Software Group Link Accounts Receivable can help your business keep track of information about money customers owe your company. Timely, accurate information is the key to helping your company manage its receivables efficiently and effectively. And once you have your receivables under control, your company can expect to improve its cash flow. When you use Software Group Accounts Receivable the information you need to see, from a printed Aged Trial Balance to an on-screen inquiry of a customer's payment record, is at your fingertips.

You can use Accounts Receivable as a standalone module, or you can interface it with other Software Group Link modules, including Recurring Billing, General Ledger, Wholesale Distribution, Point of Sale and Currency Conversion, to create exactly the solution your company needs.

• Supports open items and balance forward customers.
• Provides easy transaction entry for customer invoices, adjustments to customer accounts, payments, debit/credit memos, plus the option to distribute transactions to an unlimited number of General Ledger accounts.
• Prints statements for any billing cycle that show descriptions, all transactions and running balance.
• Maintains complete customer profiles, including average days to pay, credit and sales history, open transactions, payments and NSF checks.
• Allows allocation of cash receipts by invoice, on account, through a specified date, or to record miscellaneous receipts, such as bank interest.
• Lets you project anticipated cash receipts for any due date for budgeting and planning purposes.
• Automatically allocates discounts allowed and applies credits.
• Allows you to write-off uncollectable balances for any type of transaction, including finance charges.
• Automatically calculates salesperson commissions.
• Monitors your item cost per sale.
• Lets you define customer discount types and rates, terms and percents, and credit limits. Includes hot keys that let you add a customer on-the-fly, enter free-form notes, and drill-down to line-item invoice or payment detail within specific functions.
• Allows you to specify finance charges and percentages, up to four aging periods, and multiple sales tax authorities per customer.
• Allows you to change, delete, inquire, print and display all transaction and master file data.
• Provides on-screen master file searches by customer name, ID, telephone number, ZIP Code and other criteria.
• Includes the option to export transaction and customer data to spreadsheets and graphics packages

Accounts Receivable helps your company in many ways.
You can use it to forecast cash receipts.

• You can display or print the Anticipated Cash Receipts report on demand to forecast future cash receipts for any range of due dates, customers and by salesperson. And, your forecast can show full transaction and discount detail by customer, a summary total per customer, or a one-line grand total.
• Control customer credit limits. You determine each customer's credit limit and the system checks it each time the customer orders. Monitoring credit limits can help reduce bad debts.
• Print customer statements on demand. You bill your customers when you want by user-defined cycles. Timely, accurate billing can help improve cash flow.
• Inquire into a customer's record any time to review credit information, average days to pay, payment and sales history, and more... so you can target customer accounts that need your immediate attention.
• Double-check customer discounts. Once you set customer terms, the system automatically double-checks discounts offered or taken on every sale.
• Calculate accurate finance charges for late-paying customers by up to four user-defined aging intervals. Collecting late charges on overdue accounts can increase your cash flow.
• Display financial management reports any time you want including: Anticipated Cash Receipts, Aged Trial Balance, Credit History, Tax Journal and Commissions.