“MAINTAIN CUSTOMER RECORDS “
To maintain customer records we will open the Peachtree
Software. Then open the existing company and go to the maintain option and
select the customer/prospectus option as shown below:
A new window will appear
showing the information in which we can, change and store all information
about companies and people to whom you sell goods and services. You can also
enter information about companies and people with whom you would like to do
business. For customers, this includes information such as:
·
General
·
Sales draft
·
Payment details
·
Custom fields
·
History
To see any customer
information we will write the customer “ID” in the Customer header fields that are located above the folder tabs
of the Maintain customer/prospectus
window. This is where you enter lookup information about the customer
such as the customer ID, name, and status as shown below:
In
this we give customer information like
Address
Contact
number
E
mail address, fax, beginning balance etc
.
The next head that is sales defaults.
In this we have to
fill the information about
1 Sales Rep: If buyer is dealing through any sales person then this option
will help you to fill out by sales representative name.
2. GL sales Acct: This is general ledger sales account. In order to fill this
option you have to select “Sales Account” by clicking on the search button
which is next to the filling row and before this you need to verify that Sales
account is already exist in “Charts of Accounts”.
3. Open. P.O: This is the purchase order number of the customer.
4. Ship Via: here you can select the shipping medium that would be use as a
primary shipment to the relative customer.
Now we will select the payment tab:
In the payment tab customer is willing for
payments through Credit Card, then this tab needs to be filled at least by the
info Cardholder’s Name, Credit
card Number and Expiration Date.
After completing we
will go to the custom fields tab in which we can give the second contact,
reference, mailing list, multiple states.
After that we will go
to the history tab and the following window will appear showing the following
information:
Customer
Since: It is the date when you first made a sale to
the customer.
Last Invoice Date: This is the date of the last invoice you sent to the
customer.
Last Invoice Amt: This is the amount of the last invoice submit.
Last Payment Date: This is the date of the last payment you
received from the customer.
Last Payment Amount: This is the last payment amount you received
from the customer.
Last Statement Date: This is the date of the last statement you sent
to the customer.
HOW TO MAINTAIN
DEFAULT INFORMATION
First we open the Peachtree software and open our existing company. Then click
on the option “MAINTAIN”
Then open “COUSTMERS”
by clicking on” DEFAULT INFORMATION. This will appear.
Choose due in
number of days.
Fill the
necessary option. Credit limit will be according to due date. Like 2\10, n\30
As costumers
is related to sales fill the last option by sales.
Click on
option due date and move on.
Then costumer
field
Fill the
first blank with second contract and rest will remain same and move on.
Then in
FINANCE CHARGES
Fill the
finance charges according to you and due date.