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Introduction

This document provides instructions to allow the Add Transactions routine of the Accounts Receivable system to default the eligible discount amount from the last month-end update for a balance-forward account

when

. When a payment

is

gets entered

that

, the system brings the sum of the current month’s payments

for the current month

plus an eligible discount to meet the customer’s total due

for the customer

.

Procedure

Custom Configuration

From the Optifacts main menu:

Type Select Option 3 – Editor Utilities and press enterEnter.

Type Select Option 6 - Configuration Editor

Type Select Option 6 - Edit custom configuration

The Custom Configuration Editor will displaydisplays.

• Add the custom configuration exactly precisely, as shown in the following diagram.

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• Press Escape to save the data.
• Type "E" Press “E” to exit the form.

Add Transaction

Once this configuration is in place, when entering you enter payments through the following menu options:

Select Option 1 - Accts/Receivable and press Enter.

Select Option 1 - Daily Routines and press Enter.

Select Option 1 - Add Transactions and press Enter.

The system will then ask asks you if you’d like to enter the eligible discount amount at the time when you enter a payment that puts the paid amount for the month equal to or greater than the amount due, less the eligible discount amount.

In the example below, the customer owes $150.00 and has a $20.00 eligible discount.   At the time When the $130.00 payment is entered, the system will ask asks if you’d like to follow with the $20.00 eligible discount to make it easy to apply the discount amount.Image Removed

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