We currently cannot make all Managed items Unmanaged. All audit history and traceability of the material item would disappear. Unmanaged items are more error prone as edits can be easily made, and the value of inventory is not tracked on the balance sheet. It is on our roadmap to have the functionality to "invoice in advance" then complete the order later.
The issue at present is that to invoice the customer, is when the stock is expensed to cost of goods sold. If we don't have the cost value of a managed item, then we cannot invoice it out. To work around this, would it be possible to export the payable invoice as a draft? This means you can receipt the stock in first, then reconcile with the supplier invoice later. The only issue with this is that the cost of the goods from the supplier may be different than the cost of you initially ordered them from on the PO.
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