This tab provides general information on a cash receipt: supplier, cash account of the entity, basis document, amount, applicable taxes, date, and so forth.
If you are manually creating this receipt, it is recommended that you first select From Supplier in the Transaction Type field—this enables the fields appropriate for this transaction type.
On this tab, the following fields are required: Supplier, Cash Flow Item, Amount, Entity, and Cash Account.

The "Cash Receipt (create)" form. The Main tab
In the Supplier field, specify a company or other legal entity from whom the payment is received. Select it from the Companies list.
<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.
In the Cash Flow Item field, specify the cash flow item associated with this supplier's returned funds to be able to analyze the cash flows.
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 one of the following types: Debit Note, or Input VAT Transaction. If needed, you can manually select the basis document from the list of supplier 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 Amount field, specify the amount of cash received from the supplier. You can apply this amount against supplier invoices on the Payment Details tab. By default, the receipt is in the currency of the cash account to which this amount is received. Information on the currency exchange rate with respect to the national currency is shown in the field to the right of the field.
In the Taxation field, select one of the following options:

• VAT Applied: If VAT is applicable to the receipt.
• Out of Scope: If the incoming payment is not taxable.
• Import: If the payment is related to import.

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 Credit Note Received for this cash receipt—first, you need to save the cash receipt—in one of the following ways:

• By providing the date and number of the document that was actually received from the supplier in the fields at the bottom of the form and clicking the Generate Tax Credit Note Received button at the bottom of the form. All the details from this cash receipt will be copied to the tax credit note received.
• By clicking Generate on the toolbar and then selecting Tax Credit Note Received from the drop-down list of options. In the document that appears, you will need to specify the information about the actually received document: the document number and date.

For other button descriptions, see Document Toolbar.