Definition: What is it?
This sub menu allows the creation of a payment that is automatically applied to the billing account.
What is it used for?
It is used when a payment has been received from a customer that is used to pay off the balance (or part balance) of a billing account.
An example of how this works is similar to a credit card statement where a list of transactions have been incurred over the previous month and one payment is used to settle the outstanding balance.
What's on the screen?
To do
How do I add a payment to a billing account?
Example: To add a payment to a billing account
- Select the 'Payments' sub menu
- The 'Create Payment' screen is displayed
- Enter or use the lookup to enter the 'From Party Id' (NOTE: By default this will be the Bill To Party of the Billing Account)
- Select the 'Organisation Party Id' from the drop down box
- Select the 'Payment Type Id' from the drop down box (NOTE: By default this will be set to 'Customer Deposit')
- Leave the 'Payment Method Type' as 'Billing Account' (NOTE TO CHECK: What happens if you do change this....)
- Enter the 'Amount' of the payment
- Press the 'Create' button
- The new entry is displayed at the bottom of the screen.
NOTE: The total amount of the payment will be applied to the Billing Account. This can be verified by going to Accounting / Payments menu and locating the newly created payment. The 'Amount to Apply' column will be zero.
How do I update a payment for a billing account?
A payment can be updated for a billing account by amending the amount of the payment that has been applied to the billing account. For example if a payment of $100 has been applied to a billing account it can be amended so that only $75 will be applied and $25 will be available to be applied elsewhere.
Example: To update a payment for a billing account
- Click on the 'Payment Id' of the payment that needs to be removed
- The 'Payment Overview' screen is displayed
- Press the 'Update' button in the 'Payments Applied' box
- The 'Payment Applications' screen is displayed
- Locate the 'Billing Account Id' and 'Amount Applied'
- Amend the 'Amount Applied' for the billing account
- Press the 'Update' button next to the entry that refers to the 'Billing Account Id'
- A message will be displayed saying that the payment has been removed from the billing account
How do I delete a payment from a billing account?
A payment can be removed from billing account by removing the link that has applied the payment to the billing account.
NOTE TO CHECK: Couldnt change the status of the payment to 'Cancelled' from 'Not Paid' - why not ? Need to look and understand the process.....
Example: To remove a payment from a billing account
- Click on the 'Payment Id' of the payment that needs to be removed
- The 'Payment Overview' screen is displayed
- Press the 'Update' button in the 'Payments Applied' box
- The 'Payment Applications' screen is displayed
- Press the 'Remove' button next to the entry that refers to the 'Billing Account Id'
- A message will be displayed saying that the payment has been removed from the billing account
NOTE TO CHECK: This example was done when the payment status was at 'Not Paid' - need to test if it still works if the payment status is at 'Received' or 'Confirmed' too.