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Creditor Maintenance - Account tab

Use the Account tab to maintain the creditor's:

Opening the Account tab

Creditor Maintenance - Account tab key fields

Field

Description

Category

Creditor category, for example, Food for a food supplier. See luCreditorSupplierCategory lookup table in the Finance manual.

Approved Supplier

Select if the supplier has been accredited as an approved supplier by your organisation.

Hold Payments

Select to hold payments being made to the supplier.

For example, a dispute may have arisen over the goods and services supplied. Payment is withheld pending agreement on a resolution.

A.B.N. Supplied

In Australia, legislation requires businesses to withhold tax from payments to suppliers who do not provide an ABN.

Select if the creditor has provided their Australian Business Number.

If this field is not selected, Synergetic asks the user if they want to generate a withholding tax credit against the supplier’s account.

This field can be directly set when entering invoices.

A.B.N.

Business identification number quoted on the supplier's invoice. This is required for reference purposes and government legislation.

A.B.N. Division

Two digit suffix for the creditor's ABN division if required.

Note: Large companies may have ABN divisions for their subsidiaries. The majority of companies do not have ABN divisions.

G.S.T. Registered

Select if the creditor is registered for GST.

Clear if creditor is not registered for GST. All general ledger journal entries are created as tax free.

Allow Auto Archive

Automatically archive the creditor's account transactions.

Invoice Prices Include Tax

Order Prices Include Tax

Select if the invoice or order price includes GST.

Note: Clear the checkbox if the supplier prices the line items of their invoices exclusive of tax, with the total for GST added in at the bottom of the invoice.

Consignment Stock Creditor

Select if the creditor has stock on consignment with you, for example second-hand books or uniform.

These creditors are typically only paid once or twice a year.

Receive Consign Stock Payment

Select to indicate that goods are donated.

Clear if the creditor is your organisation.

Purchase Order Notify Method

How the creditor receives purchase order notifications:

  • email - notifications are emailed from Synergetic
  • print - notifications are printed for mailing
  • fax - notifications are faxed from Synergetic.

Purchase Order Email Address

Select the email to receive payment emails:

  • Default
  • Home
  • Occupation.

Creditor Maintenance - Payment Details tab (Payment Email Address, cut down)

You can use different email addresses to send emails to creditors for purchase orders and payments. For example, you want to send:

To update a creditor's email addresses, see:

Normal Payment Days

Creditor's normal payment terms.

Note: A value of 1 means this creditor must be prompted for each payment.

Our Account Reference

Account reference number used by the supplier for your account.

Default Invoice Description

Description that automatically appears on the remittance advice to the supplier, for example, 'Advertisement 26/10/2016'.

Default GL Code

A default general ledger code.

Tip: If you regularly use the same general ledger code for this creditor's invoices, set that code here. This code is automatically selected on the Creditor Invoice Entry - G/L Allocation tab.

Last modified: 8/04/2015 1:30:16 PM

See Also

Maintaining creditors

Searching for creditors

Creating new creditors

Merging creditor records

Deleting creditors or making them inactive

Creditor Maintenance - General tab

Creditor Maintenance - Payment Details tab

Creditor Maintenance - Summary tab

Creditor Maintenance - Alert tab

Creditor Maintenance - Outstanding tab

Creditor Maintenance - Paid Invoices tab

Creditor Maintenance - Payments tab

Creditor Maintenance - Purchase Orders tab

Creditor Maintenance - Order Details tab

Creditor Maintenance - Assets tab

Creditor Maintenance - User Forms tab

Creditor Maintenance - DocMan tab

Creditor Maintenance - Journals tab

Creditor Maintenance - Maint tab

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