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title: "Execute maintenance"
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# Execute maintenance

As maintenance activities are completed, you can record maintenance costs against a particular work order. Record these costs through journals or purchase documents. Because a work order is associated with a specific asset, maintenance costs are also posted to the asset's maintenance ledger.

In addition to maintenance costs, you can specify the action taken for a specific work order, then mark it as completed.

The following table describes a sequence of activities, with links to the topics that describe them. These activities are listed in the order in which they are generally performed.

| To | See |
| --- | --- |
| Learn about recording different maintenance costs (such as labor, material, and contract costs) for a work order. | [Maintenance costs](/business-central/docs/bc-maintenance-costs) |
| Enter and post one or more lines in a labor journal. | [Fill in and post labor journals](/business-central/docs/bc-fill-in-and-post-labor-journals) |
| Enter and post one or more lines in a material journal. | [Fill in and post material journals](/business-central/docs/bc-fill-in-and-post-material-journals) |
| Enter and post one or more lines in a contract journal. | [Fill in and post contract journals](/business-central/docs/bc-fill-in-and-post-contract-journals) |
| Use the **Maintenance Journal** page to post labor, material, and contract costs in a single journal. | [Fill in and post maintenance journals](/business-central/docs/bc-fill-in-and-post-maintenance-journals) |
| Enter and post a maintenance cost on a purchase document. | [Post maintenance costs from a purchase document](/business-central/docs/bc-post-maintenance-costs-from-a-purchase-document) |
| Set a work order to complete to indicate that the related maintenance activity has been performed. | [Complete a work order](/business-central/docs/bc-complete-a-work-order) |

## Related

- [Maintenance costs](/bc-maintenance-costs.md)
- [Post maintenance costs from a purchase document](/bc-post-maintenance-costs-from-a-purchase-document.md)
- [Fill in and post labor journals](/bc-fill-in-and-post-labor-journals.md)
- [Fill in and post material journals](/bc-fill-in-and-post-material-journals.md)
- [Fill in and post contract journals](/bc-fill-in-and-post-contract-journals.md)
- [Fill in and post maintenance journals](/bc-fill-in-and-post-maintenance-journals.md)
- [Complete a work order](/bc-complete-a-work-order.md)
- [Maintenance management](/bc-maintenance-management.md)