Receipt Classes

Define receipt classes to determine the required processing steps for receipts to which you assign receipt methods with this class. These steps include confirmation, remittance, and reconciliation. You can specify any combination of these processing steps with one exception: if you confirm and reconcile, then you must also remit. If you enter No for all three of these steps, Receivables automatically creates receipts assigned to this receipt class with a status of Cleared.

Receivables uses the receipt method you assign to a receipt class to determine how to account for receipts you create using this receipt class.

For each receipt class, you can specify a creation method, remittance method, and whether to require bank clearance for receipts that you assign to this class. If you are defining a receipt class whose creation method is Bills Receivable, then Require Confirmation, Remittance Method, and Clearance Method are disabled. If you are defining a receipt class whose creation method is Automatic, then the Remittance Method cannot be No Remittance.

Receivables lets your customers pay their invoices via credit cards and electronic funds transfer (both non-Automatic Clearing House direct debit and ACH bank account transfers).

To define a receipt class:

  1. Navigate to the Receipt Classes window.

  2. Enter a unique Name for your Receipt Class.

  3. If you are creating a Notes Receivable receipt class, check the Notes Receivable box. You cannot change this attribute after you assign a receipt method and then save this receipt class. See: Notes Receivable.

  4. Choose a Creation Method.

  5. To require automatic receipts assigned to this receipt class to be confirmed before they can be remitted, check the Require Confirmation box. Check this box to confirm automatic receipts using this receipt class in the Confirm Automatic Receipts window.

    If you check this box, then:

    If you are defining a receipt class for use with ACH bank account transfers, then you should not check this box.

  6. Choose a Remittance Method. The remittance method determines the accounts that Receivables uses for automatic receipts that you create using the receipt method assigned to this receipt class. Choose one of the following methods:

  7. To require receipts created using a receipt method assigned to this receipt class to be reconciled before posting them to your cash account in the general ledger, choose one of the following Clearance Methods:

  8. Enter the receipt method to assign to this receipt class. See: Receipt Methods.

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