AL Document Template

Overview

AL Document Template lets you run many kinds of sales and purchase documents side by side, each with its own configuration profile, without ever changing the single standard Sales & Receivables Setup or Purchases & Payables Setup. You define a template once - number series, posting options, warnings, price calculation, job-queue posting, archiving, Italian document fields - and every document created from it inherits that setup automatically. The chosen template travels on the document header and is carried through to the posted documents and ledger entries.

The app extends standard Business Central and composes over the free AppLibra base (AL Foundation App and AL Message Passing). It is also the shared base that several AppLibra apps use whenever they need to generate documents.

Key features

• Sales and purchase document templates - a full profile that mirrors the standard setup: complete number series, discount / credit-limit / stockout warnings, archiving, price calculation, and job-queue posting.
• One template field on every document type - quote, order, invoice, credit memo, blanket order and return, for both sales and purchase. The reference propagates to posted documents and to ledger entries.
• Italian document fields on the profile - fields such as Fattura PA Nos., VAT Exemption Nos. and Bank Receipts are configured per template.
• Documents with no accounting impact - flags No G/L Ledger Entry, Skip Create Inv. Document and Automatically Invoice let you produce simulated or proforma documents that do not post to the general ledger.
• No change to the standard setup - templates are per-document profiles that coexist with the single standard setup, so you add document flows without disturbing existing configuration.

Business benefits

• Handle many document flows - each with different numbering, posting and pricing rules - from one company setup.
• Keep documents consistent: create from a template and the numbering and posting options come with it, manually or from automation.
• Model simulated and proforma scenarios without accounting side effects.
• Give downstream AppLibra apps a single, uniform way to generate documents.

Typical scenarios

• A company that needs several order or invoice types, each with its own number series and posting behaviour, without splitting into multiple setups.
• Automated document creation from other apps (AL Logistic, AL Commission, AL Globe, and others) that must all follow a defined profile.
• Proforma or simulated documents that should look complete but must not touch the general ledger.

What makes it different

Standard Business Central gives you one Sales & Receivables Setup and one Purchases & Payables Setup per company. AL Document Template turns that single configuration into as many reusable profiles as you need, selectable per document, and adds no-G/L / simulated document support on top. The Italian fiscal localization is delivered separately by the companion app AL Document Template IT, which builds on this base.