The Main tab provides general information about the settlement and the parties involved in settlement.
First of all, select Supplier Debt Assignment as the transaction type - this will bring up all the required fields for this transaction type.
On the Main tab, the following fields are required: Supplier, Supplier-Recipient, Entity.
The Mutual Settlement (create) form. The Main tab
<Auto> in the Number field indicates that an internal number for this document is assigned automatically when you save the document. The From field is populated automatically with the current business date. You can select another date, if necessary.
In the Entity field, select the entity of your organization which is responsible for the document. 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.
In the Supplier field, you can select a company (legal entity) that is your supplier.
In the Supplier-Assignee field, you can select a company (legal entity) to which the entity will transfer the debt.
In the Transaction Content field, specify why this document is created.
Use the Comment text box to enter any comments.
The document totals and other Information
At the bottom of the form, you can view who created this document and the current status of the document; it can be one of the following:
- New (document was created, but not recorded to the database)
- Not Posted (document was recorded, but not posted)
- Posted (document was posted)
- Marked for Deletion (document was marked to be deleted)
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After filling out 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.
For descriptions of other buttons, see Document Toolbar.