Pay a Producer/Broker Payable Statement

This action launches the Add a Disbursement workflow and updates the statement’s Suspended status to Finalized. Much of the payment information defaults when you pay a statement from the Reconciliations area, so very little manual data entry is required.

To pay multiple statements at the same time, use the Batch Process Statements action.

Note: This action cannot be used to pay statements with a Reversed status of Processing, Failed, or Reversed.

If the Journal Entry Approval Process is enabled, only journal entries with an Approved or System Approved status affect General Ledger balances and display on reconciliation screens. Journal entries with a Working, Submitted, or Rejected status are excluded.

  1. Access the Reconciliations area.

  2. Click Pr/Br Payables under Reconciliations on the navigation panel.

  3. The Producer/Broker Payable Reconciliations screen displays. Enter your desired search criteria to populate the list.

Click here for an explanation of reconciliation statuses.

 

Click here for information regarding Master Statement Numbers.

  1. Click the Statement in the list and then do one of the following:

    Note: No actions can be performed on statements that contain archived transactions.

  2. You are prompted, "Do you wish to pay this statement immediately?" Click Yes to pay the statement, or Cancel to exit the workflow. If you click Cancel, the statement's status is still updated to Finalized, but you are not taken to the Add Disbursement screen.
  3. The Add Disbursement window displays. Select the Bank account.
  4. The Effective date, Accounting month, and Description default but can be updated if necessary.
  5. Information in the Pay to the Order of section defaults but can be changed if necessary.
  6. Information in the Check section defaults based on how the bank account has been defined, but it can be overwritten. Select the Print checkbox if you want to print a check. If a check has already been printed, deselect the Print checkbox and enter the Check #.
  7. If you selected Print, the Include check stub detail option is selected by default. Deselect this checkbox if you want to print the check only, with no supporting detail.
  8. Optionally enter a Memo and/or Remittance.
  9. In the Routing field, optionally enter any information dictating where the check should be sent (for example, if it should go to another employee before being mailed to the payee).
  10. Use the Comments field to enter any additional information that you want to print on the check stub.
  11. Click Continue or press [Enter] to continue the workflow.

    Click Cancel to exit the workflow without paying the statement.
  12. The statement's status is updated to Paid. Detail for the disbursement displays. The offsetting GL account, Structure, and Amount cannot be modified. For more information on the fields on this screen, see Add a Disbursement.
  13. Click Finish or press [Enter] to complete the workflow. You are returned to the Reconciliations area.

    Click Add to finish this payment and to immediately process another payment.

    Click Cancel or press [Esc] to close the window without paying the statement.

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