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>
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> Jobs
New Features
Date Range on Registers
Customer Portal
Prepare Bank Deposit - Sortable Columns
Link to Deposit ID
Last Transaction Date - Advanced Card Search Filter
Credit Limit & Hold window
Auto Fill on Sale Payments
Sortable Columns for Receive Payments
Save Custom Notes
Customer Statements for Overdue Invoices
Sales Tax Rate changes
Introduction
Learn about your AccountEdge software
Manuals
Online help
Other resources
Where to start
Explore your AccountEdge software
Command centers
Action menu
Calendar (date entry)
Calculator
Zoom arrows
Search icons
Select columns
Mouse shortcuts
Shortcut keys
Default screen font
Spell-check
Setting up your company file
Overview
Create a company file
Easy setup assistant
Set up preferences
Set a password for the company file
Set up accounts
Enter account opening balances
Advanced setup
Overview
Set up sales
Do an initial bank reconciliation
Task 1: Identify uncleared withdrawals and deposits
Task 2: Record uncleared withdrawals and deposits
Task 3: Reconcile
Set up Credit Card Processing
Activating Credit Card Processing
Web Pay Setup
Web Store Setup
Manage AccountEdge Connect
Manage AccountEdge Mobile
Manage Rerun
Banking
Receiving money
Bank deposits
Spending money
Entering transactions in the Bank Register window
Transferring money between accounts
Tracking petty cash expenses
Recording miscellaneous transactions
Credit card transactions
Credit card payments using Merchant Account Service
Processing credit card payments using Merchant Account Service
Declined authorization
Timed-out authorization
Voiding Merchant Account Service credit card payments
Reconciling your bank accounts
Undoing an account reconciliation
Importing statements
Analyzing your cash flow [Windows only]
Sales
Creating a Lead Card
Creating a customer card
Entering sales
Task 1: Enter information about the customer
Task 2: Choose the type of sale
Task 3: Enter the items or services you are selling
Task 4: Enter additional information about the sale
Task 5: Complete the sale
Adding and deleting transaction lines, subtotals, and headers in sales transactions
Changing the status of a sale
Reviewing your sales information
Receiving payments
Printing payment receipts
Printing and emailing payment receipts
Credit control
Credit limits
Credit holds
Customer credits
Settling credits
Accounting for bad debts
Process Web Orders
Note: to access this log, go to the Documents folder and click AccountEdge Basic v3 folder and then click Shopify Logs.
Items
Creating items
Customizing Items
Creating custom lists
Custom lists and item reports
Creating brands list
Brands list and sales reports
Weight
Creating custom fields
Creating tags list
Tag list and item reports
Lists
Adding a record
Adding records using Easy-Add
Setting up tax codes
Finding a record
Changing a record
Inactivating or reactivating a record
Deleting a record
Combining records
Combining cards
Combining accounts
Combining items
Tracking Mileage
Company vehicles list
Mileage Rates
Mileage Slips
Email Templates
Transactions
Finding a transaction
Changing or deleting a transaction
Changing a transaction
Deleting a transaction
Reversing a transaction
Recurring transactions
Setting up recurring transactions
Recording recurring transactions
Reminders
Create copy of a transaction
Publishing to Calendar
Publishing an invoice to Calendar
Publishing a recurring transaction to Calendar
Publishing a reminder to Calendar
Reports
Producing reports
Customizing reports
Task 1: Select the data to be printed
Task 2: Select the required fields
Task 3: Select finishing options
Task 4: Change the report format
Task 5: Print the report
Task 6: Save the report
Changing the default fonts on reports
Frequently used reports
Overview of report details
Forms
Finding forms
Sending forms
Sending forms when you record a transaction
Sending forms in a batch
Advanced filters
Customizing forms
Task 1: Display the form
Task 2: Set up form properties
Task 3: Add and edit elements
Task 4: Preview the customized form
Task 5: Save the customized form
Task 6: Print the customized form
Changing the default fonts on forms
Adding and editing elements
Adding and editing data and label elements
Adding and editing graphic elements
Editing all elements with common commands
Contact management
Creating a card
Keeping in touch with your contacts
Personalized letters
Mailing labels
Reminder log
