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Contract Entry

Entering Payments

  • Create a Batch
  • Lookup Account
  • Apply Payment
  • Partial Payments
  • Posting
  • Payment History

Cash receipts are entered in batches to make it easy for multiple people to reconcile their own batches.  They are also entered in batches to create bank deposits and to reconcile that batch with the bank deposit slip.

Down payments are not entered here unless you use the "Calc Only DP" method.

Most down payments are entered when the sale is entered.

When the sales batch is posted, all down payments for that sales batch will get grouped together with the same batch number as the sales batch number.

● Click the New Button to create a new batch

● Click the "New Cash/Rec" button at the top right corner of the screen

You can look up the account by:

  • The persons Account Number

  • The persons Name

  • The Contract Number

Sometimes the payment gets handed to the Accounting Office before the Invoice is done.  We encourage this so that Sales Counselors do not carry the payments.  When this happens, you will get a message that "No open contracts were found.  Do you want to create an Open Credit?"  Go ahead and post the payment to that persons account. When the Contract is posted, you can apply the payment at that time.

 

 

● Fill in all the applicable information for that payment

● Type the Applied amount into the "Amt to Apply" field for that contract.

● Click to another field and then click Finished

 

If someone sends a single payment for multiple invoices, type the apply to for each invoice.

If you dont see one or more of the invoices on the list, Right Mouse Click to get the following options:

  • Search for another Contract (Enter the Contract number)

  • Search for another Person (look up a person by their name)

  • Search by Account Number (look up a person by their Account Number)

  • Search by Contract Status (You might need this option if a payment was sent in for a cancelled contract)

Keep adding Invoices to pay, until you have all of them.

If you are in the middle of entering a Receipt and want to go look at the persons account, click the Open Portfolio Button.

 

When all the payments are entered for your batch:

● Review the screen for Accuracy

● Click the Edit button, if there is an error and the payment needs to be edited

● Run Pre-post Report

● If everything is fine, click the Post button

When the payment posts:

it updates the paid amount for each item

Each payment that is due gets updated


Payment History is logged to show all payments that were posted to that Contract