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@HE VICAR - Customer File Maintenance
7.0 GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Purpose of this section is to allow the user to maintain
the individual customer records and the data contained
therein.
Customer Maintenance is performed by selecting:
A. Customer File Maintenance
from the Main Program Menu. Once selected, the Following menu
will be displayed:
N ew Customer Account
S earch/Inquire Account
P rint Customer List
A lpha. Customer List
SELECTION DESCRIPTIONS:
7.1 NEW CUSTOMER ACCOUNT - Used to enter information for a
new customer. The information is as follows: See Figure 7.1a.
Account Number - A unique number must be given to each
customer when they are originally entered for reference
purposes. It is a good custom to assign the numbers to each
customer by 5's or 10's when the system is originally started.
This will allow for new customers to be added in between the
current customers while maintaining a somewhat alphabetic
pattern to the customer list, therefore making it easier to
remember customer numbers.
Note - To See what Account Numbers are already in use,
enter a number in the range where you want to put a
customer e.g. 50 for "C" and press F4 to pull up the
Customer Look-up window. You CANNOT select a number from
this window in New Customer entry.
NOTE - Available only in the Registered Version.
Company Name - The name of the customer. The alphabetic
listing is done according to this field.
Name 2 - Additional room for Division name, etc.
Address - Should contain the complete mailing address for the
customer, P.O. box or Street address, etc.
City, State - et al.
Zip Code - Allows for entering the complete 9 Digit Zip Code.
Contact - The Person to whom any correspondence for this
customer should be sent to, this includes statements and any
other reports using this field.
New Customer Account - Continued.
Phone Number - Complete phone number including area code
& extension.
Salesmen Number - Number of sales person responsible for sales
and/or service to this customer. Enter a 0 if there is no
specific sales person responsible for the customer or if
"salesmen" are not used.
Pressing the F4 key will display a list of all "Salesmen"
on file from which to Choose.
NOTE - Available only in the Registered Version.
Customer Type - A partial description field etc. of the type
of customer this is. Such as: "Whol"esale, "Reta"il,
"Coun"ter, "Misc", etc. Can be left blank or given any
"Customer Type" that the user wishes. This field is used by
Sales analysis to sort customers into specific sales groups
that are useful to the user in generating these reports.
Tax Rate - This Rate is used by the P.O.S. System to
compute sales tax for taxable customers. The rate is entered
as a decimal amount with an assumed 3 decimal places. e.g.
1.5% would be entered as: 015 which becomes 0.015 upon entry.
Tax Rate 2 - Same as above but for the second Tax field
for those of you who have a seperate County or City Tax
to compute for taxable customers.
Print Statement (Y/N) - This field indicates to the Statement
Printing routine if a statement should be printed for this
customer, irregardless of the customers account status or
current balance. This will allow the user to prevent the
printing of statements for customers who do not require
statements or for customers whom the user no longer wishes to
send statements to because they are being "Written Off", etc.
Detailed Statement (Y/N) - NOT used at this time.
Assess Finance Charges (Y/N) - Determines whether this
customer will be considered when finance charges are being
calculated on over-due balances. Prevents assessing charges to
customers who are on "Hold" or are going to be "Written Off"
at the end of the year.
Discount Bracket - Determines which discount bracket should be
used by the statement module or P.O.S. System in calculating
the amount of discount that can be taken by the customer in
regards to flat discounts, 2% 10 EOM, 1.5% 15, NET 30, etc.
Pressing the F4 key in this field will bring up a listing
of the defined Discount Brackets from which to choose.
NOTE - Available only in the Registered Version.
New Customer Account - Continued.
Sales MTD - Can be entered by the user when the customer
account is originally created, if this amount is known or left
as 0.00. This amount is continually updated by the posting
processes of the system and no further changes to this field
should be required. This amount is cleared at the end of the
month from File Maintenance by Clear MTD Totals.
Sales YTD - Same as above, except this amount is cleared
at the end of the year from File Maintenance by Clear YTD
Totals.
Sales LY - Same as above, except this amount contains the
amount of sales this customer had last year. It is
initialized when the Clear YTD Totals procedure is run
from File Maintenance at the end of the year.
Total Due - Amount due you by this customer Currently in
regards to all posted transactions. A negative amount
eg. -25.00, indicates a credit balance. This amount is also
continually updated by the posting processes of the system,
and no further changes are required.