Other ways to keep in touch
Grouping your contacts
Custom lists
Customizing cards
Card identification codes
Card pictures
Lead Source and Status
Reviewing your contact information
Reminders
Financial control
Tracking financial information
Accounts
Jobs
Task 1: Set up a job
Task 2: Assign expenses to the job
Task 3: Bill the customer
Budgets
Entering budget amounts
Budget Shortcuts window
Auditing your records
Reviewing financial information
End-of-period procedures
Month-end procedures
Task 1: Run the Company Data Auditor
Task 2: Reconcile your bank accounts
Task 3: Review reports
Task 4: Send customer statements
Task 5: Record depreciation
Task 6: Lock periods
Starting a new fiscal year
Task 1: Complete month-end tasks
Task 2: Provide information to your accountant
Task 3: Enter end-of-year adjustments
Task 4: Back up your company file
Task 5: Start a new fiscal year
Task 6: Optimize and verify your company file
Managing user accounts and company files
Managing Master Password
Backing up and restoring company files
Servicing your company file
Checking your company file for errors
Optimizing your company file
Purging information that is no longer needed
Troubleshooting file-locking problems
Changing company file date
1 Go to the File menu at any command center and select Update AccountEdge Dates. The Update AccountEdge Dates window will appear.
2 Enter the date in the Update Date field you want to use for the transactions in your company file.
3 Click Update.
Troubleshooting your company file
Alert messages—company file
Alert messages—transactions
Importing and exporting data
Exporting data
Importing data
Importing Quicken (QIF) files
Managing import and export records
Using OfficeLink
Viewing reports in Microsoft Excel (OfficeLink)
Modifying OfficeLink templates for Microsoft Excel
Creating personalized letters (OfficeLink)
OfficeLink templates for personalized letters
Viewing reports in Microsoft Excel
Note: If you want to view the Cash Flow Analysis Report in Excel
Creating personalized letters using OfficeLink
Note: Your box entries will be used on all letters you select
OfficeLink templates for personalized letters
Warning: Important note about changing templates!
Warning: Important note about changing templates!
OfficeLink notes and warnings
If you want to view the Cash Flow Analysis Report in Excel
Important note about changing templates!
Your box entries will be used on all letters you select
Use caution when modifying AccountEdge Excel templates!
These products are compatible with OfficeLink
AppleScripts
Glossary
■[Create/Convert to] Order
■[Create/Convert to] Order
Select to convert a quote to an order. This button appears only for saved quotes.
■[Create/Convert to] Invoice
Select to convert a quote or an order to a invoice. This button appears only for saved quotes and recorded orders.
■Save as Recurring Sale
Select to save the sale as a recurring transaction and set up a schedule for recording it in the future.
■Create Copy
Select to create a copy of the sale. This option is only available on an existing quote, order and invoice.
■Use Recurring Sale
Select to choose a recurring sale to record. This option is only available on a new quote, order, and invoice.
■Add Reimbursable Expense
Select to be reimbursed for expenses you have incurred on a job for the customer.
■Apply to Sale
Select on a credit memo to apply to a sale for the same customer.
■Pay Refund
Select on a credit memo to pay a refund to the same customer. This option will open the Settle Returns & Credits window displaying a check to the customer.
■[Create/Convert to] Order
■[Create/Convert to] Invoice
■Save as Recurring Sale
■Create Copy
■Use Recurring Sale
■Add Reimbursable Expense
■Apply to Sale
■Pay Refund
■[Create/Convert to] Order
Select to convert a quote to an order. This button appears only for saved quotes.
■[Create/Convert to] Invoice
Select to convert a quote or an order to a invoice. This button appears only for saved quotes and recorded orders.
■Save as Recurring Sale
Select to save the sale as a recurring transaction and set up a schedule for recording it in the future.
■Create Copy
Select to create a copy of the sale. This option is only available on an existing quote, order and invoice.
■Use Recurring Sale
Select to choose a recurring sale to record. This option is only available on a new quote, order, and invoice.
■Add Reimbursable Expense/Mileage
Select to be reimbursed for expenses/mileage you have incurred on a job for the customer.
