Add a Receipt

  1. Access the Receipts area.
  2. Do one of the following:
  3. Select the Bank account.
  4. The Effective date defaults to the system date but can be changed if necessary.
  5. The Accounting month defaults to the current accounting month but can be changed if necessary.
  6. Enter a Description for the receipt.
  7. If you want to process payments entered in the Transactions area or via the Print a Receipt for Payment option with this receipt, select the appropriate checkboxes in the Process Outstanding Transactions frame.
  8. Click Continue.
  9. If you selected any of the checkboxes in the Process Outstanding Transactions frame, the Process Outstanding Transactions screen displays. If you did not, continue to the next step.
  10. Choose the appropriate entity in the Type dropdown menu.
  11. Enter the lookup code for the client, broker, invoice, etc., or click the lookup button to look up the account.
    1. In the Locate by dropdown menu, select Cash on Account, Account Name, Bill #, Invoice #, Item #, or Policy #.
    2. Type at least the first character in the first field and click Locate or press [Enter].
    3. Double click the appropriate item, or click once on the item and click Finish or press [Enter].

      Note: There is no lookup field associated with the Miscellaneous selection.
  12. Enter a Schedule, Method, and Payment ID.

    Note: Use the payment ID group detail rows that came from the same initial payment (for example, you can enter the check number from the associated check). The payment ID determines how detail rows are rolled up in the receipt detail Summary view and on the Summary layout for the Deposit Register report.
  13. Enter a Payment date, or click the down arrow to the right of the field to choose a date from the dropdown calendar.

    The payment date can be used for tracking purposes, but it is up to your organization to define what this date represents. Using this field to indicate the date the receipt for payment was recorded is recommended.

    Note:
    This date is not the effective date that will file for the PYMT transaction that is created.
  14. Enter a Routing # if applicable.
  15. Enter a Description for the receipt.
  16. Enter the Amount of the receipt.
  17. Select the Credit or Debit radio button.
  18. To allocate this item, click the Get Allocation link label. See Using Allocations for more information.
  19. If you chose Broker, Client, Company, Finance Company, or Other Interest in the Type dropdown menu, make a selection in the Apply to dropdown menu. Options available in this menu depend on the Type you selected.

    If you chose Employee, Miscellaneous, or Vendor in the Type field, enter the GL account number in the fields provided. To look up the account, click the lookup button . Type at least the first digit of the account in the first field, or the first digit of the subaccount in the second field, and then click Locate. Highlight the appropriate GL account and click Finish.

  20. In the Structure frame, select an Agency, Branch, Department, and Profit Center if applicable. If you select an agency that is not associated to the bank account, interagency rows will be created when the receipt is finalized. Click here for an example of how these rows will be created.

    Note:
    If the account belongs to only one structure type, the Structure fields are disabled.
  21. Optionally select the Suspend receipt checkbox in the bottom left corner.
  22. If this receipt is for a client, you may have the option to select the Send SMS checkbox to notify the primary contact via text message that the receipt has been processed. (This option is not available for other entity types.) Click here for more information on how the default setting for this checkbox is determined.

    If you are sending an SMS message, optionally change the Template for the message:
    1. Click the lookup button in the Template field.  
    2. To filter the list of available templates, select a Tag.
    3. Select the Template and then click Finish.
  23. Add, edit, or remove items from the receipt as necessary.  You can change the columns that display in the list if necessary.

    To see what a particular receipt detail row was applied to (which items, policies, etc.), select the detail row and click the Apply To Details link label. Information on this screen is read-only.
  24. You can access the receipt Summary view at any point by clicking the Detail view filter at the top of the screen and selecting Summary. Click here for an explanation of how detail rows are consolidated in the Summary view.
  25. Click Finish or press [Enter] to complete the workflow.

    Click the Add button to add another receipt.

    Click Cancel or press [Esc] to exit the workflow without saving the information.
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