Available in Sage 50 Premium Accounting and higher.

Originating Transactions

An originating transaction is a transaction type that is associated with serialized inventory. Originating transactions initially add serialized items to your inventory. For example when you purchase serialized items from a vendor and add them to your inventory, that is considered an originating transaction.

The transaction type is determined by whether the quantity is positive or negative. Since you can enter negative quantities on some task windows, we will describe in detail what constitutes an originating transaction.

The table below shows which quantity value and task window will create an originating transaction.

Quantity	In this window
positive quantity	Purchases/Receive Inventory
positive quantity	Payments
positive quantity	Inventory Adjustments
positive quantity	Inventory Beginning Balances
N/A-only positive quantities accepted	Build Assemblies
negative quantity	Vendor Credit Memo
N/A-only positive quantities accepted	Work Tickets (Sage 50 Quantum Accounting)