Overview

Your company as a business entity in the system and the impact the settings have on the system.

See Setting up new Companies for best practice steps to setup an new business entity.

Reports

The information on Host Company is used in reports - for example debtor invoices.  

Eg company name, ABN, Bank Details, web address, logos, company address etc.

Signature image for PDF's

A signature file is an Attachment on host company with key "Signature"

Sales Channels

Sales Channels are used on Customers and can be used to analyse sales

Divisions / Departments

Are used on Journals to enable department based reporting

Sales / Credits / Stop Supply Section

1. Cash sale entity code is the default cash sale debtor
2. Minimum GP% and Target Markup is used to:
   1. colour prices on price lists below the minimum amount
   2. Can alert managers to sales orders below minimum GP%
3. Auto Allocate invoices - used when a payment is entered and will allocate the oldest invoices to the payment
4. Auto off credit hold - removes customers and orders from hold (only those on hold due to debt) when a payment removes the hold requirement
5. Max Debtor write-off adjustment - allows users with Secure Features to write off small amounts - see Getting orders off hold and out the door#Savethepaymentandupdatetheallocations
6. Max Creditor write off adjustment - allows users with Secure Features to write off small amounts - Supplier Invoices and Payments#SmallAmountWriteoffs
7. Fee service - determines the service to be added to the invoice for cheque payment charge

Booking Services and Fees

Host Company Profile Settings

Used to turn on or turn off functionality for the Host Company

1. New Debtors Require Approval - will limit the creation of debtors to users with Secure Features
2. Geo Locate Entities - all addresses when saved will be geolocated with Lat Long so can be viewed on maps.  Note only valid addresses that can be found by Google will be located
3. Require PIN ConfirmAnonymousRego - 
4. Claim Fuel Tax Credits
5. AutoRound Generated invoices - Auto-rounds where the payment method is cash 
6. Allow Pending Refunds
7. Department mandatory on expense journals - self explainatory
8. Enforce branch on orderless debtor journals - will not be able to save the journal unless each line has a branch
9. New Entities must have contact detail = either a phone number or email address before can save them
10. Nightly - defer unfinished scheduled events
11. Weekly: Calculate raw sales data - creates a table used by the forecasting tool of each week of sales
12. Daily - send bookings digest
13. Use perpetual financial document numbering - alternatively can have it reset each month or each year and use the month / year in the number
14. I sell primarily to businesses (distributor) - changes the default from Markup to Gross Profit as default in price lists, sets sell price as incGST
15. Email remittance advices - will automatically email remittance advices when saved
16. Nightly: Email Statements - will email statements required by Stop Supply process

Entity and Debtor Profiling

Used to add flags to the Customer /Supplier in the system.

Standard Entity Profiles - add to Company and Person

1. Route Stop - used to indicate this business is one that a route (eg bus route) picks up or drops off at
2. Booking Hub - Indicates an organisation that may take bookings on your behalf
3. Common Pickup/Dropoff - does not require a booking in order for the vehicle to stop
4. 3rd Party - Not directly related to your business - an entity that you may contact eg tradesperson or worksite

Standard Debtor / Creditor Profiles

1. Is distributor - allows forecasting to remove from sales projections
2. Is Courier - indicates this organisation will be in the list of couriers
3. Provides Leads - will be in the list of leads to enable reporting about the leads they provide
4. Is key Account - key accounts never get put on stop supply, 
5. is Broker / Transport - will be in the list of transport entities tracked on purchase orders
6. Requires order confirmation - Orders will go on hold and need to be released - Stop Supply (also known as Credit Hold) and Sales Order Hold Status
7. No Volume Discount - removes ability to get price list volume discount auto applied
8. Regional
9. POD - IF proof of delivery will be required on sales orders
10. Delegation Partner - The entities that work can be delegated to (Jobs or Orders)
11. Do not auto-allocate trading term credits - where trading terms result in a credit some organisations like to specify where the credit is to be applied
12. Do not auto-email credit notes - credit notes are emailed automatically
13. Places Bulk Orders - orders to be removed from forecasting projections

Misc

1. Misc creditors code - where an transaction does not have a know creditor
2. Expenses creditor entry - a general creditor for expenses with no known creditor
3. Booking / Franchise prefix - used to prefix bookings / order numbers when a franchise network exists
4. Normal opening and closing time - used to default start times / end times
5. Default warehouse - used after checking customer, sales rep, person entering order default warehouses
6. External Reference - used were an external system has a code to indicate the ABN it is dealing with
7. Standard delivery charge - default where no other delivery calculation is found
8. CC payments - the service used to charge for credit card use to customer

Branches and Loans

Branches

Branches is used for organisations that want to manage using states of Australia

Branches are used to:

1. Filter views of data - example employees can be limited to their branch
2. Default values on transactions - enables profit and loss by branch

Delivery charges can be per branch

Loan Accounts

See Loans Between Trading Entities

Images or Reports Tab

Images to be used on transactions and print templates.

• Print templates
  • A print template defines the layout of the report generated for a journal type.
  • The print template must be built by an our developer before it can be assigned to a journal type.

  • Print templates can be attached to emails that are sent from the system - see Entering Email Templates

    When the system is looking for a report to use it looks in the following order:

    1. The report name (eg invoice.mrt) prefixed by the search code of the host company, eg SOULFRESinvoice.mrt or KARMAinvoice.mrt
    2. The report name prefixed by the host company Report Prefix, eg SFinvoice.mrt
    3. The report name with no prefix, eg invoice.mrt
• Journal Type
  • The type of journal that the template applies to.
    • Description ::A description of the use of the template.
    • Template ::The file name of the print template. This will be provided by the our developer.
    • Trigger Account ::is the account that will trigger the email to be sent

Email Footer

Default email footer to be added to all emails sent out from the system that have the default footer ticked - see Entering Email Templates

Profile or Contact Tab

Profile Values

Contact Methods

• Can create a list of contact methods that will be used on prints and emails from the system using Contact Types

Bank Accounts

see - Creating and Managing Bank Accounts

System Customisation Tab

Report Prefix - Alternative report prefix 

Invoice Sequence Digits used 

Templates

Templates used by journals instead of the default templates.  Trigger account is not mandatory.

Debtor and Creditor Aging

• Enter the number of days for each of the 3 Aging buckets normally 30,60,90 days

Merchant Details

• Merchant Username for online credit card processing
• Merchant Password for online credit card processing
• Invoice Prefix is custom prefix of invoice documents across all Debtor Invoices (Default is INV)

Web Customisation Tab

Used to change content on the Webstore.

• Profile to give subscribers - if you have anonymous transactions turned (turned on by our) and an entity subscribes (allowing you to send them emails) you can default a /wiki/spaces/SI/pages/33054915
• Role to give subscribers as above for a Role to allow login access
• Footer to add to all outbound emails allows a standard footer you can select on email templates
• Instructions to display on your anonymous subscribe page is global for each host company

Custom Invoice Footer for each debtor invoice and will be used if required when our build your invoice layout

Stock or Sales Tab

• Cash sale entity code is a default business entity code to attribute all cash sales
• Custom sales order class is maintained by our for customisation of your sales order process 

Freight Defaults

Note that "Freight" is considered third party however "Delivery" is considered to be done by your Host Company

• Apply standard delivery charge is the charge when no other charges have been calculated
• Min order units is to avoid a delivery charge. This uses the notional units field from the article master as the UOM.
• Min order amount is a dollar amount minimum for an order to avoid a delivery charge (note this is different to a freight charge)

Defaults

• Default Ambient and Chilled Return bay is the bay that is used when returns are done
• Default Warehouse is the default used across the system