Viewing payments for collection
Menu path
Cash flow à Collections à Collection
Introduction
This screen displays the payments that have to be collected. For example, when a sales invoice using the collection method of payment condition is created and processed, the payment that has to be collected will be displayed. For more information, see Creating and maintaining payment conditions in invoices.
What version are you using?
The information in this document is based on product update 407.
How do I view the collection report?
- In the Collection screen, define the search criteria.
- Click Display.
How do I view the summary report of the payment transactions?
- In the Collection screen, define the search criteria.
- Click Display.
- Click Advanced.
- Click Summary.
- Click Close to exit.
How do I view the debtor card of an account?
- In the Collection screen, define the search criteria.
- Click Display.
- Click Advanced.
- Select the required account.
- Click Card. For more information, see Viewing debtor cards.
Keep in mind: The Card button is available only if Advanced is clicked, and enabled only if an account is selected.
How do I add five days to the payment date for an account?
- In the Collection screen, define the search criteria.
- Click Display.
- Click Advanced.
- Select the required account.
- Click +5 Days. A message “Changed : Payment date : +5 Days” will be displayed.
- Click OK to exit.
Keep in mind: The +5 Days button is available only if Advanced is clicked, and enabled only if an account is selected.
How do I add ten days to the payment date for an account?
- In the Collection screen, define the search criteria.
- Click Display.
- Click Advanced.
- Select the required account.
- Click +10 Days. A message “Changed : Payment date : +10 Days” will be displayed.
- Click OK to exit.
Keep in mind: The +10 Days button is available only if Advanced is clicked, and enabled only if an account is selected.
How do I view and/or edit the debtor information of an account?
- In the Collection screen, define the search criteria.
- Click Display.
- Click Advanced.
- Select the required account.
- Click Maintain. For more information, see Creating and maintaining accounts receivable.
Keep in mind: The Maintain button is available only if Advanced is clicked, and enabled only if an account is selected.
How do I export the transactions into Microsoft Excel?
- In the Collection screen, define the search criteria.
- Click Display.
- Click Advanced.
- Click Export.
How do I block an account from having further transactions?
- In the Collection screen, define the search criteria.
- Click Display.
- Click Advanced.
- Select the required account.
- Click Block.
Keep in mind: The Block button is available only if Advanced is clicked, and enabled only if an account is selected.
How do I view and/or maintain the notes of an account?
- In the Collection screen, define the search criteria.
- Click Display.
- Click Advanced.
- Select the required account.
- Click Note.
- Click Close to exit.
How do I view the payment transactions of an account?
- In the Collection screen, define the search criteria.
- Click Display.
- Select the required account.
- Click Details. For more information, see Creating and maintaining payment conditions for sales orders, service orders, and sales quotations.
Keep in mind: The Details button is enabled only if an account is selected.
How do I view the transactions of an account based on the internal reference?
- In the Collection screen, define the search criteria.
- Click Display.
- Select the required account.
- Click Our ref..
Keep in mind: The Our ref. button is enabled only if an account is selected.
How do I view the transactions of an account based on the customer reference?
- In the Collection screen, define the search criteria.
- Click Display.
- Select the required account.
- Click Your ref..
Keep in mind: The Your ref. button is enabled only if an account is selected.
How do I view the purchase or sales orders of the payment transactions?
- In the Collection screen, define the search criteria.
- Click Display.
- Select the required account.
- Click PO/SO. For more information, see Creating and maintaining sales orders or Creating and maintaining purchase orders.
- Click Close to exit.
How do I process the payments for collection?
- In the Collection screen, define the search criteria.
- Click Display.
- Select the required account.
- Click Process.
Keep in mind: The Process button is enabled only if an account is selected.
How do I match an invoice with the cash flow entries?
- In the Collection screen, define the search criteria.
- Click Display.
- Select the required account.
- Click Match. For more information, see Matching payments or receipts to invoices.
Keep in mind: The Match button is enabled only if an account is selected.
How do I assign my own account, a payment date, payment method, and cash instrument to the payment transactions?
- In the Collection screen, define the search criteria.
- Click Display.
- Select the required account.
- Click Assign.
- Type or select your bank account at Own account.
- Type or select a payment date at Payment date, or select the Clear check box to clear the payment date.
- Select a payment method at Payment method.
- Type or select the bank account for the cash instrument at To Cash instrument.
- Click OK.
Keep in mind: The Assign button is enabled only if an account is selected.
How do I group the invoices manually or automatically?