■Apply to Sale
Select on a credit memo to apply to a sale for the same customer.
■Pay Refund
Select on a credit memo to pay a refund to the same customer. This option will open the Settle Returns & Credits window displaying a check to the customer.
■Save as Recurring Sale
■Create Copy
Accounts List [Summary]
Accounts List [Detail]
As Of 9/12/17
Account Transactions
1/1/17 through 12/31/17
Linked Accounts
Index
Jobs
Jobs can be set up to track income and expenses related to specific jobs. This is particularly useful when multiple jobs are performed for a single customer. When you enter a transaction, the appropriate job number can be assigned to each individual amount. This enables you to associate several jobs with the various amounts in a single transaction.
For example, if a purchase includes parts for three customers, you could specify each of the three jobs to which that purchase relates. A profit and loss statement can then be prepared for each job.
Specific job-tracking tasks include:
■
linking jobs to specific customers
■
assigning jobs to individual line items on transactions
To create a job
1
Go to the
Lists
menu and choose
Jobs
. The
Jobs List
window appears.
2
Click
New
. The
New Job
window appears.
3
In the
Job Number
field, type a code for the job and press Tab.
4
Enter additional information about the job, such as a job name and description.
If you want to link the job to a customer, type or select a customer in the
Linked Customer
field.
You can view details of all jobs linked to a customer in the
Jobs
tab of the customer’s card.
5
Select the custom lists and fields associated with the job to use as additional sorting tools
in reports.
6
Click
OK
. The
Jobs List
window reappears.
7
Review the list of jobs you have created. If you need to change the details of a job, select the job and click
Edit
.
To enter job opening balances
If you started using your AccountEdge software while a particular job was in progress, you can create the job and then enter any account activity generated by the job so far in the
Job Opening Balances
window.
You can enter opening balances only for detail jobs. Header jobs take their balances from the detail jobs below them.
1
Go to the
Setup
menu, choose
Balances
, then
Job Opening Balances
. The
Job Opening Balances
window appears.
2
In the
Job Number
field, type or select the job number of the job for which you want to enter an opening balance and press
Tab
.
3
In the
Opening Balances
column, type the opening balance for the job.
4
Repeat from
step 2
for each job with an opening balance.
5
Click
OK
when you have finished.
Related topics
■
Tracking financial information
■
Accounts
■
Customizing Jobs
Customizing Jobs
You can easily customize your jobs by using custom lists and fields.
Creating custom lists gives you additional filters to sort reports.You can use custom fields to add specific information for each job. For example, if you label a custom field Specific Instructions you can add instructions for that job to tell your employees working on the job that they can only use the side entrance of the building to enter and exit. Another example can be for Access Codes. Enter the specific access code to set the alarm when leaving the job. These are only a few examples. Although custom fields cannot be used as report filters they can be used for many other details pertaining to the job.
To name a job custom lists and field names
1
Go to the
Lists
menu and select
Custom Lists & Field Names
then select
Jobs
from the drop down menu. The
Custom Lists and Field Names
window appears.
2
The
Job
tab is selected, enter the names for each of the custom lists and fields you want to use.
3
Click
OK
to close the window. The names for the lists you have entered will now appear in the
New or Edit Job
window.
To create a custom list entry
1
Go to the
Lists
menu and select
Custom Lists
then select
Jobs
. The
Custom Lists
window appears.
2
Select the Custom List for which you want to create and entry.
3
Click
New
. The
Edit Custom List
window appears.
4
Enter the custom list entry’s name and then click
OK
. The entry appears in the
Custom Lists
window.
To assign a custom list and enter custom fields to a job
1
Go to the
Lists
menu and select Jobs. The
Jobs List
window appears.
2
Select the job you want to customize and click
Edit
. The
Edit
Job
window appears.
3
Select from the list entry’s applicable to this job.
4
Enter specific information relating to the field.
note :
Custom Lists and Fields
A custom list can be used to filter a report, however a field can only be referenced and cannot be used to filter a report.
Related topics
■
Tracking financial information
■
Accounts
■
Jobs
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