Hi Steve,

What default GL account is assigned to the vendor, on the Accounting tab? I presume it is the account with the undesired department.

At the current time, the setting in the Payables company profile for 'Validate ledger account' only applies to batch entry and not defining a default to a vendor. Thus the default GL account on vendors must be valid.

Also there is no setting to override the department on new distributions to blank.

Which means your only option (for how it works today) is to have a GL account defined with no department, and assign that as the default to the vendor. And then when a new invoice is created for this vendor, the account will be populated and the department will be blank, and can then be selected.

I can also appreciate that this may not be a desirable method of configuring GL accounts, but it would be the only possible way with what is currently shipping.