Payment Terms

Payment Terms

About Payment Terms

The Payment Terms page enables you to customize and maintain payment terms. You can use this screen to add new payment terms, or modify existing payment terms to calculate a due date on an order. Once you have added a payment term, they can be assigned to customers and suppliers. You can access the Payment Terms page via the Settings | System | Payment Terms.

Payment terms are calculated off the Invoice Date  and not the Order Created Date!


Payment Terms page


 

Field and functional descriptions


Header field descriptions

These fields enable you to create new payment terms.

Name: Using this field, you can enter in a payment term name.
Days: Using this field, you can enter in the number of days that should be used when calculating the due date for this payment term.
Type: Using this field, you can enter in a type of term. The following four types, enable you to calculate the due date, which you need to pay your sales order by.  For example, if you work from the order date and base it on "7 days after" then your due date is in one week's time.  This date automatically appears on your sales order.  
You can choose from the following items in the drop-down menu:

  • Days after: Enables you to manually select a number of "Days after" the due date should be set to.
  • Days following the end of month: Enables you to manually select the number of "Days following the end of the month" the due date should be set to.
  • Days of the month following: Enables you to select the number of "Days of the month following" the due date should be set to.
  • End of the month following: Sets the due date to the last day of the following month.


Header button descriptions

Add: When pressed, it adds a new payment term based on what has been entered in the fields to the left.

Grid column descriptions

When you select any of the following columns at line level, you can edit the line on the grid.  For instance, you can change/amend the name, date and type of payment term. From the grid columns, you can delete the payment term at line level.

Name: Displays the name of the specified payment term at line level.
Days: Displays the days of the specified payment term at line level.
Type: Displays the type of the specified payment term at line level.
Delete: Provides you with the ability to delete the specified payment term at line level.


How to enter the name of the Payment Term

  1. Create a name for the payment term
  • Enter in the name of the payment term.
  1. Enter in a number of days between 0 and 365 days
  • Choose the number of days you require.
  • Enter it into the Days field
  1. Choose a payment term type
  • From the drop-down, choose a payment term type (i.e. Days after, Days following the end of the month, Days of the month following and End of the month following).
  • Click on the Add button.
  • The new payment term type is added to the list.

When you have enabled your custom payment term, it becomes available on your Add Supplier and Add Customer screens. From there, you can select the payment term you require, and when set, they will appear on purchase orders created from the Supplier record and on sales orders created from the customer record.

 

How to edit an existing Payment Term type

  1. You can easily modify a payment term type by selecting it from the grid at line level.
  2. The Delete columns enable you to either delete, save or edit your payment term type at line level.

 

Payment Terms Tutorial





    • Related Articles

    • Advanced company settings

      Adding terms & details to purchase orders For those users who clarify payment details with their suppliers through other correspondence, this can be done on your purchase orders.     Comments are entered while doing the purchase order, in the ...

    • Adding a Supplier

        The following diagram demonstrates how a Supplier is captured in Unleashed. You can optionally import Suppliers into the Purchase module by using the Import Purchases function.   You can either; Import Suppliers into Unleashed, or  Create Suppliers ...

    • Xero Integration Guide

      Unleashed can integrate with your accounting provider to provide your business with real-time information. This is useful when completing transactions in Unleashed, such as receivables, credits and stock journals.     Important notice These details ...

    • Adding Sales Order

      The Add Sales Order page enables you to enter sales orders for customers. This page provides you with the flexibility to edit sales orders at line level.  If you want the ability to create multiple shipments, multiple invoices, and purchases, you ...

    • QuickBooks Integration Guide

      QuickBooks offers on-the-go, easy, and efficient accounting applications for small to medium-sized businesses.  Unleashed can integrate with QuickBooks, allowing information to flow seamlessly to provide your business with real-time information on ...