Accounts Receivable

Accounts Receivable 5.4 Features:

Process a refund for customers using the Customer Refunds feature and specify the payment method – check, cash, or credit card.
Enter receipts with different currencies in a single batch.
Track credit card payments received from your customers.
Specify if you want to automatically post General Ledger journal entry batches created from Accounts Receivable.
Allow Project and Job Costing Fixed Price projects to be billed using a summary or item invoice.
Update Bank Services with deposit and receipt information.
Automatically calculate taxes on miscellaneous receipts and update the Tax Tracking report.
Automatically carry forward descriptions and comments from invoice detail lines using the quick entry mode.
Choose to include or exclude prepayments when printing the Aged Trial Balance report.
Check a customer’s credit based on pending transactions in both Accounts Receivable and Order Entry plus their aged transactions.
Print labels for the customer’s ship-to location.
Designate a multicurrency rounding account.
Create recurring invoices which include item details, comments, and tax information.
Create default tax groups, tax classes, salespeople and statement options for groups of customers.
Specify a default inventory location for the customer so that goods are shipped from the nearest warehouse location.
Automatically use the customer’s salesperson information when setting up a new ship-to location for the customer.
Assign a single deposit slip to multiple receipt batches.
Post multiple invoices, adjustment, receipt, and refund batches simultaneously.
Save the selections you make to view transactions within Customer Activity (e.g. Order By) so that they can be used as defaults.
Easily write-off small overpayments by adjusting the receipt in Adjustments.
Clear inactive recurring charges using the Delete Inactive Records form.
Change the accounts within an account set even when the account set is in use by a customer.
Choose to automatically apply a receipt to the transactions of open item customers.
Make a customer inactive even when there are active recurring charges.
Assign a member of a national account a different account set than the national account.
Print the Batch Listing report from the transaction entry forms.
Easily view and enter customer comments and capture comment dates.
Enter recurring charges that total to a zero amount.
Use new security options to allow authorized users to change customer credit information.
Print a receipt document for receipt, prepayment, unapplied cash, and miscellaneous receipt transactions.
Print statements for open item customers that show only those documents that have had activity since the last statement.
View Year-to-Date statistics for the Customer and the Customer Group.
Automatically prohibit a customer from being deleted or set to inactive if there are unposted documents.
Automatically prohibit a ship-to location from being deleted or set to inactive if there are unposted documents.
Enter and post unapplied prepayments.
Record advance credit claims in Receipt Entry. *
Print ANSI compliant refund checks for the U.S. and Canada.
Allow multiple users to add entries to the same batch at the same time.
Perform Data Integrity checks for subsets of AR data.
Void a check from the Refund Entry screen.

Accounts Receivable 5.3 enables you to:

Define and use all the optional fields and values you require within your receivables system. The new Transaction Analysis and Optional Field Creator application is required.
Print additional subtotals on the Aged Trial Balance and Aged Retainage reports. If your company is multicurrency, the report will now print a subtotal if the primary sort order is Customer Group, Account Set, Billing Cycle or National Account.
Print letters and labels for all customers regardless of account aging.
Print the Customer Transactions report using a fiscal year and period range.
Send statements, letters and invoices to your customer or contact fax numbers. The Delivery Method for Customers and National Accounts now includes additional selections for fax and contact fax numbers. Sage Accpac requires Messenger to send documents by fax.
View the original document number for Retainage Invoices in Receipt Entry.
View your customer receipts by bank range, customer range, receipt status (outstanding, cleared, returned, or all statuses), transaction type (unapplied cash, prepayment, receipt, or all types), date range, year and period range, and receipt number range using the new Receipt Inquiry window. You can now easily view receipt information without first determining the bank or the customer numbers. Simply enter a receipt number and the receipt information is automatically displayed. If additional information is needed, you can drill down to the original receipt. If you require a printed listing of your customer receipts based on the criteria specified, simply click on the Print button.

Accounts Receivable 5.2 features:

Track, calculate and automatically retain a portion of an invoice, credit note or debit note. Retainage accounting is widely used in the construction industry to allow customers to confirm that they are satisfied with the quality of workmanship or goods received before issuing full payment.
Create both item and summary invoices within a single batch.
Specify whether an invoice detail is discountable to allow miscellaneous charges such as freight to be excluded from any discount.
Exceed the original discount amount specified on the invoice when processing a receipt.
Post a receipt with a negative, unapplied balance (debit balance) that can be paid later.
Track unapplied amounts with the original receipt. In previous versions, an unapplied cash document was created for any unapplied amounts on a receipt. Now, the unapplied amount remains with the original receipt for complete control and audit purposes.
Easily view transaction details with the enhancements in the Customer Activity window. You can view:

Receipts on the Transactions page.
Pending receipt amounts for transactions.
The amount owing and discount available for each multi-payment schedule for invoice transactions.
The transactions for all members of National Account Customers.

Include receipt transactions when printing the Customer Transactions Report.

Accounts Receivable 5.1 features:

Specify the default invoice type (summary or item).
Specify the default for Calculate Tax in Invoice Entry.
Specify the default receipt type in Receipt Entry.
Use enhanced customer options.

Maintain separate numbers for the customer and the contact in your customer records using new telephone and fax numbers for the customer's contact.
Send statements and invoices to your customer's billing address, customer's e-mail address or contact's e-mail address using the delivery method.
Specify for each customer whether to allow a partial shipment of items using the Allow Partial Shipments option. Partially ship items for only those customers that allow partial shipments.
Set up your customers for shopping on the Web through ACCPAC eTransact using the Allow Web Store Shopping option.
Specify the default for each receipt you enter for the customer using the receipt type.

Use new e-mail, contact e-mail, contact telephone number and contact fax number fields for ship-to locations and national accounts.
Take advantage of enhanced statement and invoice printing.

Maintain complete statement details and reprint your statements at any time.
Print statements, letters and invoices using each customer's delivery method or the current print destination.
Create messages that you can use when sending statements and invoices to your customers by e-mail using the new e-mail Messages form. Specify a code for adding information specific to the customer or your company.
Print statements using the pre 5.1 forms if you have customized statement forms.

Show tax details when printing the Invoice Batch Listing Report.
Easily reconcile customer accounts by entering a zero receipt amount.
Print payment schedule information on invoice forms.
Benefit from support for the fiscal year and period specified in Bank Services when returning a customer's receipt.
Use the enhanced document numbering for restricting the length of document numbers automatically assigned by Accounts Receivable.
Take advantage of the enhanced performance for clearing fully paid documents.


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