Option 2: Creating actual invoice sales entries

Note: If a customer has no sales data for a cycle (such as a customer who runs a seasonal business), then you must create actual invoice sales entries.
  1. Access Sales Entry (FR20.1).
  2. Select the company, customer, ship to, contract number, and sales date for the actual invoice sales entries that you want to create.
  3. Select Actual Invoice in the Sales Type field.
  4. Use these guidelines to specify the field values on the Sales tab:
    Closing Sales

    You can specify the amount of sales. This is a user-defined monetary amount that is the sum of the opening register amount and subsequent sales amounts charged, up to the closing of the cycle.

    Less Sales Tax

    You can specify the sales tax amount submitted by the customer.

    Note: If you leave this field blank and the contract is defined for sales tax, you must specify the sales tax amount before you can add the sales entry.
    Auto Fill Submitted

    You can select whether the you must define submitted charges for the sales record, or they will be auto-filled.

    Note: If you select Yes, then the Auto Fill feature defaults the calculated charge amount into the Submitted field. If you select No, then the Submitted field will be blank except for note and predefined special charges.
    User Analysis

    To include values in the transaction header, then you can specify user analysis values, inserting a comma between each value.

    Another option is to use the Define (F6) function to open subform User Analysis Entry (SL40.5). Use this subform to select the user analysis values you want to include in the transaction.

    There are three conditions that affect how you can select user analysis values. See the User Analysis Entry (SL40.5) form help or the Strategic Ledger User Guide for additional information.

    Note: User analysis values are available for posting to the Strategic Ledger application when you add the actual invoice sales entry.
    Note: All contract charges with a next cycle date that matches the sales entry cycle date, default to the Detail tab where the Total Due is calculated and displayed.
  5. Select the Add form action to add the actual invoice sales entry.
  6. To override a calculated charge with a user-defined value, then select the Override line action on the Detail tab. See Overriding calculated charges.
  7. Use these guidelines to specify the field values on the Detail tab:
    Submitted Amount

    To override a calculated charge with a user-defined value, then select the Override line action.

    More button

    You can open User Analysis (FR20.2) to define user analysis information for a transaction line or to override the default information from the sales entry header.

    Note: After you release an actual invoice sales entry, you can run Invoice Interface (FR140) to create an invoice interface record.

    See Creating invoices.

  8. Select the Release form action to release the actual invoice sales entry and close the matching open estimate or call-in estimate, if one exists.