This tab provides general information on a cash receipt: cash amount, cash account of the entity that receives the cash from retail sales, basis document, and so forth.

If you are manually creating this receipt, make sure that From Retail Sales is selected in the Transaction Type field—this enables the fields appropriate for this transaction type.

On this tab, the following fields are required: Cash Flow Item, Amount, Entity, and Cash Account.

The "Cash Receipt (create)" form. The Main tab

<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 cash flow to able to analyze the cash flows later.

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: Invoice, Consignee Report. If needed, you can manually select the basis document from the list of available 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 total amount, received from retail sales in the currency of the cash account. The default currency appears with the effective exchange rate (with respect to the national currency) to the right of the field. The default currency and exchange rate are shown to the right of field.

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.

For descriptions of other buttons, see Document Toolbar.