MAINTAIN CUSTOMERS & PROSPECTS
1.Open the peach tree software and click on the open an
existing company.
2.when u will open your existing company then click on the
maintain tab and click Maintain Customer/prospects.
3.the window appears and it will show you the columns and
empty blocks which you will fill according to the requirement.
First of all write any Contact I.D and Name of any Customer
to start the process.
4. then we go to General tab..here
we see the multiple heading with given
columns to fullfill it according to our need and requirement.
Here we write any Contact
name. and down ship to Adress 1. There are maximum 9 addresses at which we can
send and receive different items . we can fill every block according to our
requirement. But here the minimum requirement is Contact name and Telephone 1
to be fullfilled.
5. then we go to Sales
Defaults. In this we see different columns to be fullfilled according to our
requirement. As we know we have made the Maintain Charts of Accounts , and we
have opened our previously saved Charts of Accounts. So in GL Sales Account we
will press on the Magnifier glass and search for the Sales from the samples of Accounts and double click on it.
Resale # tells about the
things or products where they are directly delivered..
Pricing level tells about the
percentage of cost and price we want to set .
6. in the next tab Payment Defaults we will write the
Address. And we can fill all the columns if we want to..if we want that our
customers can purchase via Credit card we can enter the Credit card # and
expiry date of the Credit Card.
7. in the next tab Custom
Fields the headings which we see on the left side , these headings can be changed
according to our requirement. And maximum 5 headings can be written. These
heading s can be changed from Default information.
8. and in the last tab of
History we cannot write change anything because it is by default. And it tells
you about the last date of invoice,payment, and Statement..
And the two uncheck which are
on the top ,
Prospect: if we make
quotation and send it .
Inactive: we can inactive
those customers who do not give payments on time or who have not given money
yet.
Customer Defaults
1. First of all we open peach-tree software and open
our existing company, which we made before and saved.
2.
Now we open Customer Default from the menu
above.
Following are the steps to open the
Customer Defaults.
3.
The Customer Default is opened. Now we see the
First tab Payment Terms. In this we see different circle checks which
indicate the changes in Sales and these
are the Default settings through which we can adjust anything according to our
requirement.
C.O.D à
Cash On Delivery.. it means when the goods are delivered then the payment will
be done.
Prepaid à
It means the payment of goods is done in start and goods will be received
afterward.
Due in number of days à it means if any
customer buys goods via credit card and if he pays the total amount of the
goods within 10 days so he will get 2% discount. The discount rate and discount
in days can be changed according to our need .
Due on day of next
month à
it means money will be received in next month 7th day or any day
which we set by default.
Due at end of month
à it means if any
customer takes good from us and if he do the payment before the due date so he
will be given discount..and if he does not pay within month he will not get
discount.
Every Standard Term have its own terms and conditions ,which
changes by clicking on the different Standard Term.
As we can see the GL
sales Account , in this we can set the account by double clicking on the
space given in front of the GL Sales account.
And in the same way Discount GL Account we will double click
on it and write the same account ID which we write in the GL Sales Account.
4.
Now in the next Tab we go in Account Aging. In
this we see the age invoices of two types.
Due date
and invoice date.. it is our choice to select either Due Date or Invoice date.
5.
In Custom Fields we can edit the given 5 fields
according to our requirement. In the 5th field we can edit it and
write in it by clicking on the check-box Whatever changes we made in Customer
Default , its impact will be on the Maintain Customers/Prospects.
6.
In the Finance Charges we set the Finance
charges according to our company requirement. The following terms are fulfilled
to bring changes in the Maintain Customers/prospects.
We will click on the given check boxes for
implementation. And if we have not made Finance Charge GL Account then by double click
on the given space in front of the Finance Charge GL account we can make the
new account of it by giving I.D and account Type.
And if we want that if any customer does not pay on time and
Finance charges are been done so a line should be written on the statement
paper. We can edit and write the line whatever we want to.
The following window shows the making of Finance charges account.
7.
In the Pay
Methods we give the option to customers to do payment in different ways. Like in
cash, check, VISA card and etc.