Customer
Customer: the one shared record of a customer - name, category, group, addresses, contacts, bank details and portal access - used by every company of the group.
Customer In Legal Entity
Customer In Legal Entity: create a customer and everything one company needs to sell to it - terms, credit, tax, pricing, sales structure, registrations and portal.
Release Customer In Legal Entity
Release Customer In Legal Entity: bring a customer the group already has into this company, and give it this company's terms, credit, tax and pricing.
Customer Group
Customer Group: groups customers, gives them default payment terms, and decides which registrations and address details each customer must have.
Payment Term
Payment Term: when a customer must pay - in one go or in instalments - which sets the due date and the payment schedule of every customer invoice.
Payment Method
Payment Method: how customers pay (cash, cheque, transfer, card) and which bank or cash account a collection by that method lands in.
Payment Schedule
Payment Schedule: a plan of instalments by interval or by percentage, kept for documents that use one.
Payment Day
Payment Day: the weekdays or dates of the month a customer pays on, kept as a list for reference.
Payment fee
Payment fee: charges deducted when a customer pays, such as bank or card fees, and the account each one posts to.
Adjustment Type
Adjustment Type: the kinds of small write-offs and differences a collection may book, each with its account.
Aging Period
Aging Period: the age buckets (0-30, 31-60 days and so on) the customer aging lists sort open invoices into.
Cost Element
Cost Element: the extra charges added to a sale on top of the goods - freight, insurance, handling, duties - how each is worked out and where it posts.
Cost Element Group
Cost Element Group: a name for a set of customers that get the same automatic charges.
Auto Cost Elements
Auto Cost Elements: rules that add charges to sales order lines by themselves, by customer, item, currency, site and delivery term.
Credit Area
Credit Area: one credit limit shared by a customer across every company of the group, checked when sales orders are saved.
Credit Rule
Credit Rule: which documents check a customer's credit, and whether a breach stops the document or asks to continue.
Competitor
Competitor: the companies you compete with, so their prices can be recorded against your items.
Tracking Number Group
Tracking Number Group: a kind of pre-printed number series, such as a receipt book, used to account for every receipt issued.
Tracking Number Setup
Tracking Number Setup: issue a series of receipt numbers to a person, mark spoiled ones void, and see on the list which number went on which collection.
Account Receivable Setting
Account Receivable Setting: one record per company that switches receivables options on and off - invoice line columns, collection tabs, customer tabs and field defaults.
Customer Invoice
Customer Invoice: bill a customer, either for goods and services already delivered from a sales order or as a free-text invoice against accounts, and post the receivable.
Customer Invoice Memo
Customer Invoice Memo: credit a customer - for returned goods, a price correction or a refund - and lower what it owes.
Collection
Collection: record money received from a customer - against its invoices, as an advance, against a sales order or a property bill - with withholding, fees and adjustments, and post it to the bank or cash account.
Customer Settlement
Customer Settlement: net a customer's open invoices against its open credit memos and advances without any money moving.
Batch Posting
Batch Posting: post many parked customer invoices, memos and collections at once.
Invoice Released
Invoice Released: send a batch of customer invoices to the tax authority's digital invoicing portal and keep the number it gives back.
Lists and reports
Every receivables list and printed report - customer balances, aging, ledgers, invoices, collections, sales analysis and print layouts - and the criteria each one asks for.