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Your GL in SaaSplications should be a lot simpler than your old system - as you will not need to rely on the GL for so much reporting as in other systems.

Export your GL from your

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previous system

If it does not have a column for Account code - make one up for the import process.

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Note
  1. You must do them in increasing date order - otherwise the resulting journal will not be correct.
  2. You can cross financial years without any concern - Retained Earnings is NOT a journal in our system - it is a calculated value.

If Splitting a GL account

When splitting a GL account into multiple new accounts

  1. Import the last trial balance
  2. After this create the journal between the trial balance import and the new GL account for the partial amount

Example - Deposits for suppliers on Purchase Orders

Suppliers sometimes require a deposit.  SaaSplications will create a deposit invoice and match the deposit invoice and then later credit that amount on the final PO invoice.

It is common that other systems do not handle this elegantly - and may simply have payments they expect accounts to manage or set aside.

In this case - importing the transactions will create the Deposit Payment AND the Deposit Invoice as a matched pair.  Hence some funds will need to be moved from Accounts Payable to the new control account "Supplier Deposits" after the import of the trial balance.

Step-by-step guide example of creating journals

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