Approve or Reject an Invoice

Follow these steps to review AP unapproved invoices in the Vista Web portal from the Invoice Approval page.

A System Admin must enable the Invoice Review portal and configure your account's invoice review permissions.

Reviewers have the ability to approve, reject, and comment on invoices. With additional permissions, reviewers can code invoices, add line items, and add attachments.

  1. Select Approval > Invoice Review.
  2. Use the Company and Reviewer drop down menus to filter your grid. Alternatively, use the search bar to look up a specific vendor or reference number.
    Tip: Users may also see invoices for other HQ Reviewers if their VA user is listed on the Users tab on the HQ Reviewer in Vista. Select Show Only Invoices Awaiting My Sequence Approval to filter these invoices out.
  3. Select the green check mark or red X buttons to quickly Approve or Reject an invoice. Alternatively, select an invoice from the Invoice Approval grid to drill down to a more detailed view. Review the image below for a basic overview of the invoice drilldown.

    Field Description
    (A) Next Move to the next invoice in your Invoice Review grid. If there are no more invoices to review, this button will be grayed out and disabled.
    (B) Edit Hold Select a hold code for your invoice. These come from Vista HQ Hold Codes.
    (C) Review By Line Choose a review method:
    • Review By Invoice (default) allows reviewers to approve or reject the entire invoice.
    • Review By Line allows reviewers to approve or reject each line item separately.
    (D) History View the reviewer, date approved, date assigned, approval status, and notes for each line item.
    (E) Comments Add notes to the header of the invoice.
    (F) Approve / Reject Approve or reject the entire invoice.
    (G) Approve / Reject and move to next Approve or reject the entire invoice and move to the next invoice in your Invoice Review grid.
    (H) Edit

    Edit the line item.

    Note: If a field is hidden in Vista on the AP Line item level, it will not appear here in the Invoice Review grid.
    (I) Exclamation Point / ! Indicates that an item is associated with a PO or Subcontract and it is out of balance. Select Review Totals from the Edit dropdown button to see details.
    (J) Review Tools View the totals of any associated PO or Subcontract. For more information see Review Purchase Order or Subcontract Totals on an Invoice.
    (K) Add Note Add a note to the line item.
    (L) Copy Line Create a copy of the selected line.
    (M) Add New Item Add a new line item to this invoice.
    (N) Net Calculation View the calculation of the Gross, Tax, Misc and Retainage on the entire invoice.
    (O) Invoice Attachments Select which attachment you want to view.
    (P) Add Annotation Add text or a stamp to your invoice.
    (Q) Add Attachment Add another attachment to your invoice.
    (R) Status
    • If no action has been taken on an invoice, the status will show as Unapproved.
    • If one of the reviewers has approved the invoice, the status will show as In Progress.
    • If any reviewer has rejected the invoice, the status will show as Rejected.
    • If all reviewers in the review sequence have approved, the status will show Approved.
Approving an invoice automatically adds it to the queue of the next reviewer. Once all reviewers in a review sequence have approved an invoice, the invoice is added to the current invoice batch in Vista AP Batch Process.

Rejecting an invoice returns it to the queue of the previous reviewer in the review sequence with the flag Other Reviewer Rejected.