Monday, April 8, 2013

How to maintain customer record


How to maintain the customer records
For this we must have the customer records of existing company. We open the existing company and go to the maintain the option of the title bar and where select the maintain customer/prospects


In this option the customers mean which we are selling to customers with passage of times while prospects mean those customer which we will sale with mind of retained customers. When we click on the this option the window will appear such are following

This window showing the different option in Header field and Tab. Here keep in mind that basic information for sales customers such are
1)  Customer ID
2)  Name
3)  G.L sales Account

Here we give the ID with itself intention which for easily identify the customer for instance, cash or credit customer so we can give different ID to customer. Name is real name of customer and last is G.L sales Account which show the record of the maintain chart of accounts of sales which should be exist in Peachtree software. Shoeing are

Now we going to the general in tab. Here we will write the name ID and name. press the alt+S will showing small window such are :

This tells about that you have not enter the sales account in sales default so it must to have select the sales account from the lookup which is appear automatically after press the Ok button. Which showing window such as:

Now here we entered the sales account on look up button.
After this I will explain the other info of the customer maintain which include in Tab.
1)  General
2)  Sales default
3)  Payment default
4)  Custom field
5)  History
General Tab:
          Here we write the contact no, and other relevant information can be entered. Bill to address mean where we will sent the invoice to the customers

Sales default:
     In this step the sales represent which are hire for selling as employee. Open pay Oder account mean which the customer sent to sale for desire product purchase. Ship via which not use in Pakistan. Price level mean which we can desire give rate.



Payment defaults:

Payment default deals with other address such are cardholder name, address, city zip and country etc.


Custom field:
Custom field is other information about the customer following second contact, reference, mailing list and multiple sites etc.

History:


      History tells about the customer history when the customer join with us as customer like as option of customer since. Here also about the history about the cash, sales and period history.


Default information:
The next step is the default information for this we will be go to the menu of maintain where select the default information and then select the customer in sub menu such following are

After this it will be appear a window such as following
Payment term:

Here different option of the customer default, accounting, custom fields, finance charges and pay methods. Now I will discussed all steps such are
C.O.D (cash on order):
    Cash an order mean cash received when the goods was sale .which window such as following

Here the net due, discount in, discount % cannot mention because the cash had already receive.
Prepaid:
Here mean the cash are send to seller for order the goods before collected the goods.

Here also not give discount and net due.
Due in number of days:

When the something are sale some times the goods are sale on credit base. So in this the time is give discount such as 3/10, n/30. Its mean seller give 3% discount on the sale if the buyer pay the amount in 10 days while total credit time is 30 days.  Here the also enter the ID of the sales general ledger sales account.
Due on day of next month:

Its mean the due will be on next month of the day
Due at end of date:

Its mean the due will be the end das of the month.
Account aging:
This tells about the account aging by two methods invoice and due date. Here we also fill the payment days with your choice period.

Custom field:
This tells about the information about the customer which we can blank labels can fill with his choice.

Finance charges:





This tells about your customer finance charges if the customer late to payment you can also put the rate which you want to charge on customer










Pay methods:

Tells about what type of payment method but some of these not applied in Pakistan.