Overview
Used to group together journals for different reasons in the system eg:
- Create an ABA file to send to the bank for Creditor Payments
- Note batch must be of direct deposits and must chose a bank account to get this option on the action menu.
- A single payment on your bank statement relates to multiple records you can batch them together to match your bank reconciliation
- eg: used to batch together credit card payments for the day
- A delivery run groups COGS journals to more easily report on results
- A driver has collected cash from multiple customers and links then together in Banking Batches
- A driver has collected credit card payment slips and they need to be grouped together for counting total takings by the driver
- Adhoc grouping of journal batches to more easily manipulate them in the system Batches may be created in other places in the system
- Bulk Pay Suppliers Creates batches in order to group payments ready to create an ABA file and also to group cheque payments
- Banking Batches creates batches to group items that may appear as a single payment line (Eg Cash Sales) on a Bank Reconciliation
How to use the Payment Batches
When Reviewing
- Navigate to Batch Locator Tab
- Double click to select batch an populate screen
- Review Details in the rest of the form
Debtor Batches
When creating a Debtor patch to receive money
- Enter a name
- Choose '''Journal type''' as '''Debtor Payment'''
- Special Type '''Undeposited Funds'''
- Save
- Go to Banking Batches Action Button at bottom of screen
- Varies depending on information in the screen
- Email - choose a template in the next dropdown
- Close batch
General Tab
The group information for the creditors batch
- Description
- Private flag makes the journal batch only visible to the name of the person who raised the journal
- Name of the person who raised the journal
- Date
- Total of the journals and cash only amount
- Journal Type that is to be created
- Sometimes this limitation is not fine enough so special type and subtype are used to categorise further
- Special Type Batches can only hold journals of one type. .
- Undeposited funds
- COGS
- Commissions
- Total spent (if from a Journal Batches capture)
- Number of cheques (if from a Journal Batches capture)
Journals Tab
Will list the journals that have been consolidated by this batch. Add a journal to a batch through General Journals by selecting the batch from the list
- (note that when querying a general journal batch and reviewing a journal it does not show the reference?)
Batch Locator Tab
List all batches that have been created so far. Double click to populate the information into the form.