Overview

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

Most fields have help attached when you hover over the field

See Starting on SaaSplications for best practice steps to setup an new business entity.

You can promote an existing company in the system to a host company

Clear the host company form
Tick on "I intend to promote a company to a Host Company"
Retrieve the company using the company search code

Logo in the navigator

When you use multiple different business entities in the system you may have a different logo showing when you change entities.

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

Each Debtor has a Sales Channel.

Each sales channel can have a number of tags.

Can run the profit and loss to break out the values using the sales channel tags (one or multiple) - as an example:

Divisions / Departments

Are used on Journals to enable department based reporting

Currency / GST / BAS / Freight

Setups for the BAS statement

Deliver charges are setup here

Sales / Credits / Stop Supply Section

Cash sale entity code is the default cash sale debtor

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%

Auto Allocate invoices - used when a payment is entered and will allocate the oldest invoices to the payment

Auto off credit hold - removes customers and orders from hold (only those on hold due to debt) when a payment removes the hold requirement

Max Write offs

Max Debtor write-off adjustment - allows users with Secure Features#CanWriteOffDebtorBalance to write off small amounts - see Getting orders off hold and out the door#Savethepaymentandupdatetheallocations
Max Creditor write off adjustment - allows users with Secure Features#CanWriteoffCreditorBalance to write off small amounts - Supplier Invoices and Payments#SmallAmountWriteoffs
1. With the option to use the invoice date (Action Menu)

Fee service

determines the service to be added to the invoice for cheque payment charge

Default price list

will default for all new debtors. Note that each price list has unique price values for each branch in the system so widget X on price list "Key Customers Pricing" will have one price in NSW and a potentially different price in QLD

Booking Services and Fees

Used only by Vehicle Hire companies

Host Company Profile Settings

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

New Debtors Require Approval - will limit the creation of debtors to users with Secure Features#CanCreateNewDebtor
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
Require PIN ConfirmAnonymousRego -
Claim Fuel Tax Credits
AutoRound Generated invoices - Auto-rounds where the payment method is cash
Allow Pending Refunds
Department mandatory on expense journals - self explainatory
Enforce branch on orderless debtor journals - will not be able to save the journal unless each line has a branch
New Entities must have contact detail = either a phone number or email address before can save them - ie a way to contact them.
Nightly - defer unfinished scheduled events
Weekly: Calculate raw sales data - creates a table used by the forecasting tool of each week of sales
Daily - send bookings digest
Use perpetual financial document numbering - alternatively can have it reset each month or each year and use the month / year in the number
I sell primarily to businesses (distributor) - changes the default from Markup to Gross Profit as default in price lists, sets sell price as incGST
Email remittance advices - will automatically email remittance advices when created
Nightly: Email Statements - will email statements required by Stop Supply process
Allow Drop Ship sales order lines - enables Drop Shipments - supplier sends direct to customer at the line level of a sales order

Entity and Debtor Profiling

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

Standard Entity Profiles - add to Company and Person

Route Stop - used to indicate this business is one that a route (eg bus route) picks up or drops off at
Booking Hub - Indicates an organisation that may take bookings on your behalf
Common Pickup/Dropoff - does not require a booking in order for the vehicle to stop
3rd Party - Not directly related to your business - an entity that you may contact eg tradesperson or worksite
Subscribe to Periodic Emails - adds a checkbox on person and company. Enables export of subscribed list to be used in external mass email tool

Standard Debtor / Creditor Profiles

If this section is greyed out then it is inherited from your Franchisor

Is distributor - allows forecasting to remove from sales projections
Is Courier - indicates this organisation will be in the list of couriers
Provides Leads - will be in the list of leads to enable reporting about the leads they provide
Is key Account - key accounts never get put on stop supply,
is Broker / Transport - will be in the list of transport entities tracked on purchase orders
Requires PO number - sales orders cannot be authorised without PO number
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
Waive need for per order agreements - professional services agreements may be waived for some organisations with blanket arrangements (eg marketplaces)
On Watchlist - Flag a debtor to be on watchlist despite being within terms.
Regional flag where different processes apply
POD - IF proof of delivery will be required on sales orders
Delegation Partner - The entities that work can be delegated to (Jobs or Orders)
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
Do not auto-email credit notes - when a debtor has "auto email Invoices" ticked - then selecting this will NOT also auto email credit notes
Places Bulk Orders - orders to be removed from forecasting projections
Is Marketplace - flag to indicate marketplaces like Ebay, Amazon etc
Allow PO partial invoice - for suppliers that do not send entire PO in a single shipment
Create mirror transactions in their ledger (Friendly) - for organisations that are not franchisor / franchisee however do allow the other to create transactions directly
Require certificate of Origin - for organisations that ship products via customs that were made in countries with a free trade agreement with the host company country and are require to send a certificate with each purchase order

Relationships between host companies

Shows if the host company you are viewing:

Has debtor or Creditor setup with other host companies
Is a debtor or creditor in other host companies

To create a debtor or creditor to trade with another host company - enter their search code in the supplier / customer screen and TAB to create.

Misc

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

Filter views of data - example employees can be limited to their branch
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 Email Templates

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

The report name (eg invoice.mrt) prefixed by the search code of the host company, eg SOULFRESinvoice.mrt or KARMAinvoice.mrt
The report name prefixed by the host company Report Prefix, eg SFinvoice.mrt
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 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 - Bank Accounts - Creating and Managing

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.

Test Email Addresses

When testing = all emails are re-diverted instead of being sent from the system. All Admin persons will get the emails - and so will any emails entered into the email test addresses field.

Debtor and Creditor Aging Terms

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

Term days are then based on:

Invoice - days from invoice date
EOM - days from end of month including the invoice
Prepay - before goods are sent
ROG - receipt of goods
Loan - between trading entities both in the system - example another company you own - or amongst a group of franchisees/ franchisor

Report prefix

Report Prefix is custom prefix of invoice documents across all Debtor Invoices (Default is INV)

Integration API's

Where an integration is available - enter the required details and then test the integration works.

Can have multiple records for the same API and mode (test/production) as long as they have different tags

Each Integration API requires different setup depending on the API - some examples

Channel Advisor

Deputy

ZipPay

The API docs: (https://zip-in-store-pos.api-docs.io/v1/api-specification/purchase-request-create-purchase)

Get the data from:

Eway

Google Maps

Clickatel

Advanced Area

Audit Logins - see Audit Log

GS1 Prefix

EDI ID

Used for integration to EDI messages

SMS from - default

Email bcc - all emails sent from the system will bcc to this account

Franchisor

When a Host company has a franchisor a number of items are managed at the franchisor level - see Managing Franchises

Entity Scope

When a number of host companies share configuration (stock articles, services etc) and they are not in a franchise arrangement they can be linked to the same entity scope and share some information / items, customers, suppliers, employees etc.

Images and Notes

Standard text to be available company wide for emails or standard documents and on the website.

Logos to be used by reports in the system and on websites.

Certificates

Track all the licenses, certifications and other documents at a company level here - see Certifications, SOP Training Tracking, License Management

More

Contact Info

key communication emails to be used in email templates and on documents

Email Copy check box. If ticked then this email address will be added to the list of potential recipients of a composed email.

Owned Entities

All the entities listed with a % ownership

Assets Possessed

All assets that are not owned but are currently in the possession of the organisation - see Assets

Assets Owned

All assets that are owned by the organisation - see Assets

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