The Business Edge has a procedure to help you manage your customer’s prepayments. You may have customers that you would like to prepay for an order that will ship and invoice on a later date. In those cases, you can enter a prepayment on the order level without allocating or invoicing. In order to enter the prepayment you will find an option on the final screen of the order under order totals in options as seen below:
The Pre Payment option will appear within the order totals on the right hand side under options as seen below
The Business Edge will show you the value not allocated, allocated value, if there are taxes on the order and if there are any other prepayments on this order as well as the balance due on the order
In order to create a new prepayment, click on new line and enter the payment type as well as the amount to pay. The check number and payment comment are optional fields that you can choose to populate if that information pertains.
The prepayments that you enter on your orders will accumulate as you enter them. Once you are ready to enter your cash receipts you can apply the prepayments and add them to your deposit by clicking on F5-Prepaid Orders from within a deposit under options as seen below
Next, click on Deposit Prepaid Orders and you will see a list of all the orders that prepayments have been added to and are waiting to be deposited.
Adding the prepayments to your deposit is simple, double click on the prepayment you would like to add to your deposit. The Business Edge will ask you to confirm the prepayment information and the addition of that amount to the deposit. As you add the prepayments to the deposit they will disappear from the list of prepaid orders in the deposit.
After you update your deposit, the prepayment will show on your customer’s account as an unapplied balance until you update the invoice that is associated with the order with the prepayment. At that point, The Business Edge will automatically post the payment to the invoice.