Enter Customer Invoice Information
Explanation
Use this activity to define the default IFS Financial details for a customer.
This connects a customer to a company, and states details to be used at invoice
entry. This mandatory task is to be performed by a system administrator or an equivalent
personnel.
When handling multi-site ordering, it is recommended that the customer type is
set to Internal and that a specific customer group is used. This however is not
mandatory for multi-site.
Prerequisites
This activity has the following prerequisites:
- The customer must be entered.
- General customer (the
General tab in
the Customer window)
and customer address (the
Address tab in
the Customer window)
settings must be defined.
System Effects
As a result of this activity:
- Various customer information is suggested at invoice entry, e.g., the
currency normally used by the customer or the payment terms agreed upon.
Window
Related Window Descriptions
Customer
Customer/Invoice
Procedure
To perform this activity, follow these steps:
- Open the Customer
window and click the
Invoice
tab.
- Create a new record.
- In the Company field, select the company from the List of Values.
- On the General
tab, in the Customer Type list, select External to indicate an external
customer or Internal to indicate an internal customer.
- Specify the currency code used by the customer in the Currency field.
- Enter the default currency rate type to be used with transactions related
to the customer, in the Default Currency Rate Type field.
- In the Customer Group and Payment Term fields, enter a value
or select one from the List of Values.
- If necessary, enter the appropriate number of additional copies to print
in the No of Copies field. (The system automatically suggests a value
for this field based on the number of invoice copies defined in the
Customer Groups window. You can change this value.
If you want only the original invoice printed with no additional copies, enter
zero or leave the field blank).
- Select the default tax code to be used for manual customer invoices, interest
invoices and new difference items from the List of Values in the Tax Code
field. The tax code must have been entered in the Tax Codes window
in IFS/Accounting Rules before it is used here.
- Select the Invoice Fee check box if the invoice fee is to be charged.
- Select the Notes check box to enter notes about the invoice. Anyone
can view the notes entered by previous users. You cannot remove or modify the
notes created by other users.
- Select the Print Tax Code Text field if you want the tax code dependent
text to be printed on the customer's invoices.
- Select the Exclude Invoice Image check box if the
invoice image is not to be sent with the E-invoice message.
- On the
Properties
tab, create a new record, select the Property Code from the List of Values,
and enter a value in the Value field.
- The IPD Tax Information tab should be set up if direct deliveries
in the inter-site order functionality is made to this customer. In the IPD
Supply Companies section, create a new record and enter the supply company,
the supply country, the delivery address country, the tax liability and the
appropriate tax id type and number.
Note: The Tax ID Number entered could be validated by the system if
for EU countries the Tax ID Number has a country code prefix and for countries
other than EU countries the Tax ID Type is entered.
- For IPD Tax Information where the tax liability is set to exempt,
you also need to enter one or more tax free tax codes. In the IPD Tax Free
Tax Codes section, create a new record and enter delivery type and tax free
tax code. Note that the value asterisk (*) can be used for delivery type, which
connotes 'for all not specifically defined delivery types.
- On the Jinsui Invoice Information
tab create a new record and enter the relevant information on the fields. Select
the Create Jinsui Invoice check box if the customer needs to be enabled
for a Jinsui invoice.
- If required, information can be entered in the Jinsui Memo field.
- Save the changes.
To Inactive a customer, follow these steps:
- Open the Customer
window and select a customer to inactivate.
- Click the
Invoice tab and select a company from the Company field.
- In the Inactive Date field, enter a date from which the customer
will no longer be active.
- In the Inactive Reason field enter an ID or, using the List of values
select a predefined reason. Alternatively you can enter an inactive reason in
Inactive Reason text field.
- Save the information.
Note: Only the inactive reason will be saved and not the inactive
reason ID.