This tab provides general information on a cash receipt: customer, cash account of the entity that receives the money, basis document, amount, applicable taxes, date, and so forth.
If you are manually creating this receipt, make sure that From Customer is selected in the Transaction Type field—this enables the fields appropriate for this transaction type.
On this tab, the following fields are required: Customer, Cash Flow Item, Amount, Entity, and Cash Account. 
The "Cash Receipt (create)" form. The Main tab
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<Auto> in the Number field indicates that a number to this document will be assigned automatically when you save the document.
The Date field is populated automatically with the current business date. You can select another date, if necessary.
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In the Amount field, specify the total amount of cash received from the customer. You can apply this amount to multiple documents of this customer on the Payment Details tab. The default currency appears with the effective exchange rate (with respect to the national currency) to the right of the field. The currency is defined according to the currency of the entity's selected cash account.
In the Emirate field, select the emirate related to the transaction. By default, the field is populated with the emirate selected for the entity on the Accounting > Master Data > Entities form, the Tax Accounting tab.
In the Taxation field, select one of the following options:
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In the Entity field, select an entity of your company for which this document is being prepared. The Entity field is available if the Multi-Company Accounting option is selected on: Administration > Settings> General Settings. You can select your personal default entity to appear in documents; for this, refer to Personal Settings. If you have not selected your default entity, the entity defined first will be used as the system default value.
The Basis field is auto-populated if this cash receipt was created on the basis of a document of the following types: Customer Order, Consignee Report, Fixed Asset Sale, or Invoice. If needed, you can manually select the basis document from the list of customer documents (for this, click Show all from the drop-down list). Once the basis document is selected, the data is copied to this cash receipt. If, after you edited the document, you want to cancel the edits, click the Fill in button – the details from the basis document will be copied to the receipt.
The Cash Account field shows the default cash account of the selected entity, however, you can select another cash account of the entity if needed.
In the Comment field you can specify some additional information.
The toolbar buttons
After entering some data on the tab, click the Save button to save your work. After filling out all the tabs, click Post to post the document without closing it or Post and close to post and close the document.
You can register a Tax Invoice for this cash receipt—first, you need to save the cash receipt—in one of the following ways:
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For descriptions of other buttons, see Document Toolbar.