- In the Collection screen, define the search criteria.
- Click Display.
- Select the accounts that you want to group.
- Click Group.
- Select the Manually option to group the invoices manually or Automatically option to group the invoices automatically.
- Type a payment reference at Payment reference. This field is enabled only if the Manually option is selected.
- Type or select a payment date at Payment date. By default, the current date will be displayed.
- Type or select your bank account at Own account.
- Select a payment method at Payment method.
- Type or select the bank account for the cash instrument at To Cash instrument.
- Click OK.
Keep in mind: The Group button is enabled only if more than one account is selected.
Fields
Collect
Select this check box to display the payments that are due for collection. By default, this check box is selected.
Payments in transit
Select this check box to display all the payments in transit.
Matched
Select this check box to display the matched payments.
or
Click this to show or hide the unmatched payments or receipt transactions in the lower pane of the results section.
Note: The and buttons are displayed only if the Show check box under the Payments and Receipts section is selected when defining the search criteria before displaying the results. These buttons will not be displayed if PO/SO is selected at Group by.
Click this to display the Transaction field.
Group by
Select the required method to group the payments. You can choose to group by Details, Payment reference, Debtor, or PO/SO. By default, Details is selected.
Transaction
Select the type of payment transactions to be displayed. You can choose All, Sales invoice, Sales credit note, Other, or POS Sales invoice. By default, All is selected.
Note: This field is available only if is clicked.
Buttons
Summary
Click this to view the summary report of the payment transactions.
Note: This button is available only if Advanced is clicked.
Card
Click this to view the debtor card. For more information, see Viewing debtor cards.
Note: This button is available only if Advanced is clicked, and enabled only if an account is selected.
+5 Days
Click this to add five days to the payment date.
Note: This button is available only if Advanced is clicked, and enabled only if an account is selected.
+10 Days
Click this to add 10 days to the payment date.
Note: This button is available only if Advanced is clicked, and enabled only if an account is selected.
Maintain
Click this to edit the debtor information. For more information, see Creating and maintaining accounts receivable.
Note: This button is available only if Advanced is clicked, and enabled only if an account is selected.
Export
Click this to export the data to Microsoft Excel.
Note: This button is available only if Advanced is clicked.
Block
Click this to block the account from further transactions.
Note: This button is available only if Advanced is clicked, and enabled only if an account is selected.
Simple / Advanced
Click Simple to hide the Summary, Card, +5 Days, +10 Days, Maintain, Export, and Block buttons.
Click Advanced to display the Summary, Card, +5 Days, +10 Days, Maintain, Export, and Block buttons.
Note: Simple is available only if Advanced is clicked, and Advanced is available only if Simple is clicked.
Refresh
Click this to display the search results according to the defined criteria.
Note
Click this to view or maintain the notes for the selected account.
Details
Click this to view the details of the selected payment transaction. For more information, see Creating and maintaining payment conditions for sales orders, service orders, and sales quotations.
Note: This button is enabled only if an account is selected.
Our ref.
Click this to view the completed transactions of the account based on the internal reference.
Note: This button is enabled only if an account is selected.
Your ref.
Click this to view the completed transactions of the account based on the customer reference.
Note: This button is enabled only if an account is selected.
PO/SO
Click this to view the purchase orders or sales orders of the selected payment transaction. For more information, see Creating and maintaining sales orders and Creating and maintaining purchase orders.
Note: This button is available only if Advanced is clicked.
Process
Click this to process the payment for collection. A process report will be generated displaying information such as the bank account, payment format, file name, total amount, currency, and others. Once a payment is processed, it will be removed from the Collect overview and displayed in the Payments in transit overview.
Note: This is enabled only if an account is selected.
Match
Click this to match the invoices with the cash flow entries. For more information, see Matching payments or receipts to invoices.
Note: This is enabled only if an account is selected.
Assign
Click this to assign own account, payment date, payment method, or bank account for the cash instrument to the payment transaction.
Note: This is enabled only if an account is selected.
Group
Click this to group the invoices manually or automatically based on Payment reference, Payment date, Own account, Payment method, or To Cash instrument.
Note: This is enabled only if more than one account is selected, and this is not necessary for a single debtor or creditor.
Select all / Deselect all
Click Select all to select all the payment transactions.
Click Deselect all to clear all the selected payment transactions.
Note: Select all will be available only if Deselect all is clicked, and Deselect all will be available only if Select all is clicked.
Close
Click this to exit.
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