Credit Limit - This amount is set by the user to allow reports
to indicate which customers are beyond their normal
indebtedness as determined by the user and the customers
normal sales levels.
Over Credit Limit - Indicates to the user if the customer is
over their credit limit and allows it to be changed when the
Credit Limit level is changed by the user. This field is also
used by the Print Statements module to print an automatic
warning to the customer if so.
Balance Forward / Open Invoice - Indicates the way in which
transactions for the customer should be handled by the system
in regards to purges, printing of statements, applying of
payments, credits, debits, etc. This field can be changed from
Open Invoice to Balance Forward at any time.
NOTE: This field should only be changed from Balance Forward
to Open Invoice when the customer is Paid in Full and all
transactions have been PURGED to prevent any problems in
purging out the old balances. This will also facilitate the
user in keeping track of which invoices are paid by a
customer, and which are not. ( Considering customers
"requiring" open Item Accounts are rather inconsistent in
paying all invoices properly and in full at one time.)
NOTE: A Re-build of the transaction Index should be
performed AFTER changing a customers "Account Type".
New Customer Account - Continued.
G/L INTERFACE ACCOUNT NUMBERS:
NOTE - All G/L numbers to be used in the fields below must be
on file in the G/L Maintenance section of System Maintenance
before they can be entered in the fields described below. All
fields below must contain valid G/L numbers before this
customer record can be saved.
NOTE - Pressing the F4 key in any of the following fields will
display a listing of all Valid G/L numbers from which to
choose.
NOTE - Available only in the Registered Version.
Cash Account - This number should indicate the appropriate
Cash Account used by the G/L System. This account number can
differ from customer to customer depending on whether the user
has different Bank accounts for specific customer types,
divisions, branch locations, etc.
Tax Account - This number should indicate the primary Sales
Tax G/L Account number (e.g. State Sales Tax) for the customer.
Tax 2 Account - This number should indicate the secondary
Sales Tax G/L Account number (e.g. County Sales Tax) for the
customer. If there is no need for a second sales tax for the
customer, enter the same G/L account number as in the Tax
Account above. This will prevent any errors in posting if a
tax amount is mistakenly entered in the Tax 2 field of
Transaction Entry.
Sales Account - This number should indicate the primary G/L
Sales account number for the specific customer type or Sales
in general, depending on how specific the user has chosen to
be about sales, customer types, etc.
Miscellaneous Sales Account - This number should indicate the
secondary G/L Sales account, if not it should be the same
number as above in Sales Account. This Account number is
available because the transaction entry screens allow sales to
be broken down into two separate sales catagories; Sales and
Other sales, if the user wants to take advantage of such.
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7.2 SEARCH/INQUIRE CUSTOMER ACCOUNT - Used to make any needed
changes to a customers master file. All Fields are the same
as described above, except: the customer number, though
changeable on Screen, will NOT be changed in the customer
master file itself.
Pressing <F4> at the Search Customer Number prompt will bring up
the customer selection Window. Additional keys may be used in
this selection window besides the ones listed at the bottom of
the screen, which include PageUp, PageDn, Up arrow, & the Dn
arrow. Pressing <ESC> will abort the selction window. Pressing
<F2> or <ENTER> will select the highlighted item.
NOTE - Available only in the Registered Version.
NOTE: The customer number cannot be changed once a customer is
added. This prevents corruption of the transaction file by
creating "UNKNOWN" customer numbers by allowing the number to
be changed. To Change a customer number, a New customer
number must be created with ALL the information contained in
the "old" customer record. This way any new transactions can
be posted to the new record ONLY. The transactions under the
"old" customer number can then be credited off and purged. The
transactions once credited must be Posted again to the New
number.
If it is an Open-Item account, then it might be easier to keep
both accounts for a while, until payment is received for the
transactions contained under the old customer number and they
can be purged out by applying the payments to the old
transactions.
NOTE: A customer cannot be DELETED if there are any outstanding
transactions on file. All outstanding transactions must be paid
for and purged before a customer can be deleted.
7.3 PRINT CUSTOMER LIST - Lists the Customers on File by Account
number, with their Addresses, Contact Person, Phone Number, etc.
7.4 ALPHABETICAL CUSTOMER LIST - Same as above but in
alphabetical order according to customer name.