Put Purchase Receipt On Hold

The state on hold is related to doing quality assurance when receiving goods. So when you say that the quality control failed (Quality assured = NO) then you have 2 options for the status of the purchase receipt:

• Mark as received
• Put on hold

If put on hold, the purchase receipt is basically "closed" in a "not-received" status and can no longer be marked as received, but you can then create a new receipt from all on-hold receipts for that particular purchase order.

Consider this scenario: "We received 10 items but they were defect. However we are not sending them back but we will wait for another shipment from our supplier and mark the defect goods as 'on hold'."