Setup overview

After you complete the setup of the interfaced applications, you must set up the Franchise Management application. This table lists the required setup tasks you must accomplish. More information can be found in the additional noted resources.


Setup	Requirements	References
Calendar	Multiple calendars, having different frequencies, are now available for the same company in the same year. Multiple calendars enable dates to be calculated accurately for all charges. You must define a billing calendar for each calendar ID. Assign a calendar ID to each franchise company. The calendar ID defaults to customer contracts for billing purposes. You have the option of defining a sales calendar to store predefined dates used to record sales data if you select to aggregate sales.	See Creating a calendar ID, Defining a billing calendar, and Defining a sales calendar
Company Options	Company options are default values used to process data interfaced to the General Ledger and Billing applications. You define company options for each company in your organization.	See Defining company options.
Standard Charges	Charges are alphanumeric identifiers that represent the monetary amount invoiced for a line item on a sales entry. You define standard charges that franchisers can apply to standard contracts or customer contracts.	SeeDefining standard charges.
Standard Contracts	You define standard contracts to group a predefined set of standard charges that are assigned to contracts for a franchise management company.	SeeDefining standard contracts.
Customer Contracts	After you define standard contracts, you can use them to define customer contracts. A customer contract represents a franchise. You define a customer contract to associate an accounts receivable customer ship to location with the applicable Franchise Management company.	SeeDefining customer contracts.
Customer Contract Charges	You define customer contract charges that you assign to sales entries. Sales entries are records that contain sales data, such as the net sales amount, sales tax, and the corresponding contract charges for a given cycle date.	See Defining customer contract charges.