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.3.4 Accounting Element
.3.4.1 Discussion
The Accounting manager keeps track of financial charges, credit card processes, and receipts of payment. The link from the Order Manager to the Accounting Manager is the Invoice Number, generated when the Order is processed.
.3.4.2 From the Sales Order
.3.4.3 From the Accounting Manager - Find Invoice screen
.3.4.4 Overview of the Invoice
.3.4.5 Send an invoice by email
.3.4.6 Payments made are found here
.3.4.7 Create or View a Payment
As you can see in the following screen, the Payment screen contains a lot of information not normally at your fingertips. The screen for creating a Payment looks very similar to the View Payment screen: you have drop-down boxes for Payment Type, Payment Method Type, and Status. The other fields are asking for ID numbers which may be more difficult to obtain.
For the above reasons, it is probably quicker and easier to click on the [Receive Payment] link from the View Order screen than to try to create a Payment from the Accounting Manager.