HOW TO MAINTAIN
CUSTOMER / PROSPECTS
After setup a company and charts of
account now time to maintain
customer/prospects for establish account receivable . you can enter the
information about people as well as companies.
Maintain customer/prospect include
the information such as :
- Name and address information and also
include the information about country, website, E-mail, telephone number, bill to
address
- Sales defaults include information of
delivery method, GL sales account , etc
- Payments defaults include payment
method,
- Custom fields in which u edit some
more about customer
- In history it includes the last
invoice date, last payment date , etc
First open a peach tree and click on
maintain button and click on the customer/prospects
:
When u click on customer/prospects this window will appear :
In this the following things :
Enter a customer id like this 001 etc
and then name of customer in this tabs :
In general we fill the following things like contact, address,
country, email, telephone and bill to address in which you given different
addresses and sale tax , customer type, etc.
In sales defaults :
GL
sales account : enter a General
Ledger account for the default sales account for this customer. The delivery method ,pricing level
in which we set the price of product and Sales
Rep: You can enter the sales representative that has contact with
the customer. In open PO # contain the number of
order or order number, etc.
In payment defaults , enter the
customer’s billing address ,and cardholder’s name , and select your desired
options from the Payment Method and Cash Account lists. Allows you to enter a default credit
card number to use for this customer,and the expiration date , etc .
To enter custom field information selected customer record,
select the Custom Fields tab in the Maintain
Customers/Prospects .
In history we fill the following
things :
In Customer Since: enter the date when you first made a sale to the customer,Last
Invoice Date: is the date of the
last invoice you sent to the customer,Last Invoice Amt: is the amount of the last invoice,Last Payment Date: is
the date of the last payment you received from the customer,Last Payment Amt: is the last payment amount you received from the
customer and Last Statement Date: is the date of the last statement you sent to the customer.
Default information
How to open a default information of customer :
First click on the maintain button
and click the option of default information and then open a sub menu and click
on customer :
When you click on customer this
window will appear :
In customer default these are the
following options :
- Payment terms
- Account aging
- Custom fields
- Finance charges
- Pay methods
In the payment terms we fill the
standard terms ,GL sales account and Discount GL account :
In account aging ,we fill the information about invoice date, due date
and fill the aging categories .
Custom fields
can used to enter extra information about customers .
In finance charges , we enter the data about finance charges ,interest
rate and atc .