# How to Close a Job Order in SyteLine > Source: https://netray.co/erp-help/syteline-how-to-close-job-order > Publisher: Netray (netray.co), AI and integration engineering for ERP and manufacturing systems. > Section: ERP Help ## Short answer Close a job order from Production > Job Orders once every routing operation is reported complete and the finished quantity has been received, then run Close Jobs to post the remaining WIP balance to variance and lock the job from further transactions. ## Kind how-to ## System syteline ## Erp Infor SyteLine (CloudSuite Industrial) ## Module Production / Job Orders ## Query How do I close a job order in SyteLine? ## Alternate Queries - SyteLine job order won't close - close production job SyteLine - SyteLine job order close checklist - CSI job status complete vs closed ## Applies To SyteLine 8.x/9.x, CloudSuite Industrial (CSI) 10.x-11.x, Mongoose and classic UI ## Steps ### Close a job order in SyteLine **Items:** - Confirm every routing operation on the Job Routings tab shows Complete with no open Qty Remaining. - Confirm all required material has been issued: check the Job Material tab for any line still showing a Qty to Issue. - Report any final labor or machine time that was not already posted through backflush or a labor ticket. - Receive the final finished-good quantity into inventory through Job Receipts, matching the job order quantity. - Set the job order status to Complete on the Job Orders form once the received quantity satisfies the order. - Run Production > Job Orders > Close Jobs (the job cost close utility) to post the job's remaining WIP balance to material, labor, and burden variance accounts. - Review the Job Cost Variance report for that job before confirming the close, since a closed job cannot be reopened for normal transactions. - Confirm the job no longer appears on the WIP inventory valuation report once the close has posted. ## Sections ### The status flow: Released, Complete, Closed **Body:** A job order moves through three practical states. Released means it is open on the shop floor and material/labor can post against it. Complete means the physical work is done and the finished quantity has been received, but the WIP balance is still sitting open in the general ledger. Closed means the Close Jobs process has run, posted the remaining WIP to variance accounts, and locked the job from further routine transactions. Sites that leave jobs sitting in Complete status for weeks or months without closing them end up with WIP valuation reports that overstate open production, because the dollars for finished work have not actually been moved out yet. ### Why a job order refuses to close **Body:** The close utility checks that the job is genuinely finished before it will post. The most common blockers are an outstanding material issue quantity still sitting on the Job Material tab, a routing operation that still shows an open quantity remaining, a job receipt that has not been posted for the full order quantity, or the job being referenced as a supply job for another still-open job order. Working the blockers in that order (material, routing, receipt, dependent jobs) resolves the vast majority of jobs that resist closing without needing to dig into the underlying IDO relationships by hand. ### What the close actually posts to the GL **Body:** Closing a job compares the actual material, labor, burden, and overhead cost consumed by the job against the standard cost the job was estimated at when it was released, and posts the difference to the corresponding variance accounts. This is the same standard cost basis that Cost Rollup maintains, so a job closed shortly after a rollup can show variance driven purely by the cost basis changing mid-job rather than actual production performance. Because the close posts real dollars to the GL, most sites review the Job Cost Variance report line by line before confirming a batch close, rather than closing jobs automatically as soon as they hit Complete status. ## Pitfalls - Closing a job before backflush material has fully posted leaves phantom negative on-hand quantity behind. - Bulk-closing a backlog of old Complete jobs at year-end dumps a large, unexplained variance into a single GL period. - A job used as a supply job for another open job order resists closing until the dependent job is handled first. - Reporting labor after a job is closed requires a correcting transaction, not a reopen of the original job. - Jobs sitting in Complete status for extended periods overstate WIP on inventory valuation reports even though production is physically finished. - Assuming Complete status alone relieves WIP dollars; only the Close Jobs process actually posts the variance. ## Ai Angle When a job order refuses to close, ERPray can trace the exact blocker - an open routing operation, an unissued material line, a linked supply job - across the SyteLine relationships in one answer, instead of a planner clicking through several tabs on the Job Orders form to find it. ## Faq ### Can I close a job order with a partial receipt? **Answer:** Yes, but the cost tied to the unreceived quantity still posts to variance at close, so it is worth reviewing the open quantity on the job before closing a partial job so the resulting variance is expected rather than a surprise. ### What is the difference between "Complete" and "Closed" on a job order? **Answer:** Complete means production work is finished and the quantity has been received into inventory. Closed means the job cost close process has actually posted the remaining WIP balance to variance accounts and locked the job from further transactions. ### Why does my job still show WIP dollars after I marked it Complete? **Answer:** Complete status does not post any variance by itself. Only the Close Jobs process moves the remaining WIP balance out of the WIP account, so a job can sit in Complete status with real WIP dollars still on the books until it is closed. ### Can a closed job order be reopened? **Answer:** Not through standard transactions. Most sites create a correcting job order or a manual GL journal entry to handle activity discovered after close, rather than trying to force the original job back open. ## Search terms syteline close job order, syteline job won't close, csi job order status complete vs closed, syteline wip variance, close jobs utility syteline, syteline job cost close, infor syteline production job status, syteline job order backflush, syteline reopen closed job --- Talk to an engineer: https://netray.co/contact?intent=erp_ai | Machine catalog: https://netray.co/agent/catalog.json