Maintain an Invoice

Use the AR Invoice Maintenance (RM) program to mark an invoice disputed, enter promised payment information, and change AR terms for an open invoice. See Background and Road Map for more information.

  1. Enter the customer's number, the customer's AR consolidation parent, or click the Lookup icon and use the standard lookup options to select the customer from a list.

    A program option controls whether or not zero balance invoices are listed. These fields are displayed:

Field Name

Displays

Invoice no

The invoice number

Tr no

001, which is the first transaction for this invoice

Trans

The date the transaction was entered

Tr cd

The transaction type:
CA: Credit adjustment
CM: Credit memo
DA: Debit adjustment
DI: Debit invoice
DM
: Debit memo
DP: Deposit
PY: On account payment
WO: Write-off

Order no

The sales order number

Cust PO number

The customer's purchase order number

Trans amount

The total amount of this transaction

Balance due

The amount due after this transaction

Disputed?

Y indicates that the invoice is disputed

Prom pmt

The date by which the customer has promised a payment

Promised amt

The amount of the payment promised by the customer

  1. Choose the appropriate options:

To

Do This

Display and/or change an invoice

Highlight the line and click Select or double click the line. See step 3.

Print the list of invoices

Click Print.

Display invoices for a different customer Click OK. See step 1.

Exit the program

Click Exit.

  1. Enter or change data in these fields:

Field Name

Type / Max Length

Action / Description

Cust PO number

Optional
12 alphanumeric

Enter a different purchase order number.

AR terms

Optional

Select the correct payment terms for this customer.

Disputed?

Optional

Select to mark this invoice disputed or leave blank if the invoice is not disputed.

Authority

Optional
8 alphanumeric

Enter the name or code of the person or department who authorized this action.

Reason code

Optional
5 alphanumeric

Select a code that explains the reason for the dispute.

Prom pmt date

Optional
10 date

Select the date by which the customer promised to pay this invoice.

Prom pmt amt

Optional
14 numeric in the format 999999999999.99

Enter the amount the customer promised to pay.

Promised by

Optional
35 alphanumeric

Enter the name of the person who promised this payment.

Phone number

Optional
20 numeric

Enter the phone number of the person who promised the payment.

Phone ext

Optional
5 numeric

Enter the phone extension of the person who promised the payment.

  1. Choose the appropriate options:

To

Do This

Display credit card payment information and additional details

Click Other info. The displayed data cannot be changed.

Enter or change notes for this invoice

Click Notes. See Enter or Change Notes.

Enter data in custom fields your company uses

Click User. See Enter Data in User or Shadow File Fields.

This button displays only if you have set up user fields for this program in the User Fields Maintenance (XMO) program.

Go to a related program

Click Jump. See Jump.

Display transactions for this invoice

Click Detail. See Display Invoice Transactions. Click OK to return to this program.

Display the sales order for this invoice

Click Order. See Display a Sales Order. Click OK to return to this program.

Display shipment lines for this invoice

Click Shipments. See Display Shipment Lines. Click OK to return to this program.

Reprint this invoice

Click Print and then:

Click

To

Single copy

Prints a single copy to the user's default device (or prompts if user option is to prompt for override).

All copies

Uses the document management system to print copies to specified devices and recipients

Back

End this action

Display due dates, amounts due, and payments or adjustments made

Click Payments.

This button displays only if the customer can make progress payments on this invoice.

Change bill-to address details

Click Address.

View or import documents associated with the order invoiced (e.g., sales order, acknowledgment, packing slip, etc.)

Click Documents.

  • Click View to view archived and imported documents, See Display Document Archive. The View button is active only if archived documents are available.

  • Click Import to import a document for this invoice.

See Document Archiving and Document Import for more information.

Accept changes leaving the invoice displayed

Click Apply.

Accept the data and return to the list of invoices

Click OK. See step 2.

Reject changes and return to the list of invoices

Click Cancel. See step 2.

Exit the program.

Click Exit.