomes Inactive. You cannot use the business partner anymore, for example, to create sales orders.